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Steve Wolstenholme writes:
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| How does it work? Is this it? I would suspect that the capsaicin
| burning pain causes neurons to get a bit low on some neurotransmitter.
| The burning pain fades away and there is still a reduction in the
| neurotransmitter. Not a lot left to tell the brain about the
| post-herpetic neuralgia caused by the shingles.

That's right, at least according to the Web.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.