Effective at relieving or preventing neuralgia, a sharp pain that follows the course of a nerve.
From 'anti-' (against) + 'neuralgic' (from Greek 'neuron' meaning nerve + 'algos' meaning pain). Medical term that developed as doctors treated nerve pain conditions.
Antineuralgic remedies were among the earliest painkillers used in medicine—aspirin and compounds like quinine were valued for their ability to ease nerve pain long before we understood exactly how they worked.
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