Sharon suffered for a week with the sores of shingles (herpes zoster). The open sores have healed now but the burning pain remains - so bad that Sharon had difficulty sleeping. Transdermal ibuprofen cream seemed to help a little, but wore of in just a few hours. Instead of applying the ibuprofen Sharon tried a small amount of TRANILAST cream (10%).

NOTE: The International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding published an article I wrote on this topic in their March/April 2007 issue. The information in that article is available on our website (click HERE to read about topicalTranilast).

I first discovered the use of tranilast for burns when I sustained a second-degree burn to the back of my hand after inadvertently touching the side of my furnace chimney during winter. I applied tranilast 10% cream to the burned area right away and noticed the immediate relief of pain and redness. Healing was evident a few days later, and 6 days after the burn, I had no sign of injury.

The pain of shingles is similar to the pain of a burn so it seemed to me that TRANILAST might be helpful. That's how practically every REAL health discovery is made. Someone makes an observation, thinks about it, and then searches for similar situations. Often the search is unconscious. Then there is one of those "aha moments" where a connection is made. The person with the idea makes a trial and it either works or it doesn't. Total cost is practically zero.

Sure, some researcfh laboratories set out with a goal in mind and then start looking for ways to accomplish it. For example, a search for a cancer cure might starty with testing thousands of plant extracts and hoping to find something that kills a cancer cell while leaving the normal cells alone. Total cost can be hundred of millions of dollars.

I don't have any scientific PROOF that tranilast works to relieve pain, just a coiuple of anecdotal examples. This is surely not enough that I can make any specific claims about topical tranilast. Still, it seems that there is a direct connection between applying tranilast cream and pain relief.

Your local compounding pharmacist can make a 10% tranilast cream for you. If they don't have a formula for it tell them tocontact me and I'll share mine. If you can't find tranilast locally you can buy it from me. Here are a couple of purchase links:

Tranilast 10% TD 8ml Syringe  $9.00  Click HERE to Order Tranilast
Tranilast 10% TD 30ml Frosted Pumper (0.25ml dose)  $29.00  Click HERE to Order Tranilast

MORE... Another compounding pharmacist reported the following after she read our story about TRANILAST.

... I decided to try the tranilast ... and so we put the tranilast into Lipoderm and milled it. The guys wife picked it up and I suggested applying 2 to 3 times daily... to the area and asked if she would tell her husband to call the store tomorrow morning for an update. He called less than an hour later and said he loved the "10% lidocaine" cream and it was working already.

Now, as you can imagine it was a moment where I was excited about how well this was working and panicking that he got the wrong stuff!!! Talk about your mixed emotion moment!! Anyway, I told him it was 10% tranilast in lipoderm and he insisted I gave him lidocaine because it was working so well! I checked his chart and our compounding log while he went upstairs to check the container. Needless to say he apologized when he looked at the label and said the way it worked he thought for sure it was lidocaine! Well, he is going to call me tomorrow and I will let you know what he says. ... Anyway, just wanted to share with you.

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