Disclosed is an analgesic agent for a non-inflammatory pain disease, which
comprises a sialic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as
an active ingredient. The sialic acid which is an active ingredient for
the agent has an analgesic effect on a disease model animal of neurogenic
pain which is a non-inflammatory pain. Therefore, the analgesic agent is
useful as a pharmaceutical agent for the treatment of a non-inflammatory
pain disease such as a neurogenic pain disease, e.g. trigeminal
neuralgia, postherpetic neuralgia, entrapment neuropathy, complex
regional pain syndrome, diabetic neuropathy, traumatic neuropathy,
phantom limb pain, central pain after spinal cord injury or stroke, and
neuropathy caused by pharmacotherapy or radiation therapy, or the like.