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Chilli compound fires painkiller |
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Thursday, 04 October 2007 02:00 |
 " A chemical from chilli peppers may be able to kill pain without affecting touch or movement.
This might in theory mean a woman in labour could have an epidural without losing the ability to move her legs, or the sensation of her baby being born.
Conventional local anaesthetics affect all nerve cells.
But the researchers Harvard team, writing in Nature, said that with capsaicin, the chilli chemical, they can target just pain receptors. "
.... Read the rest of this article from "BBC News" at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7026443.stm
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