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Chinese scientists have found a new chemical compound in the venom of a centipede native to China that can act as a painkiller with no negative side effects like those associated with morphine.
The discovery could potentially help a country's military reduce its reliance on morphine for battleground injuries, or even create an army of soldiers with the ability to fight on after sustaining wounds in combat, pundits say.
"It is completely different from morphine," said Professor Lai Ren, the lead scientist of the study.
"Morphine is only intended for emergency use. It has many side effects and can lead to addiction over the longer-term," added Lai, who works with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Kunming Institute of Zoology in southern Yunnan province.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @08:04AM
Black Meat? Opium. Delerium. British pushers of drugs from Afghanistan to China. Laudanum. Morphine is just more refined, and Heroin only has the nasty bits. But it always was the Poppy. Poppy Bush. Why did the Taliban need to be overthrown? They banned the cultivation of poppies! That just goes too far!
But Centipedes, stung by scorpions, that were stung by Black Widows: old Chinese recipe for certain death!!!!