hypnotic

In smaller doses these drugs could be used as an anti-anxiety medication, in larger doses as an anesthetic. A patient scheduled for surgery will often be given a valium or xanax to generally relax their mind and body for the procedure.

They are split up into two fundamental categories:

• Barbiturate
• Benzodiazepine

Such hypnotic things:
Teiji Furuhashi.
Fela Kuti.
Franz Kafka.
DJ Krush.
ambient.
Ravi Shankar.
Kraftwerk.
Future Sound of London.

Hyp*not"ic (?), a. [Gr. inclined to sleep, putting to sleep, fr. to lull to sleep, fr. sleep; akin to L. somnus, and E. somnolent: cf. F. hypnotique.]

1.

Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

2.

Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.

© Webster 1913.

Hyp*not"ic, n.

1.

Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.

2.

A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.

© Webster 1913.