A Novel Analgesic Isolated from a Traditional Chinese Medicine

Research conducted through a collaboration between scientists at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has identified a compound within the plant Corydalis yanhusuo with unique anti-pain properties. Dr. Olivier Civelli of UCI and Dr. Xinmiao Liang of CAS have tested the traditional Chinese medicine using modern scientific techniques and have shown that