Could The Hot Stuff In Chili Peppers Ease Your Tingling Nerve Pain?

Friday, October 16, 2009 - 16:28 in Health & Medicine

Millions of people suffer peripheral pain and other troubling sensations accompanying diseases as varied as diabetes, AIDS, shingles and arthritis. Cancer patients also often suffer these so-called peripheral neuropathies because of their therapies. For afflicted patients, a new review suggests, although not strongly, that four of 10 people could experience some pain relief from topical capsaicin cream. Capsaicin is the active component of chili peppers.

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