Dr. Sakiliba Mines, a family physician in Northwest Washington, DC. advocates making a nice tea with the hot water, cayenne pepper, lemon and add a little honey in order to provide relief from spring allergies.  All these things are excellent for the sinuses and boost the immune system. Read the entire article here.

I found an article that recommends the application of hot pepper powder to the socks to keep the toes warm in the winter.  Very interesting, read the entire article here.

Interesting article that compares the nutritional content of green and red bell pepper and a “hot” red pepper.  Interesting that the red pepper has an order of magnitude higher concentration of vitamin A than the green pepper and about 3 times higher than the red hot pepper.  You can find the entire article here.

The folks over at the Armadillo Pepper have an interesting short article covering the health benefits of daily intake of peppers resulting from peppers high concentrations of vitamins A, C, and K.  Learn natural sources of vitamins in order to maintain health once codex alimentarius takes control and eliminates the sale of vitamins entirely.  Hot [...]

Apparently Canadians have a taste for salt (NaCl) and a new report recommends substitution of salt with hot pepper sauce and/or spice in order to lower consumption without lowering taste. Read the article here.

Hot peppers are good for health owing to their manifold physiological action including: antioxidants, anti-cancer, protects against cardiovascular disease, and even protection against age-related eye diseases. To read the entire article click here.

The medicinal diversity of hot peppers is further evidenced by the 2003 study by Japanese researchers who have discovered that capsaicin has an inhibitory effect on the growth of human leukemia cells in vitro.

No doubt if you have consumed any hot peppers or food spiced with hot pepper you have experienced a burning sensation in your mouth accompanied by sweating.  The sweating is a result of your body trying to cool itself down, thinking that you mouth is on fire.  Scientists call this non-exercise thermogenesis (the process of [...]

Antimicrobial Activity of Capsaicinoids The chemicals in the pods of hot peppers responsible for pungency (perceived heat) are Capsaicinoids, of which there are over 12 similar compounds that are present in varying concentrations.  The two principle Capsaicinoids are capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin.  These two compounds typically represent between 80-95% of the total Capsaicinoids.  Studies of these [...]