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The Best Natural Pain Relievers

05 August 2006

Can more natural alternatives to NSAIDs really make the pain go away?

Most of us have had the experience of being in pain at some time or other in our lives. Often, it is connected with illness, when it can be acute but transient. Sometimes, it is ‘purposeful pain’, such as the pain of childbirth. But, for a surprisingly large number of people, pain of either known or unknown origin is a regular feature in their lives - something known as ‘chronic pain’.

If you have had an ache or pain lasting for more than three months, then you are one of the millions of people with chronic pain. The latest figures show that chronic pain affects over 20 per cent of people - mostly adults - worldwide (JAMA, 1998; 280: 147-51).

As well as being relentlessly uncomfortable, chronic pain clouds the way you think and feel about yourself and life in general. Pain is rarely a symptom on its own (Lancet, 1999; 353: 2233-7), but is often associated with fatigue, slee...

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