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Chili-pepper painkiller may make trip to dentist less numbing

Drooling after dental work may become a thing of the past, according to Harvard researchers who have developed a shot from chili peppers that appears to stop pain without numbness. A combination of capsaicin, the natural compound that makes chili peppers hot, and a derivative of the local anesthetic lidocaine blocked pain-sensing nerve cells without interfering ...

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