There are not too many occasions in our lives that we dread more
than going to the dentist to have a cavity filled or a tooth
extracted. In addition to the pain and unpleasantness of the
actual procedure, most people do not look forward to the
preceding injection of Novocain. It doesn't help that the
needle, which always seems to look unusually big, is wielded
right before our eyes as it is inserted into our mouths. Now,
however, a scientist out of Cambridge may have discovered an all
natural solution to dental pain that does not involve any
synthetic chemicals or unpleasant injections, and comes from the
rainforests of South America. In fact, in a page out of the
movies, the discovery of the painkiller occurred after an
anthropologist spent time with an indigenous tribe in Peru. She
was in fact the first westerner to be welcomed to live with the
Keshwa Lamas of the Amazon rainforest, and while she was with
them, she was introduced to many of the tribes traditions and
customs. During her travels in the rainfo