Some painkillers available across the counter can cause self-poisoning upon overdose resulting in symptoms like drowsiness, abdominal pain and vomiting. More sever overdose may result in liver failure as the body can not neutralize the toxic byproduct generated during metabolism of such pain-killers- says Dr Jennifer Schneider, a pharmacy expert based at the University of Newcastle.

#Pain is often a symptom, an uncomfortable one indeed, of something going wrong underneath in the body.

#Ayurveda offers therapies like Abyhanga massage with Mahanarayn oil to relieve muscular pain, and #Marma or Kati basti treatments for skeletal or nervine pains.

These remedies are without any side-effects and also aid in curing the root cause of the pain in addition to relieving the pain symptoms.

At times one has to take pain-killers to alleviate the pain and there is nothing wrong in that. It is overdosing and dependence that causes these problems.

For severe pain, pain killer tablets as advised by doctor can be combined with having Ayurvedic treatment/s recommended by the practitioner to get relief from symptoms as well as the root cause.