'Mint' pain killer takes leaf out of ancient medical texts
...ng the skin, and traditional Chinese remedies used mint oil to the same end. Now scientists have discovere...ooling chemicals which have the same properties as mint oil have a dramatic pain-killing effect when applied in small doses to the skin. Unlike conventional......to relieve pain, and many traditional remedies use mint oil for relieving pain, but it is only now, in the 21st century, that a mechanism for such analgesic effects has been identified. In their new work, the researchers looked for ways to relieve chronic pain in rats, and they found that certain cooli...