This Chemical Is So Hot It Destroys Nerve Fibers—in a Good Way

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This Chemical Is So Hot It Destroys Nerve Fibers—in a Good Way
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This cactus-like plant is 4.5 million times hotter than a jalapeño. And while chewing it would lay you up, it could become an opioid alternative. (From 2018) 🥵

, and 45,000 times hotter than the hottest of habaneros, and 4.5 million times hotter than a piddling little jalapeno., aka the resin spurge, is not to be eaten. Just to be safe, you probably shouldn’t even look at it.

So if you wanted to treat knee pain, you could directly inject RTX into the knee tissue. You’d anesthetize the patient first, of course, since the resulting pain would be intense. But after a few hours, that pain wears off, and you end up with a knee that’s desensitized to pain. Here RTX is working on the same principle as if you injected it straight into a specific area of concern like a knee. But because it’s injected more centrally, it delivers widespread pain relief. "For many of the cancer patients, we need to have the drug remove pain from a lot of different regions," says Iadarola. "So we give it into a compartment where the nerves to the lower half of the body are gathered together.

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