How does anesthesia work? What happens when you go ‘under’?

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How does anesthesia work? What happens when you go ‘under’?

In: Biology

Answer 1

[They don’t actually know.](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228402-300-banishing-consciousness-the-mystery-of-anaesthesia/)

We know that it works, but we don’t know exactly why.

Did you know that the same sort of stuff they use on humans will essentially do the same thing to plants? You can anaesthetise a Venus Fly Trap, and it will stop responding to a fly walking into it. The plant is not harmed in any way, and the anesthetic will wear off like it does in humans.