15SW18 - Analgesia: The Search for Effective Pain Relief Format:Audio Traditional uses of the widespread

Traditional uses of the widespread mesquite tree include the use of the seedpods for food

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This talk reviews the published information about arsenic and its differing forms (really bad and not very bad at all)

The species listed in this lecture have been with us at for least 2 millennia

15SW18 - Analgesia: The Search for Effective Pain Relief Format:Audio Traditional uses of the widespreadSpeaker: David Winston. While herbs are not as powerful as opiates and other pharmaceutical medications, they can offer safer and often highly effective pain management. In this talk we discuss how specific herbs can relieve specific types of pain, how to combine herbs to create a synergistic effect which reduces inflammation, pain perception and spasm, and how botanicals can enhance the effects of common pharmaceutical pain medications.