Your reply to this thread is interesting and fun to read toe, but let us not forget that intrinsic in the spirit and existence of this forum is the collective experience that "8 years of schooling to learn these things" has not always pulled through for us.

I hope you have never had an experience where you are stuck in excruciating pain without assistance, much less for any lenght of time. I hope you never, ever will. Thoes who have however, may feel differently.

I don't think it far fetched to concider a pain remedy to have on hand - not to stock pile - that may work on the nervous system a bit more effectively than ibupropen or alka seltzer.

Take care.