The ideal analgesic would provide localised pain relief in small doses with minimal side-effects.
The roots, leaves and berries of Belladonna worked as an analgesic and sometimes rather too well as a sedative.
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What we can least afford is the Analgesic State, and the fears that it so dearly indulges.
Most of the painkilling effects of codeine are due to some of it being converted to the strong opioid analgesic, morphine.
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Opium contained in the traditional breed of poppy has been used by people all over the world for hundreds of years as an effective analgesic.
The point is that if excessive debt is the disease, what we've had since the end of 2008 is analgesic and sticking plaster, rather than cure.
"Every major drug company is looking into new or better analgesic or pain medications, " says Sean Mackey, assistant professor of anesthesia and pain management at Stanford University.
Triptans, opioids, ergots or combination analgesic medications on 10 days a month or more or paracetamol, aspirin or an NSAID (anti-inflammatory such as ibuprofen) on 15 days a month or more.
He suggested the analgesic effect may work in combination "with other toxins that prevent the prey from getting away" or may just affect different animals, such as birds, differently to mice.
He was sentenced to prison for falsifying research data purportedly demonstrating the efficacy of analgesic medications sold by Pfizer, Merck, and Wyeth that were published in dozens of journals before his fabrications were uncovered.
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But not every analgesic herbal is represented.
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The three-member state board cited infractions including syringes containing an analgesic and sedative found in Dutrow's desk and an analgesic found in the urine of his horse Fastus Cactus in November 2010 after it won at Aqueduct Racetrack.
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