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| need capsicumred cayenne pepper." To prove her wrong, he went home and followed his doctor's instructions to the letter. But instead of recovering, his arteries collapsed and he began moving in slow motion, fainting in inconvenient places and suffering terrible bouts of weakness. Then a blind spell occurred; his vision gradually disappeared until he could see nothing. |
| A few days after that episode, which slowly reversed itself, Quinn saw his cardiologist for a six-month checkup. The more he demanded answers, the more distant and defensive the doctor became. All he could recommend was another surgery. "At that moment," Quinn wrote, "I realized it was entirely up to me to heal myself. I knew nothing at all about treating heart disease, but I had to take charge. He was dropping me. He had done what he knew how to do and now he didn't have to care any more." His doctor had followed the accepted procedures. They didn't work, but that was okay. The patient should now die quietly, without making a fuss. |
| The only alternative treatment Quinn had ever heard of was his friend's mother's recommendation, so in desperation he drove to a store and bought a can of powdered cayenne pepper for 69 cents. He went home, emptied some capsules from an old prescription, filled them with cayenne and swallowed three. Nothing happened and he went to bed. |
| When he awoke an hour earlier than usual, instead of being exhausted, he felt energetic. With mixed emotions, he walked outside. It was only after he had moved a ladder, carried a shovel and cleared the entire porch roof of snow that he realized something dramatic had happened and that it was linked to the cayenne pepper. After that, Quinn discontinued all prescription drugs, including blood thinners and high blood pressure medication. Instead, he took three cayenne capsules a day and lived another lively, energetic 18 years. |
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