Yes, some translations do say myrh, others say gall. Also if you look back to the story of his birth, The magi or wise men brought gold, frankincence, and myrh. Actually they would have brought myrh,frankincense and gold representing what they had seen foretold in the stars that made them decide to undertake such a long journey. You see the greek as I understand it lists things either in the order of quantity or worth, in this case the gold first and so on. The myrh for the pain of his being crucified, (don't forget they invented a new word to describe the pain involved here, "excruciating" the prefix ex- means from, cruc is the word for cross thus excrusias(please forgive if the latin isn't perfect) but it means from the cross) so myrh for the pain from the cross frankincense is used for embalming so it would be for his death and the gold would be for their gift of homage for his later ascencion to his eternal throne. Amazing if you think about it that these magi saw all that and new what gifts to bring this young child. Otherwise it would be some pretty cruddy gifts for a 2 or so year old(they didn't show up at the manger like the songs and the cute movies say. If you examine the text carefully it probably took them a while to get their entourage together and then the journey probably took over a year. The text says they gave the gifts to the "young child" some of my friends who study the greek tell me that the actual word used meant he was between 1-4 but not a baby when they got thier. the magi were from distant lands who studied the stars intently they may have been from what is now China as some say or they may even have been from India. Anyway yes I have heard that myrh is and has been used as a pain killer. You can find a number of listings by typing in myrh (or I think an alternate spelling is myrrh but of that I am not sure) along with for example holistic herbal and healing and pain killer or some such combination into a search engine such as Google.
