Some medications are used not only for medicinal purposes, but also in economic situations. Such universal remedies include ammonia. Its use in everyday life is much wider than in medicine. What properties does this tool have and in what situations can it be used?
Description
Ammonia is ammonia. Its use in liquid solution has been known since ancient times. It looks like ordinary water, but has a pungent and specific odor. In large quantities, ammonia is toxic, but in small doses it can be used as an irritant and irritant.
It is necessary to distinguish ammonia (ammonium chloride) and ammonia (this is ammonia). The use in everyday life and in medicine is associated with a second remedy.
Like a pharmaceutical
- When inhaled, ammonia acts on the respiratory tract receptors, awakening the respiratory center. With receptors, excitation is transmitted through the fibers of the nervous system. Reflexively it affects the functioning of the cardiovascular system. Therefore, ammonia is often used for fainting and alcohol poisoning. It should be used with caution. Frequent inhalation of ammonia in high concentrations can cause spasm and respiratory arrest.
- Use of this substance orally in small amounts causes vomiting.
- Also, ammonia is known for its distracting property in neuralgia. In practice, this happens like this. The drug is applied to the skin. Absorbed through skin-visceral reflexes, it irritates tissues, taking on a wave of inflammatory processes. Meanwhile, the recovery of the diseased muscle occurs. Thus, ammonia suppresses the focus of excitation, eliminates pain and vascular spasm.
- Due to its irritating properties when applied to the skin, it promotes the expansion of blood vessels, the release of active substances and improves tissue nutrition and regeneration.
- Like any other alcohol, ammonia has an antiseptic effect. It is used for insect bites, panaritiums and boils. However, its prolonged use for these purposes due to irritating properties can cause local pain, swelling and hyperemia.
- Sometimes ammonia in combination with other elements is used as an expectorant. Influencing the epithelium of the respiratory tract, it enhances the work of the glands. This contributes to the rapid release of sputum.
At home
Whatever medical properties ammonia possesses, its use in everyday life is much more relevant and wider. Most often it is useful in removing stains from clothes and upholstered furniture, when cleaning gold, silver and even plumbing items. However, its unique properties have not yet been fully studied by experienced housewives, and their practical experiments have shown that the solution can also be used in the fight against harmful insects (for example, cockroaches, ants).
Useful Tips
There are a huge number of economic problems that ammonia can handle. Its domestic use is not limited.
Cleaning clothes, shoes, furniture
To remove a difficult stain from your favorite thing, textile shoes or furniture upholstery, you need to combine a couple of teaspoons of ammonia with a glass of water and pour the stain with this solution for a while. Then rinse (rinse) in cold water. The smell of the product will soon disappear, and there will be no trace of the spot.
Insect repellent
When removing cockroaches, a small amount of ammonia should be added to the water for cleaning floors, walls and furniture (1 tsp per liter of water). A pungent and unpleasant odor will drive away uninvited guests forever, if such a procedure is carried out regularly, once a week.
To prevent outdoor recreation from being spoiled by annoying mosquitoes and other insects, it is worth taking ammonia solution (in its pure form) and spray it on the recreation site. After such processing, not a single midge will not bother.
Washing windows and utensils
The use of ammonia solution in the purification of crystal and windows has been known for a long time. For this, 4-5 drops are added per liter of water and glass surfaces are wiped with this solution. Even old and yellowed stains can not resist such a cleanser.
From odors
No matter how paradoxical this may sound, ammonia successfully fights against extraneous and unpleasant “aromas” of paint or tobacco. Use in the home from the smell is very simple. In all rooms, it is necessary to arrange the saucers, dropping on them a certain amount of funds. Soon, unpleasant odors will begin to disappear.
What is dry ammonia?
There is also a technical ammonia, or, in scientific terms, ammonium salt. In addition to the name, other are the properties that dry ammonia possesses. Its application is in demand in technology and chemistry. For example, when soldering or tinning (applying molten tin to metal products in order to protect against corrosion). Also, ammonia (powder) is used as a hardener for varnishes, glues.
Interesting Facts
- As an antiseptic, ammonia solution (0.5%) surgeons treat their hands before surgery.
- The human body in the process of complex chemical compounds can itself produce ammonia. The reason for this is the deamination (decomposition) of amino acids. This process is regulated by the body itself by eliminating ammonia through urine. At the same time, it acquires a characteristic smell. As a rule, the process of deamination is preceded by starvation or dehydration of the body.
- Some indoor and garden plants (lilies, clematis, geraniums, cucumbers) are very fond of dressing with ammonia. A wonderful fertilizer is prepared at the rate of 50 grams of ammonia per four liters of water.
- Previously, technical ammonia was used as a diuretic. However, the toxicity of the powder and the rapid development of medicine supplanted it and replaced it with other, safe and effective drugs.