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THis is for animals and HUMANS. I just got my first 12 oz bottle yesterday and what a find...from another friend in health testimony. Now I have 3 first go to topicals: Topricin, Ultra Tiger Balm, Absorbine.
And Amazon has well over 1000 reviews....I always go there first to check things out. Ebay had a lot too and I got mine there.
Nothing new about this. Its been a horse liniment since 1892! I'd suspect Tiger Balm started off as a sort of "updated" version of Absorbine. They're not essentially much different. One key active ingredient in both Tiger Balm and Absorbine is menthol, a counterirritant. So is capsaisin, another pain reliever used in other topicals. The menthol generates a cooling feeling and capsaicin generates a warming one, but the pain-relieving mechanism works pretty much the same...by creating a counterirritation they sort of "distract" sensory nerves temporarily. Of the three topicals you listed, Topracin uses a different mechanism. It doesn't contain counterirritants.
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Nothing new about this. Its been a horse liniment since 1892! I'd suspect Tiger Balm started off as a sort of "updated" version of Absorbine. They're not essentially much different. One key active ingredient in both Tiger Balm and Absorbine is menthol, a counterirritant. So is capsaisin, another pain reliever used in other topicals. The menthol generates a cooling feeling and capsaicin generates a warming one, but the pain-relieving mechanism works pretty much the same...by creating a counterirritation they sort of "distract" sensory nerves temporarily. Of the three topicals you listed, Topracin uses a different mechanism. It doesn't contain counterirritants.
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Topricin is a totally different mechanism, it contains 11 homeopathic solutions and enough around here poo poo homeopathy which has been around LONG before any of the other medicines in the world.
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Vet Liniment Gel and DMSO work well together. We used to use that on horses.
Whatever works, and I combine a couple things too. I also found a nice Arnica cream with DMSO cream in a 16 oz jar. I've been using DMSO in various form for years.
They are now selling Volteran over the counter--an anti inflammatory and pain reliever. It mixed with over the counter lidocaine lotion works wonders for anything that hurts.
They are now selling Volteran over the counter--an anti inflammatory and pain reliever. It mixed with over the counter lidocaine lotion works wonders for anything that hurts.
I don't find lidocaine lotion otc...what I read is prescription only. I use Aspercream too that contains 4% lidocaine and it's pretty good stuff. Nothing lasts or truly fixes, all bandaids. I guess that's all we can do is bandaid all the years of damage.
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