Fioricet is a brand of medicine that contains few different kinds of drugs, acetaminophen, butalbital and caffeine. It is typically used to relieve headaches, muscle pain, and other types of pain. Acetaminophen is a fever reducing agent and pain reliever. Barbiturates are a class of medications that includes butalbital. It relieves tension headaches by relaxing muscular spasms. Caffeine is a stimulant for the central nervous system, and it improves blood flow by relaxing muscular spasms in blood vessels.
Fioricet is a brand of medicine that contains few different kinds of drugs, acetaminophe

Fioricet is a medication that combats symptoms of migraines, cluster headaches. Tension headaches are also controlled with this medication. The combination of acetaminophen, caffeine and butalbital produces a synergistic effect providing greater pain relief than that found with the single components.

Butalbital is combined with other medicines to treat headaches or tension headaches. Butalbital is combined with components such as acetaminophen and Caffeine to improve its action. Acetaminophen decreases headache pain and caffeine helps in increasing its effect.