What are the medicinal effects of botox?

Many: Botox was developed to treat a condition called blepharospasm, or uncontrolled twitching of the eyelids. Now it's used to treat migraines, muscle spasms, sweating and even anal fissures.

Muscle: It can paralyze muscles. So any disease cause by hyperactive muscles. It can help. Ie jaw grinding, blepharospasm, anal muscle hypertrophy, sphincter hypertrophy, esophageal spasms, migraines(muscles compress on surrounding nerves is the theory).

Growing numbers: Botox works to make target muscles weak. It has been shown to control migraine or tension headaches due to forehead muscle spasm, neck sprains/strains like torticollis , limb spasticity, areas of muscular tension, dystonias, bladder spasms, spasmodic dysphonia-voice muscle spams with voice changes. Botox has shown promise in healing anal fissures by relaxing the anal sphincter.

Uses of Botox: Botox is a muscle paralytic used for aesthetic improvement of wrinkles, excessive sweating, migraines, and some esophageal problems.

Weaken muscles: All maladies for which Botox is used relies on the muscle weakening effects of Botox.