Compound Offers Pain Relief without the Complications

By Philip Ball of Nature magazine Chemists have succeeded in synthesizing a natural compound that shows promise as a painkiller–and might not cause the side effects that bedevil analgesics currently used to treat acute and chronic conditions. Conolidine is found in the bark of the tropical flowering shrub Tabernaemontana divaricata , commonly called the pinwheel flower. [More]

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Compound Offers Pain Relief without the Complications