What is/are Anafranil tablets?
ANAFRANIL, a chemical cousin of tricyclic antidepressant medications such as Tofranil and Elavil, is used to treat people who suffer from obsessions and compulsions. An obsession is a persistent, disturbing idea, image, or urge that keeps coming to mind despite the person’s efforts to ignore or forget it–for example, a preoccupation with avoiding contamination. A compulsion is an irrational action that the person knows is senseless but feels driven to repeat again and again – for example, hand-washing perhaps dozens or even scores of times throughout the day. Sustained-release (SR), extended-release (ER, XR, or XL), time-release or timed-release, controlled-release (CR), or continuous-release (CR or Contin) pills are tablets or capsules formulated to dissolve slowly and release a drug over time. The advantages of sustained-release tablets or capsules are that they can often be taken less frequently than instant-release formulations of the same drug, and that they keep steadier levels
