Guest guest Posted October 31, 2007 Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 Chile Pepper Anesthesia " Devil's Revenge " , " Spontaneous Combustion " , et el. -- hot sauces have names like that for a reason. Now, scientists are testing if the stuff that makes the sauces so savage can tame the pain of surgery. Doctors are dripping the chemical that gives chile peppers their fire directly into open wounds during knee replacement and a few other highly painful operations. Don't try this at home: These experiments use an ultra-purified version of capsaicin to avoid infection - and the volunteers are under anesthesia so they don't scream at the initial burn. How could something searing possibly soothe? Bite a hot pepper, and after the burn your tongue goes numb. The hope is that bathing surgically exposed nerves in a high enough dose will numb them for weeks, so that patients suffer less pain and require fewer narcotic painkillers as they heal. _Read Entire Article Here_ (http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7316542) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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