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3428596 No.3428596 [Reply] [Original]

How do drugs 'target pain'?

>> No.3428603

the same way blindfolds "target light."

>> No.3428608

there are different types
paracetamol works on the nervous system
cox-2 inhibs inhibit cyclooxygenase which reduces inflammation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analgesic

>> No.3428611

>>3428596
easy, they just don't lead it very much.

>> No.3430272

bump

>> No.3430295

>>3428596

Pain is the perception of a physical process
Interfere with that process
Interfere with pain and
>magnets

>> No.3430299

By making you feel so good you don't notice the pain.

At least that's what opoids do

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3430308

>>3430295
>magnets that interfere with pain
>copper magnetic bracelet!

I swear the people who sell these made them out of copper just to get additional laughs at the people who actually buy them. No, don't make them out of iron or nickel, let's take the implausibility right over the top, right there in the name.

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>>3430295

>> No.3430322

>>3430308
COPPER IS LITERALLY LESS MAGNETIC THEN THE FUCKING VACUUM OF NOTHING HOW FUCKING DUMB DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO BUY SOMETHING WITH A RELATIVE PERMEABILITY LESS THAN ZERO AND CALL IT MAGNETIC

>> No.3430324

>>3430322
I WAS SO ANGRY I MIXED UP UNITY AND NULL

>> No.3430364

>>3428596
The pain is in your mind. They target that.

>> No.3430473

>>3430322
It works by faith.

>> No.3430507

It's actually quite interesting. All pain pills are dissolving tablets full of water. Once you take it you trick yourself into thinking it makes you feel better. It's all one big conspiracy. 9/11. Now that you know they will never work again.

>> No.3432278

bump

>> No.3432282

>>3430507
then why does tylenol damage the liver?

>> No.3432289

>>3432282

It's placebo damage.