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Although a fair amount of research is under way, we are still uncertain how intravenous procaine actually blocks pain. It does not work as an anaesthetic agent blocking all the nerves carrying pain because the patient has full awareness of sensation after the injection.

Procaine is thought to block the higher centres and pathways carrying pain. Effectiveness varies from one person to another.

It is important to stress that, unlike many narcotics and other medicines used in pain control, procaine does not seem to block the body’s own pain-fighting mechanism as stimulated by acupuncture, TENS, lasers, and so on.

This is important because it does not exclude the use of IV procaine with electrical and other stimulation allowing methods of pain treatment to continue hand in hand.

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