What is ergotamine?
Answer:
A vasoconstrictor used to prevent/cure migraines.
See materials:
Ergotamine is used to treat migraine headaches and cluster headache. Both types of headaches are thought to be cause by an increase in the diameter of the blood vessel in the chief, which results in more blood flow, increased pressure on immediate tissues, and pain. Ergotamine is a vasoconstrictor; it act by constricting (narrowing) the blood vessels.
a drug originally derived from the ergot fungus that constricts blood vessel and has be used since the 1920's to treat migraine headaches.
LSD precursor, but see out for that desosyxphiation!! tsk!