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Hot Sauce Could Be the New Morphine

Chemical in chili peppers that burns also numbs—for days

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 30, 2007 11:09 AM CDT

(Newser) – Doctors think they have a hot lead on an alternative to opioid pain killers like morphine: chili peppers. California-based researchers are dripping what is essentially a sterile version of hot sauce—containing capsaicin, the chemical that gives peppers their bite—directly into open wounds during...   Read full story »

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