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| If you decide to try cayenne capsules, be sure to take them with food and plenty of water, tea or juice; cayenne taken on an empty stomach with small amounts of liquid can burn for hours. However, even this side effect disappears with regular use. If you'd like to reduce or eliminate your use of prescription drugs, work with a health care professional. |
| Cayenne heals ulcers (bland rather than spicy foods used to be recommended for ulcer patients, but cayenne works better), stops hemorrhaging, speeds the healing of wounds, eases congestion, improves digestion and elimination, reduces pain, warms cold hands and feet, relieves swelling in varicose veins and hemorrhoids, helps prevent colds and flu and prevents the spread of infection. Although some who suffer from rheumatism and arthritis are sensitive to members of the nightshade family (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, tobacco and peppers), those who are not derive significant pain relief from cayenne pepper and from massage oils containing cayenne. It relieves pain so effectively that researchers at Yale University developed a chile pepper taffy for patients with painful mouth lesions resulting from cancer therapy. |
| Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) |
| Botanists tell us that the ginkgo, also known as the maidenhair tree, is the oldest tree species on earth, having survived an estimated 200 million years. Common in Europe and North America during the Age of Dinosaurs, the ginkgo disappeared during the last Ice Age from all of its native habitats except China, where it continued to thrive and where its healing properties were recognized long ago. |
| Male ginkgo trees are ornamental, while female trees produce a foul-smelling fruit at maturity. The fruit contains a nut which is a delicacy in Chinese cooking. Both |
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