The most toxic substance to humans? (It’s basically botox)
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Therapeutic Uses of Toxins
Current research is looking at how to target cells that send pain signals and use that to reduce pain in lieu of like opioids or other addictive pain relieving medicine. So you could inject this in after maybe a surgery or something similar where you'll have a long term pain reduction until your body can recover, but it's not addictive. And so there was time for the muscle to come back and relax. It's crazy to me too, like something that toxic could actually be. It could actually have that beneficial of an application.
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