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Paracetamol is the drug that only activates those chemicals in the body that are responsible for inflammation. When a paracetamol is swallowed, it is supposed to dissolve in your stomach and absorb into your blood. The paracetamol then travels around the body to reach both the painful spot and your brain, where it then starts to reduce the feeling of pain.
In short, paracetamol is able to block the processes that cause the feeling of pain. To understand why, we need to explain a bit more about how pain works.
Electrical signals move through your nerves, to the spinal cord, and then up to the brain, causing pain.
When the pain signal reaches the brain, it alerts us to the fact that there is a serious problem.
So, if a burnt hand causes us pain, we promptly withdraw it from the fire. If a dog bites us, the pain signals us to flee.
