How Medicines Work in the Body

Have you ever wondered how a tiny tablet can help your headache

fever or infection

After you swallow it the tablet travels through your food pipe into your stomach

The tablet begins to dissolve

releasing its medicine completely in the intestine

Most medicines are absorbed in the small intestine

From there your blood carries them throughout your body

Different medicines work in different ways They don't know where to go Instead

they travel everywhere in the bloodstream

but only work where they find the right target Medicines don't have a

GPS Your bloodstream

carries them throughout your body and they work only where the right target is