Pain has been a constant companion to humanity since its existence. Pain prompted man to search for a cure, and so the first attempts at medicine began. A long journey full of trials and errors. The episode reviews humanity's journey to find an effective and at the same time safe painkiller, starting with charms and amulets, passing through opium and its derivatives, and ending with the invention of Paracetamol. #AlDahih Sources: The Canon of Medicine by Ibn Sina. The Discovery of Aspirin's Antithrombotic Effects - PMC https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... How aspirin was discovered - Krishna Sudhir - YouTube • How aspirin was discovered - Krishna ... What You Should Know About Opioids and Painkillers Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter TED - YouTube • What You Should Know About Opioids an... How do pain relievers work? - George Zidan - YouTube • How Do Pain Relievers Work? - George ... Opium Throughout History The Opium Kings FRONTLINE PBS https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl... Ali bin Issa Al-Kahhal.. The Ophthalmologist Whom Europeans Learned Arabi Post https://arabicpost.live/%D8%AB%D9%82%... Opiate Addiction in the Civil War's Aftermath Virginia Museum of History & Culture https://virginiahistory.org/learn/opi... drugtimeline.ca/event/paracelsus-swiss-botanist-invents-opium-tincture/ BBC Radio 4 - The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry - The man who can't feel pain https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti... Netflix's Painkiller True Story, Explained: What Did the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma Do? https://www.elle.com/culture/a4476060... A History of Treating Pain - Fern for Chronic Pain https://www.fernhealth.com/blog/a-his... Pain relief: from coal tar to paracetamol Feature RSC Education https://edu.rsc.org/feature/pain-reli... The early history of non-opioid analgesics - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... The early history of non-opioid analgesics Kay Brune, MD review article. Sci-Hub The early history of non-opioid analgesics. Acute Pain, 1(1), 33–40 10.1016/s1366-0071(97)80033-2 https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/s1366-0071... A Key to PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LITERATURE https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/... How Does Acetaminophen Work? Tufts University School of Medicine https://medicine.tufts.edu/news-event... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... History of Analgesics SpringerLink https://link.springer.com/referencewo... The True Story Behind Netflix's Painkiller TIME https://time.com/6303583/painkiller-n...