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Siling-labuyo (cayenne)

Folkloric

- Bruised berries used as powerful rubefacient; used for sore throats. Also used as gargle.

- Externally, a strong rubefacient that acts gently with no danger of vesication.

- Arthritis and rheumatism: Crush fruit, mix with oil and apply on affected part.

- Dyspepsia and flatulence: Eaten as condiment or drank as infusion as a stimulant and antispasmodic.

- Infusion of the fruit is stimulant, stomachic and antispasmodic; used for dyspepsia and flatulence.

- Infusion preparation: 3-10 grains every 2 hours to a cup of boiling water.

- Toothache: Juice of the pepper pressed into the tooth cavity.

- Rheumatism: Poultice of cayenne applied over affected parts.

- Fomentation of leaves and fruits applied to rheumatic pains.

- Leaves of some varieties used for dressing wounds and sores.

- Strong infusion of fruit of hotter varieties applied as lotion for ringworm of the scalp.

- Used in typhus intermittent fevers and dropsy.

- Externally, used as rubefacient , and internally as stomachic.

- Chile vinegar, made from pouring hot vinegar upon the fruit, used as stomachic.

- Chillies, combined with cinchona, used for lethargic affections, atonic gout, dyspepsia with flatulence, tympanites and paralysis.

- As rubefacient, mixed with with 10 to 20% cotton-seed oil, applied as cataplasm or as liniment.

- Powder or tincture used for relaxed uvula.

- Used in typhus intermittent fevers, gout, dyspepsia, cholera.

- Ancient Mayans used it for treatment of coughs, sore throat and coughs.

- In Jamaica, used by traditional healers to treat diabetes mellitus.

- Aztecs used chile pungency for toothaches

 

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