Can cayenne pepper cure a cold?
Cold and flu season isn’t quite over yet, so chances are you could still wind up with few sniffles before spring sets in. I don’t know about you, but when it comes to dealing with colds I don’t really like most flu medicine. It may suppress the cough, but I find they are too drying to the rest of my mucus membranes and my eyes and throat start to feel sore because of it.
So that’s why people look for more natural remedies to deal with cold and flu. If that’s the case for you, you might be wondering if cayenne pepper can cure a cold? I tend to think that it is really just time that cures colds as eventually, untreated, they will always go away. But that doesn’t mean taking cayenne pepper for a cold won’t help.
Cayenne pepper will certainly help if you are suffering with a blocked, stuff nose. Just add a pinch of the ground pepper to some of your meals and it should start working to loosen up that mucus so you can blow your nose and push the yuck right out of your sinuses.
Some folks also swear by cayenne pepper as a remedy for sore throats. You can gargle with a mixture of cayenne pepper and warm water and the analgesic properties of the pepper pepper should help eliminate some of the pain.
So while herbs and spices aren’t going to cure your cold, there are definitely cayenne pepper benefits that make it work keeping your cupboard stocked with it in winter. The powdered form of the pepper will be the most useful way to take it if you want to mix together a gargle, but having some dried peppers on hand to spice up your recipes is a good idea too, even when you aren’t feeling off your game. A little spice can warm up the cold winter nights.