A hot pepper that is dried and used to season many Louisiana dishes.
Improves circulatory system; Cayenne is been used as an overall digestive aid and is considered to improve the entire circulatory system and act as one of the best stimulants. Considered to be one of the most valuable herbs, allows healing and cleansing to take place, making Cayenne excellent for colds and chills. Recent topical use is being prescribed by doctors, to treat the pain of gout.
plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum
a long and often twisted hot red pepper
Called the supreme internal disinfectant. It increases heart action but not blood pressure. Helps in digestion, colds and flu, helps to rebuild tissue in the stomach and helps heal stomach and intestinal ulcers. Known as the purest and best stimulant in the herb kingdom. It is a catalyst, and carries all other herbs and nutrients quickly to body parts that need it the most.
Cayenne pepper is a very hot red powder used to flavor spicy dishes; its name comes from the city of Cayenne in French Guyana. The powder comes from the fruit of several cultivated varieties of the Capsicum baccatum and Capsicum frutescens species of the nightshade family. The fruits are either dried and ground, or pulped and baked into cakes, which are then ground and sifted to make the powder. It is generally rated at 30,000 to 50,000 Scoville Units. The name is derived from the Tupi word kyinha, literally “hot pepper.†Photo of cayenne chiles by Rafael Rigues.
A small, hot, chile pepper, usually used ground or in pepper sauces. Recipe: Zesty Grilled Chicken
very thin, long, hot, and sweet chille pepper usually used dry. Cayenne is the name now used generically for all commercially prepared ground, dried, hot red peppers.
Capsicum minimum Dried ripe pods Circulatory stimulant, warming, antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, appetite stimulant
was considered helpful by herbalists for various conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, including stomach aches, cramping pains, and wind. It was frequently used to treat diseases of the circulatory system. It is still traditionally used in herbal medicine as a circulatory tonic (a substance believed to improve circulation). Rubbed on the skin, cayenne is a traditional, as well as modern, remedy for rheumatic pains and arthritis due to what is termed a counterirritant effect. A counterirritant is something that causes irritation to a tissue to which it is applied, thus distracting from the original irritation (such as joint pain in the case of arthritis).
Ground Ground form of hot red pepper; looks like paprika, but is extremely hot sauces, soups, meat, fish, egg, and cheese dishes
Pepper used in many hot sauces
Bright red, very hot chile pepper. Used to make cayenne pepper, or ground for soups and sauces.
The potent, hot fruit of cayenne has been used as medicine for centuries. It is helpful for various conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, including constipation (by stimulating peristalsis), stomachaches, cramping pains, and gas.
Cayenne chili pepper used as a condiment in foods promotes digestion. As a medicine, cayenne pepper is a general stimulant.
It stimulates blood flow, strengthening the heart, arteries, capillaries and nerves. A general tonic, it is also specific for both circulatory and digestive system. It may be used in flatulent dyspepsia and colic. Cayenne may also be used to ward off colds.
Capsicum frutescens The herb has a general effect on the heart, stomach, kidneys and circulation. It stimulates the entire body thereby assisting the process of healing. It has been successfully used to help regulate blood pressure and is frequently employed to stop bleeding both internally and externally. Folk remedies have used this herb to treat Influenza, colds, strokes, headaches, indigestion, Depression, Arthritis, ulcers and to help stop heart attacks. When Cayenne is used in herbal compounds, its presence assures the expedient delivery of the other active principles to the vital systems of the body. Cayenne, itself, contains important nutrients including alpha- Tocopherals, Vitamin C and minerals.
Is both an herb and a spice obtained from the dried, ground fruit of various hot chili peppers. Popular use of Cayenne as a digestive and circulatory stimulant dates back as early as the late 1700's in the United States. Today, it is used as the source of capsaicin, which is used in creams that treat pain associated with herpes-induced shingles and psoriasis. The oleoresin from red pepper is used in external OTC drugs to reduce pain assoiciated with rheumatoid arthritis.
The fruit of pepper plants.