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I'm turning into a chili addict and have just had a tin of Mulligatawny soup spiced up with 2 hot chili peppers and half an onion fried with chili powder, turmeric, garam masala and paprika, for lunch. mmmmmmm
all I want is curry. WHY?
Are you up the duff?
Clears out the sinuses doesn't it?
Wasabi is also good.
it's the bodies reaction to the capsaicin (the hot bit of chilies) which is quite a strong irritant.
Capsicain (from memory, so heckle if I get it wrong) is decent vasoconstrictor due to the way that it releases adrenaline when you eat it. I thyink that might have something to do with clearing airways.
It also makes you sweat a bit, so will cool you down a bit from the [slight] temperature that you will probably have.
years ago i was nagged into trying a "herbal" remedy for my hayfever.it was a snuff made mainly from chilli powder, garlic powder etc.
all i can say is the words "quite strong irritant" dont even come close 😯
oh and it didnt help...
a colleague of mine used to eat a dried birdseye chilli sandwich using catering grade horseradish as spread when he had a cold. forget arse wasps, that's gonna be like having the army test a tank on your ring piece
Never does me any good.
that's gonna be like having the army test a tank on your ring piece
And this confuses me, I've never once had any sensation from spicey foods passing through me, I'd always assumed it had been broken down during digestion.
pick the seeds out of a chilli to grow. Forget you've done this and scratch your nutsac.
You will soon forget that you had a cold
D'ya not wash your hands retro?
I did something similar with some scotch bonnets. De-seeded, washed hands, washed again. Picked nose. Cried like a girl.
Water and soap apparently doesn't remove the substance!
and they're bursting with vitamin c , as are all peppers,happy days
"And this confuses me, I've never once had any sensation from spicey foods passing through me, I'd always assumed it had been broken down during digestion. "
Some spicy food break down when they go through me but many definitely dont. This can be seriously painful.
Water and soap apparently doesn't remove the substance!
I read somewhere that although capsaicins are not soluble in water, they are in fat - so smear full fat yoghourt or butter on the nose/nutsack or other affected area and the theory is it should help.
Not tried it myself, though
you can also drink full fat milk to cool your mouth instead of water
i think the sensation of rubbing lard on your nut sack after a the burn of chilli would be construed as fairly masochistic behaviour 🙂