MYRRH is a PAINKILLER. Has been, and was, the #1 painkiller till opium took prominence in 1850's...NOW let us read John 19 verse 39: And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of MYRRH and ALOES about an hundred pound weight. It was a RESUSCITATION! For Christs sake, doesn't anyone THINK ANYMORE? Myrrh and Aloes was NEVER used in a Burial in old Israel. NEVER !!!!! Thoth al Khem