Why is Alcohal used most of the time to numb someone's pain?
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Well, alcohol doesn't actually numb pain.  I've always laughed at the western movies or shows where Doc attempts to remove a bullet from some guy and tells him to take a swig of whiskey because it's really going to hurt.\n\nDistilled liquor is more likely to be used as an antiseptic than anesthesia when you have limited resources.\n\nAdditionally, since alcohol can temporarily relax the muscle system, some injuries may not be immediately noticed until you're sober the next day.
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It is therapeutic. It allows endorphines to be released into your system that provide a calming and numbing effect. Once you are calm, the pain of the sorrow begins to ease. \n\nThis is why women who are going through tough times with a spouse, friend, kids, life will sometimes rent a good "cry" movie. Something about crying seems to just "get it all out" and then you can move on with life the next day.
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Use a mixture of essential oils of peppermint, helichrysum, clove, wintergreen, lavader, and euclyptus. These all have pain numbing effects that can be used in long timeframes without any negative side effects. Additionally if you have bad muscle tension this will helpwith that too, this mixture doesn't only numb pain but it helps achieve a balnce in your muscular system so you heal up whats causeing the pain. Also if youend up being sensitive to the oil mixture wash it off with olive or almond oil, DO NOT USE WATER!!! Water pushes the oil further into the skin where as the vegetable oils will dilute them. Its rare to have reactions, but if you do use less of the oil or dilute it before application with either of the before mentioned vegetable oils. Hope this works for oyu.
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People who can't deal with life issues, often turn to food, drink and drugs to make the pain go away.  That's addiction.  Besides not turning to those things for comfort anymore, you do have to get therapy as well.  Learn how to handle life's problems without using things to numb the pain.  Because once the food, drugs and booze are gone---the problems are still there and usually worse.
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This is a bad idea.  Both have similar effects and enhance each other.  This is a good way to end up in the hospital or an early grave.  Depressant/sedative drugs should not be mixed with other drugs or alcohol
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fast and cheap = rubbing alcohal
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Its comman problem. in my experince most of patients do well with analgesic NSAID and antispasmodic like buscopan.
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It was developed as a substitute for morphine - hence the name. It was the drug for heros in pain. \nThe advantage to other opitates for treatment of pain is that it doesn't constipate as bad and it doesn't make the patient all fuzzy and dopey as bad either(you need less of it since it is several times stronger than morhine). It is no more addictive as other opiates when given under medical care for pain treatment. \nBut it is a Schedule 1 drug these days and cannot be used for medical purposes (at least in the US, it IS being used in the UK as a medical drug).
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Lidocaine will numb the area.But you need a prescription for it.
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You can absorb someones pain if you have that talent, but you can't really release all of it. So in doing it, some of your own energy will be used up.It will be as though you had gone through the pain yourself.
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Extremely. These are usually made from solvents like Xylene. Just the smell can give you a head ache. Not to mention cancer causing. most immediately burning sensation. permanent blindness.
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Pain is the signal for you not to move the affetced part. There is a hormone called endorphin which is a bodies own pain killer. When you are active or awake this hormone level in the blood is high and you feel less pain, but when you become tired or go to sleep the hormone level goes down and you feel more pain. And the other cause is the production of toxins, in the night body tissues start to regenerate to heel the wound or to replace the damaged tissue, in this process cells uses a lot of energy and produces toxins as by products including substance P which is a potent pain mediator. To have a nice sleep, sleep in cold enviorment. Never try hot water packs ain affetced parts ehen you go to bed.
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I'm sorry for what you've had to undergo. I broke my back (L1, L3 & L4) several years ago in an auto accident. As a result, I had burning sensations in my lower back & leg. I know it's not a natural or alternative therapy, but my Doctor prescribed a medicine called Elavil or amytriptoline that blocks out that burning sensation. I was on that for several years & then switched over to another medicine called Neurontin which also blocks nerve damage pain. Good luck.
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Talk to a doctor! An answer like the first one will only make you terrified, and it's not even true. \nWhile pain is common in late stage cancer, IT CAN BE CONTROLLED! Any hospice or your oncologist can put someone who suffers from serious pain on a on-demand pump that will deliver a dose of opiate and will control pain. \nMy mother died of cancer last year and she had one of those pumps. With it she was not in pain any more and could die at home.
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It helps you fall asleep when you're in pain.  That is what the commercial says and the bottle.
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I know people who have it for chronic (ha ha) back pain, insomnia and high anxiety.  Cancer patients may receive it to stimulate their appetite and calm some of the pain of chemo therapy.  Glaucoma patients may use it, as well, to calm pain.
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Where there is pain... there is a desire to numb that pain. If she can't find the cause of her suffering she will seek out substances that will help her forget about it. \n\nI wish her luck!