Spit and Make It Better - Natural-born painkillers in human saliva.

[Dover]

Natural-born painkiller found in human saliva
22:00 13 November 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Andy Coghlan

Saliva from humans has yielded a natural painkiller up to six times more powerful than morphine, researchers say.

The substance, dubbed opiorphin, may spawn a new generation of natural painkillers that relieve pain as well as morphine but without the addictive and psychological side effects of the traditional drug.

When the researchers injected a pain-inducing chemical into rats’ paws, 1 gram of opiorphin per kilogram of body weight achieved the same painkilling effect as 3 grams of morphine.

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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10514

[cspanlovr]

1. Will wonders never cease? Thanks for posting this.

[Jed Dilligan]

2. gllbblblbl bbblllllnmm mmgbbbllllblll

That's the sound of Rush Limbaugh swallowing furiously at the news.

[Dover]

4. LMAO!!!!!

Good one.

[Richard D]

3. I wonder if that is the reason . . .

. . . why the first thing people tend to do when they cut their hands is to put it into their mouth?

[nodular]

9. Probably the "conscious" reason

Physically, I suspect spit has medicinal properties, though I
don't know if they've been discovered.

[Union Thug]

5. geez...how do I harvest this stuff? :-)

[democrat_patriot]

6. Where's the follow up article on how to produce it?

How did they even find it?

[Dover]

7. Quick, let's corner the market on spitoons!

Actually the rest of the article says that these molecules are so simple that they should be able to produce them synthetically.

[catnhatnh]

8. I don't care HOW good this stuff is.....

....I'm leavin' the spitoons for Rush...Drink up, Big Boy...

[Marblehead]

10. Hoc-a-lugey

[bemildred]

11. One milligram per kilogram, not one gram per kilogram.

One gram per Kg is a huge dose. One mg per Kg is one millionth part by weight.