Brazilian herbal tea effective for pain relief

An article on the BBC news pages reports that scientists have confirmed that a traditional herbal remedy used in Brazil for thousands of years for relieving pain, is as effective as a commercially available synthetic pain reliever, Indometacin.

Researchers travelled to Brazil to study how the medicine was used there traditionally, in order to carry out a fair comparison.

Of course the researchers are not interested in the herb. According to the article they want to identify 'the molecule' in order to develop a new analgesic for the future.