October: National Chili Month
October 1, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Nutrition
Would you have known it was National Chili month if I hadn’t told you? Well, now you do.
Did you know that the main “ingredient” in a chili is capsaicin? And that capsaicin can be used in a cream or ointment to help relieve pain? The burning sensation that the cream gives by stimulating the pain signals in your body, researchers believe.
People often use a capsaicin cream to help relieve neuropathic (nerve) pain, such as that from shingles (herpes zoster) or diabetic neuropathy, a complication of diabetes. When I had shingles a few years ago, I did try a capsaicin cream …read more
