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Cayenne |
Pepper |
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Properties: |
pungent hot
followed by cooling nature |
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Meridians: |
HT - LU - ST - LI |
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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.
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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.
