Abstract: The invention relates to methods for inducing analgesia (or even anesthesia) and for prevention or amelioration of damage caused by ischemic or traumatic injury of tissues in general, but especially neural, for the central nervous system being the most vulnerable of all tissues, by the systemic administration of a therapeutically effective amount of primarily taurine, and secondarily homotaurine and/or methionine for a sufficient period of time (several hours to a few days, depending on the severity of the injury, and timing when therapy is initiated from the time of injury) to allow recovery from the original insult or from phenomena that follow the initial injury.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for inducing analgesia (or even anesthesia) and for prevention or amelioration of damage caused by ischemic or traumatic injury of tissues in general, but especially neural, for the central nervous system being the most vulnerable of all tissues, by the systemic administration of a therapeutically effective amount of primarily taurine, and secondarily homotaurine and/or methionine for a sufficient period of time (several hours to a few days, depending on the severity of the injury, and timing when therapy is initiated from the time of injury) to allow recovery from the original insult or from phenomena that follow the initial injury.

Abstract: A pulsatile flow delivery apparatus includes a horse shoe shaped raceway, a tube, a milking mechanism, an occlusive clamp and a control device. The tube is disposed along the raceway. The milking mechanism has a pivot shaft, a rotating arm fixedly secured to the shaft and one milking roller rotatably mounted on one end of the rotating arm. The occlusive clamp has a stationary component, a mobile component disposed in opposed relation to the stationary component, and an actuator connected to the mobile component for moving the mobile component toward and away from the stationary component to clamp and release the downstream portion of the tube. The timing of opening and closing of the occlusive clamp is controlled by the control device to produce a pulsatile flow.