Halifax—The herbal pain reliever Neuragen™ RL developed by Origin BioMedicinals Inc. (www.originbiomed.com), a Halifax natural health products company, is providing some end-users with relief from nerve-related (neuropathic) pain—a result which has to date eluded many researchers.
 
According to eight Canadian health care practitioners familiar with the topical oil product, Neuragen™ RL has proven effective, in individual cases, in relieving pain from the following neuropathies: peripheral neuropathy, post-herpetic neuralgia, shingles, reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), spinal stenosis, fibromyalgia, neurogenic headaches, and degenerative disc-lower back pain.  Pain relief typically occurs within minutes and lasts for hours. In one case, a man who had been confined to his home due to diabetic neuropathy is now taking regular walks for the first time in a year. “There are few products available that provide relief from neuropathic pain,” said Don Kyte, Pharmacist, Kyte’s Pharmasave, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, “and these pain relievers generally produce side effects. The need is therefore great for a product such as Neuragen which has demonstrated it provides relief on an individual-case basis, and it has no known side effects because it’s topical.”   

“We are pleased to work with the research clinicians who made this important discovery,” said Robert Cervelli, Origin BioMedicinals President, “and to be the company exclusively responsible for the commercialization of Neuragen™.  It has already provided a dramatic lifestyle improvement for many chronic pain sufferers.” Origin BioMedicinals introduced Neuragen™ RL to the market in March, 2002. Other Origin products include: HerpeStat® Cream and HerpeStat® Lip Shield for treatment of Herpes sores and cold sores; and Polyphenon® green tea catechin skin products. Origin BioMedicinals is one of a small but growing number of North American companies that are merging hard science, backed up by clinical trials, with the development of 100% natural-ingredient health products.

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