Improve Circulation With Cayenne Pepper

Few people know that to improve the circulation of blood in the body, Cayenne has little equal.

Cayenne is also known as chilli pepper, hot pepper and Tabasco pepper.

Most households throughout the West will include some form of Cayenne in the kitchen but most people probably do not realise what a powerfully healing herb it really is. It is particularly a great blood circulation stimulant. This ability to stimulate the circulation means that cayenne can be very helpful in treating conditions such as piles and varicose veins. Indeed - a great help for the whole blood circulation.

Cayenne peppers grow naturally in America and Africa, but are now cultivated world wide.

The fruit is used both in cooking and medicine, and it owes its hot flavour to a chemical called capsaicin, which comprises about 12% of the pepper.

Capsaicin was isolated by chemists more than a century ago as the main active constituent of Cayenne. It is a great "circulatory stimulant": it inceases blood circulation throughout the body. It may be familiar to you - you may have seen it listed in the ingredients of some pharmaceutical ointments used to relieve arthritis and muscle pain.

Dishes that include hot peppers are most common in very hot climates like southern America and Thailand. This might seem odd but it has been recently found that hot spices like Cayenne kill certain food-borne bacterium that are more likely to be present in the food of hot climates.

History
American Indians cultivated the chilli pepper for centuries, for medicinal uses as well as culinary.

The plant is first mentioned in western literature by a physician named Diego Alvarez Chanca who encountered it when he travelled with Columbus on his second voyage to the West Indies in 1494.

Today Cayenne is listed in many world pharmacopoeias (official drug lists), and the American Physicians Desk Reference includes several prescription drugs that contain the herb.

Uses of Cayenne - For Increasing Circulation Especially

Dr Richard Schulze, a medical herbalist who studied with Dr John Christopher, says of Cayenne: "If you master only one herb in your life, master cayenne pepper. It is more powerful than any other. There is no other herb that increases the blood ciculation faster than cayenne. There are none that work faster; none that work better".

Dr Christopher himself has plenty to say about Cayenne, giving it the credit for his own amazing change in health. For most of his life, up to the age of 35, he suffered badly from - amongst other complaints - severe hardening of the arteries. In fact he had been told by medical doctors that he could not live beyond his 40th birthday.

At 45, 10 years after he started to take Cayenne on a daily basis, a medical examiner him told him he had the venous structure of a teenage boy! Cayenne had not only improved his circulation, it had actually improved the health of the actual arteries. He passed the medical examination with a completely clean bill of health.

Many practitioners believe that Cayenne should be added to all herbal preparations, or taken as a supplement with other herbs, as the Cayenne ensures a clear passageway through the circulatory system, letting the other herbs reach their destination more quickly.

If you need to improve your circulation, I hope this page has clearly communicated to you: cayenne is probably the best single herb you could use.

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