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Using whole-cell patch clamp technique on the membrane of freshly isolated dorsal root ganglion(DRG)neurons,the effects of dragon's blood resin and its important component Ioureirin B on tetrodotoxin-sensitive(TTX-S)voltage-gated sodium currents were observed.The results show that both blood resin and loureirin B could suppress TTX-S voltage-gated sodium currents in a dose-dependent way.The peak current amplitudes and the steady-state activation and inactivation curves are also made to shift by 0.05% blood resin and 0.2 mmol/L loureirin B.These results demonstrate that the effects of blood resin on TTX-S sodium current may contribute to loureirin B in blood resin.Perhaps the analgesic effect of blood resin is caused partly by loureirin B directly interfering with the nociceptive transmission of primary sensory neurons.