Cayenne Pepper - The King of Herbs - Heal South Africa

• Promote digestion; relieves pains of the womb; removes obstructed menstruation;for quinsy; for all diseases of the throat; use as a plaster with honey for rheumaticpains, pains of the joints, gout, swellings, etc.; Use outwardly as a liniment, apply itwarm or hot for arthritis and rheumatism; gargle for scarlet fever; use an infusionfor ulcers in the mouth, strep throat or tonsillitis. (p.103)• Cayenne is an excellent remedy for a cold; mix infusion with slippery elm andmolasses or honey, and take in doses throughout the day; also excellent for sorethroat and coughs.• Cayenne mixed with pennyroyal (an herb) taken for three days will expel the deadbirth material from a miscarriage.• Eases toothache; preserves the teeth from rotting, and when rubbed on the gums,stimulates them enough to prevent pyorrhea.• Excellent for any type of internal hemorrhage, (create an infusion with bethroot orstar root);• Capsicum is an important remedy in cholera; Capsicum stops vomiting; combinewith equal parts of Capsicum and common table salt, one half ounce of each, onepint of good vinegar, give in tablespoon doses for cholera, vomiting "cholera morbus"-- the gross material associated with cholera from the system• In chronic lumbago a plaster of Capsicum with garlic, pepper and liquid amber(silarasa) or storax is an efficient stimulant and rubefacient application. (p105)• When made into a lozenge with sugar and tragacanth it is a remedy forhoarseness.• For a carminative make pills of equal parts of Capsicum, rhubarb and ginger oraloes.• Combine Capsicum with cinchona for intermittent and lethargic affections and foratonic gout and in advanced stages of rheumatism.• Combine with asafoetida and sweet flag root or camphor in the form of pills incases of cholera.• Capsicum has a powerful action on the mucous membrane, and in hoarseness andsore throat, and in putrid throat a gargle made of Capsicum is particularly beneficial.• By pouring hot vinegar upon the fruits of Capsicum all the essential qualities arepreserved. This vinegar is an excellent stomachic.• The whole plant steeped in milk is successfully applied to reduce swellings andhardened tumors.• An infusion with cinnamon and sugar is a valuable drink for patients suffering fromdelirium tremens as it satisfies the craving in dipsomaniacs. A dose of ten grains of