Anti-Nociceptive Activity of Achillea wilhelmsii Ethanolic Extract in Mice

The term ‘pain’ generally defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, caused by intense or damaging stimuli [1]. At some points of life, everyone experiences pain. It is an enormous global health problem and has been estimated that one-fifth adults suffer from pain, globally [2]. There are many herbal medicines for natural pain relief and some of them have been approved in experimental studies [3,4]. Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the use of herbal medicine worldwide. It has been estimated that threequarters of world population use herbal medicine. Despite this interest, there is still a significant lack of research data in this field [5-7].