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Hi, I would like to know that Practin medicine is a weight gain medicine or not?
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No. Practin or the chemical periactin is cyproheptadine and is an antihistamine, basically. It somehow increases the appetite which is side effect of the drug, in reality. When the appetite increases the person can overeat and gain more weight and therefore promoted as weight gain tablet in a wrong way although for good.
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