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Cayenne	Pepper

Properties:	pungent hot followed by cooling nature
Meridians:	HT - LU - ST - LI

Also Known As:

African Chillies, African Pepper, Bird Pepper, Capsaicin, Capsicum Fruit, Cayenne, Chili Pepper, Garden Pepper, Goat's Pod, Grains Of Paradise, Green Bell Pepper, Green Chili Pepper, Hot Pepper, Hungarian Pepper, Ici Fructus, Louisiana Long Pepper, Louisiana Sport Pepper, Mexican Chilies, Paprika, Pimento, Red Pepper, Sweet Pepper, Tabasco Pepper, Zanzibar Pepper. Capsicum frutescens; Capsicum annuum; Capsicum chinense; Capsicum baccatum; Capsicum pubscens; and other Capsicum species.

Family: Solanaceae

Properties:

Cayenne pepper warms the middle, relieves abdominal fullness in patterns of stomach cold or spleen yang deficiency (diarrhea, dysentery)

expels cold, rescues collapsed yang

heart blood stagnation and deficiency

heart yang deficiency

promotes sweating, expel wind cold dampness, clears fever, benefits throat

promotes tissue repair, reduces contusions and relieves pain

when combined with other herbs or in a formula cayenne adds more yang, move moving properties to the concoction.

Also Used For:

Orally, capsicum is used to stimulate digestion, as an antiflatulent, for colic, diarrhea, cramps, toothache, to improve peripheral circulation, for reducing blood clotting tendencies, seasickness, alcoholism, malarial fever, yellow and other fevers, for reducing cholesterol, and preventing arteriosclerosis and heart disease.

Topically, capsicum is used for the pain of shingles, and for post-herpetic, trigeminal, diabetic, post-mastectomy, and post-surgical neuralgias, HIV-associated peripheral neuropathy, and fibromyalgia. It is also used as a counterirritant to desensitize nerves and to create a feeling of warmth.

Capsicum is also used to relieve muscle spasms, as a gargle for laryngitis, and as a deterrent to thumb-sucking or nail biting.

Capsicum has also been used as an inhalational provocation test to distinguish sensory hyperreactivity of the airways from asthma.

In food, capsicum is used as a condiment.

In manufacturing, capsicum is the main ingredient used in many self-defense sprays, also referred to as pepper spray.

Contraindications:

Cayenne pepper is contraindicated during full heat patterns, pregnancy, acute inflammation or irritations, peptic ulcer, bladder like symptoms and may cause blistering if left on topically for long durations of time.

General History Of Cayenne Pepper

Found in the 1750’s, and immediately washed all over pacific western herbal medicine, many pharmacists during this time replaced black pepper with cayenne.

It is now known as the purest most neutral stimulant known to man.

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