Useful Herbs: Cayenne Pepper

Written by Thomas Corriher Saturday, 28 November 2009 04:48

Cayenne Pepper: The Hottest Thing For Heart Problems and Uncontrollable Blood Pressure

Cayenne is a herb which should be added to your foods whenever possible.  Cayenne’s benefits to the digestive system, circulatory system, and the heart have earned it the nickname “miracle herb”.  Some people have used it to aid with weight loss, due to its ability to boost the metabolism.  Cayenne pepper was first used as a stimulant by the Cherokee Indians.  It is most notable for its effect upon the heart.  Cayenne has been known to stop heart attacks within 30 seconds when taken orally.

The benefits of cayenne usage were first reported by Dr. David Christopher, a naturopathic doctor who spent most of his life discovering and promoting alternatives to pharmaceutical medications.  Of course, he spent his career being persecuted for challenging the establishment as well.  He is the most noted pioneer in the modern use of cayenne pepper for medication.  Dr. Christopher was so instrumental in promoting cayenne in the naturalistic, nutritional, and herbal communities that he is sometimes referred to as “Dr. Cayenne”.

“Recent clinical studies have been conducted on many of the old time health applications for this miracle herb.  Again and again, the therapeutic value of cayenne pepper has been medically validated.”

― Dr. Patrick Quillin

Cayenne has been used medically for thousands of years, and most other nations are much more likely use such herbs as part of their standard orthodox medical protocols.  These countries always have better results.  In fact, the U.S. is ranked 38th in life expectancy, which places the U.S. health care system below Cuba's, South Korea's, Costa Rica's, Guadeloupe's, Singapore's, and 32 other nations, according to an investigative report by Mother Jone’s  Magazine.  It is worth noting that these countries do not have an organization like the F.D.A. suppressing traditional herbal remedies on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry.

Why Is It Not Used In The U.S.A.?

Cayenne's effects on the heart have been ridiculed by the medical establishment partly because this common spice is not backed by millions of dollars in research investments and years of clinical studies.  These investments and studies will never materialize, because pharmaceutical corporations know that they cannot patent natural substances.  There is also a certain degree of professional arrogance at play preventing most doctors from considering that a simple spice is potentially more powerful than the expensive and complex pharmaceuticals that they have studied for years.  They also have an understandable level of fear about incurring the wrath of the F.D.A. if they were to ever use an “unapproved drug”, and of course, that approval will never come since no company will fund research into something that they can never patent. This is how the “science” of the drug racket operates. Making the problem worse is the fact that cayenne’s most impressive property; namely its ability to sometimes stop an ongoing heart attack, cannot be tested. Testing this would require intentionally inducing heart attacks with study participants, and not many people are going to be willing to be a part of that. We certainly would not want to touch that.

Its Many Uses and Why Everyone Should Use Cayenne Pepper

Cayenne should be used daily for anyone who has problems with their heart or blood pressure, because it is beneficial to both. Unlike pharmaceuticals, cayenne pepper helps blood pressure regardless of whether the blood pressure is initially high or initially low, because it relaxes blood vessels while causing the heart to beat more efficiently, which practically guarantees circulation improvement regardless of the preexisting condition.  This is the difference between man made and God’s medicines. Cayenne is yet another herb that does what the “experts” believe is impossible.

Its main medical applications are: weak digestion, chronic pain, shingles, heart disease, sore throats, headaches, high cholesterol levels, poor circulation, blood pressure issues, heart attacks, and toothaches.  The use of cayenne has been attributed to the following benefits in patients: dissolving plaque in the arteries, improving heart efficiency, relaxing blood vessels, increasing metabolism, it helps the body to eliminate scar tissue after heart attacks, eliminates pain when applied topically, produces endorphins to enhance mood, eliminates shock, eliminates cluster headaches and in some cases, migraine headaches, fights cancer, provides partial relief of sinus problems and congestion, is anti-inflammatory, causes weight loss, prevents blood clots, reduces serum cholesterol, reduces triglycerides, reduces platelet aggregation, cures stomach ulcers, alleviates muscles spasms, cramps, and bowel pain, and it will rapidly cure sore throat infections when used in a gargle.

Cayenne pepper can be purchased in convenient capsule form at health food stores for people who wish to use it as a supplement.  We always recommend avoiding regular retailers for supplements.

It is popular to use cayenne infused in warm water.  Some people add around half a teaspoon of cayenne to 8 ounces of water or tea, and then they gradually increase the amount of cayenne as their tolerance grows.

Heart Attacks

In the event of a heart attack, these are our recommendations:

1. Call an ambulance.
2. Do not skip step #1.
3. Open a taurine capsule and hold the powder in mouth, along with anything containing magnesium.
4. Make a cayenne transdermal absorption pack.  Do this by wetting a rag with hot water, and fold it so that it is a quarter of its normal size.  Then coat one side of the wet rag with a layer of cayenne pepper.
5. Lay on your back and apply this to the bare skin of your abdomen area.  (The skin on the abdomen area has the fastest absorption, and this positions the cayenne compounds in the vicinity of the heart.)
6. It may be helpful to place a very tiny amount of cayenne pepper in the mouth, only if you can tolerate it.
7. Try to relax.
8. If at all possible, breath deeply and slowly.
9. Wait for help.
10. Remember step #1

 

Warning During a heart attack, call an ambulance for emergency assistance.  It is okay to use cayenne in addition to calling, but do not forgo calling.  Cayenne may not be enough to save your life during a heart attack, and therefore, it is critical to seek emergency medical help.  Err on the side of caution during potential heart emergencies.  The orthodox medical establishment is often the best at emergency medicine, and it may be too late for alternative medicine during a heart emergency.