Valium is a medicine which is used to treat insomnia, anxiety, symptoms of acute alcohol or opiate withdrawal, epilepsy and all types of seizures either partial seizures or seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome which may include myoclonic, atonic, mental absence etc.
Valium is the most widely used trade name for Diazepam. It is best known name for this drug. Diazepam was developed and introduced by Leo Sternbach of the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann-La Roche in early 1960s and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in 1963. It is the benzodiazepine class of drugs.
Valium is the best and most widely used and prescribed drug for reducing tension and anxiety. Over the years, neurologists,psychiatrists and physicians have discovered many off-label uses of valium such as palliative treatment of stiff-person syndrome, treatment of spastic paresis etc. Diazepam is most often used together with another antiepileptic drug. It is sometimes used in emergency situations and can also be used for other conditions such as depression, anxiety, acute alcohol withdrawal etc.
Anxiety and depression is normally associated with daily normal life which may be eradicate through the use of Valium (Diazepam). Valium may prove very much useful in acute alcohol withdrawal which causes impending or acute delirium, hallucinations and tremors. Diazepam is also used for the treatment of epilepsy. It is sometimes used with the combination of other medicines. Diazepam is also used before certain medical procedures for reducing anxiety or depression such as before surgical process for inducing amnesia. Diazepam is also naturally found in many plants such as wheat and potato which contain huge amount of naturally occurring diazepam and other benzodiazepines.
Valium is much safer to use. It is most prescribed medicine for the treatment of anxiety, insomnia, epilepsy, alcohol withdrawal affects and depression because of its safer use.
