Capsaicin can effectively relieve surgical pain

Oct 17
09:19

2012

David Yvon

David Yvon

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Speaking of the feeling of chili accidentally get on the wound, many people were scared, some local people even described the feeling as devil's revenge. But the researchers found that often responsible for the feeling of induction persistent pulsating pain - headache throbbing pain - nerve cell receptor TRPV1 is very easy to combined with capsaicin in peppers, when this combination occurs, the perception of the nerves of the heat generated reaction, so we feel the "burning", but at the same time, a lot of calcium into the nerve cells, until the nerve cells lose response, this time, the corresponding parts will become "numb".

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Apply the corresponding principle,Capsaicin can effectively relieve surgical pain Articles scientists recently conducted a study, use pepper as painkillers to ease the pain of the patient after the surgery, the preliminary results show the effectiveness of this method is very good.

This study may sounds incredible, but the doctors say, while a lot of people eat chili, the first feeling is the tongue bad as acupuncture, but when spicy up to a certain extent, the tongue will numbness, and no longer have any feeling. The doctors pointed out that this is because peppers contain capsaicin, capsaicin’s stimulation caused feeling. The doctors said "it is exactly what we want to take advantage of this numbness to ease the patient's pain". The researchers said that, in fact, hundreds of years ago people have been use pepper as pharmaceutical raw materials, cream containing chili ingredients have occurred many years ago, used to relieve muscle pain. For surgical patients, capsaicin therapy is more effective. They are inject the anesthetic before surgery so they feel less burning sensation of capsaicin, after the anesthetic subsided, capsaicin’s numbness also make them could not feel the pain of the wound.

Currently, the researchers are further verification and study on the results of their research in order to determine the effectiveness of this therapy, they are through experiments on patients to observe the analgesic effect of capsaicin. Researchers try to use purified capsaicin near the surgical site in patients undergoing knee and hip surgery, the results showed that capsaicin can significantly reduce post-operative pain. Now it seems that capsaicin can well resist the pain of the wound. 3 days after surgery, patients who use capsaicin feel more relaxed than those patients use general anesthetic.

Doctors have pointed out that the use of capsaicin is expected to significantly reduce patients' dependency on painkillers. Because of the anesthetic potency subsided after surgery, many patients resort to painkillers. However in all the ainkillers, a large part are controversial drugs, such as morphine. The side effects of these painkillers is relatively large, tend to give patients with adverse reactions. If capsaicin finally can be developed as a drug to help patients relieve pain, then it will bring the Gospel to thousands of surgery patients. Its effects is both durable and very safe, not like anesthetic to bring the whole body numb. However, the capsaicin supplier warned that capsaicin pain relief is limited to professionals in the use of surgical anesthesia, and must be using purified capsaicin.

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