guccilvr's got it.
Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory. It reduces pain by reducing inflammation. It does nothing to numb pain via the brain and nervous system like analgesics do.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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