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alcohol's analgesic effect

  • 28-09-2009 9:34pm
    #1
    opinion guy
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    Hey ppl.

    Anyone know what the mechanism of action of alcohol as an analgesic is ?


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  • #2
    opinion guy
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    Anybody ?

    Reason I ask is because I've often found a few stiff drinks works better for me at relieving pain than pain killers do. Have also heard the same from other people. Yet when I searched I could find nothing on it.

    Then there was this article on bbc about alcohol potentially having a role in treatment of brain injury due to supposed anti-inflammatory effect
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8262393.stm

    I'm curious as to whether alcohol has analgesic/anti-inflammatory effect all of its own seperate to pathways of things like NSAIDS etc.


  • #3
    tallaght01
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    Please don;t just keep bumping threads. If people know, then they'll tell you. Why don't you do a lit search?


  • #4
    opinion guy
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    Well I did a lit search before psoting and didn't find anything hugely revealing.

    But I did just stumble across this video that kinda gives me some answers:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8304655.stm?ls


  • #5
    bleg
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    I don't know what causes it but I know I love it!!


  • #6
    siobhan.murphy
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    hot whiskey only thing for a cold


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  • #7
    dloob
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    I don't know much about how it works, but it used to be used as for surgery before more effective anesthetic

    A quick look around suggests it inhibits GABA which supresses the nervous system.


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