MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'capsaicin'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:30:30 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5057723&cid=t_129571_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Favoiding-wild-animal-attacks%2F2011.07.23 By now, most everyone is familiar with the tragic circumstances in which a visitor on a trail in Yellowstone National Park on July 6, 2011 surprised a brown (grizzly) bear with cubs, provoking a fatal attack. Fortunately, events like this are rare. At the same time, they are also predictable by virtue of our understanding of bear behavior, particularly in the wildland-urban interface. It was not the victim’s fault, and our hearts go out to his family and friends. For the benefit of others who will backpack and explore in bear country here is an excerpt about avoidance of hazardous animals, in particular bears, adapted from the book Medicine for the Outdoors: Avoidance of Hazardous Animals Most wild animal encounters can be avoided with caution and a little common sense. Follow these rule... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5057723 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:00:00 +0100 5057723 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3658932&cid=t_129571_87_f&fid=35060&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthnewsblog.com%2Fblog%2F612101 Scientists are reporting new evidence that capsaicin, the stuff that makes chili peppers hot, may cause weight loss and fight fat buildup. The scientists believe the capsaicin triggers certain beneficial protein changes in the body. The new study appears here in the ACS' monthly Journal of Proteome Research. Laboratory studies have hinted that capsaicin may help fight obesity by decreasing calorie intake, shrinking fat tissue, and lowering fat levels in the blood. Nobody, however, yet knows exactly how capsaicin might trigger such beneficial effects. In an effort to find out, the scientists fed high-fat diets with or without capsaicin to lab rats used to study obesity. The capsaicin-treated rats lost 8 percent of their body weight and showed changes in levels of at least 20 key proteins ... HealthNewsBlog.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3658932 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:00:00 +0100 3658932 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2855526&cid=t_129571_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Foctober-national-chili-month%2F Would you have known it was National Chili month if I hadn’t told you? Well, now you do. Did you know that the main “ingredient” in a chili is capsaicin? And that capsaicin can be used in a cream or ointment to help relieve pain? The burning sensation that the cream gives by stimulating the pain signals in your body, researchers believe. People often use a capsaicin cream to help relieve neuropathic (nerve) pain, such as that from shingles (herpes zoster) or diabetic neuropathy, a complication of diabetes. When I had shingles a few years ago, I did try a capsaicin cream and I can tell you one thing for sure: Be sure not to touch your eyes after you’ve rubbed the cream into your skin. You know that burning on the skin? Imagine that on your eye. This type of cream may... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2855526 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:08:48 +0100 2855526 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2095460&cid=t_129571_88_f&fid=38203&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprecordialthump.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F01%2F10%2Fa-picture-worth-a-thousand-words-viii%2F In the next few days I will be traveling to Sri Lanka. I have grave concerns about my preparedness. My most glaring oversight?… I’ve left it much too late to start building up my chili tolerance. It is easy to recall what REAL pain feels like; I just think back to being burned alive in a chili-eating competition against a pepper-proof Sri Lankan… forget about labour, renal colic or Irukandji syndrome… I mean really BAD pain! The VR1’s (vanilloid receptor subytpe 1) on my nociceptive neurons are still seared and singed from this episode of calorific capsaicinization. Fortunately I have since discovered how to cool burns from chili peppers. And, for added safety, I’m going to carry a copy of the Scoville scale of pepper pungency for ready reference… ... AEQUANIMITAS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2095460 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:05:14 +0100 2095460 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=991866&cid=t_129571_97_f&fid=35050&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmaGazette%2F%7E3%2F177271871%2Fchili_pepper_hot_sauce_used_in_surgeries.html Say What? Doctors are testing hot sauce to see if it can relieve the pain of surgery.In a previous article I explained how researchers were testing to see if the main ingredient in chili peppers, capsaicin, we able to be used as an anesthetic during surgeries (they tested on lab rats) but now doctors seem to be taking things a step further.A report on Yahoo News is stating that doctors are "dripping the chemical that gives chili peppers their fire directly into open wounds during knee replacement surgery and a few other highly painful surgeries."The experiments do use an ultra-purified version of capsaicin (thank god because THAT makes all the difference) and they have the volunteers anesthetized so they don't feel the initial searing pain (again, THANK GOD).So what'... PharmaGazette blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=991866 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:15:44 +0100 991866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=927915&cid=t_129571_97_f&fid=35050&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmaGazette%2F%7E3%2F165285425%2Fchili_peppers_as_an_anesthetic.html Researchers have found that adding capsaicin to a lidocaine derivative called QX-314 it had the ability to enter nerve cells but only the pain-sensing nocieptors.So what is capsaicin? Simple, it's the potent ingredient in chili peppers. Seems QX-134 doesn't have the ability to get through the nerve cells and that's where the chili pepper come in. Pain sensing neurons have the TRPV1 receptor which only opens when stimulated by excessive heat or a spicy compound.So far this combination has only been tested on lab rats so more work has to be done to establish if it will work on humans. If so then a "cocktail" of anesthetic and capsaicin will have to be developed to mitigate the painful effects of the capsaicin."Eventually this method could completely trans... PharmaGazette blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=927915 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:05:37 +0100 927915 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=716532&cid=t_129571_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F05%2Fsickkids-partners-to-speed-cure-research-for-diabetes%2F Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Adult Onset, Research, Products, SupportIn December 2006, The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada (SickKids) researchers found that mice injected with capsaicin -- the chemical that makes chili peppers hot -- were rapidly cured of Type 1 diabetes. Now with widespread credence following their discovery, SickKids has partnered with Approach Therapeutics to accelerate the human clinical trials for this cure. Researchers discovered that Type 1 diabetes is caused by malfunctioning pain nerves surrounding islets. These nerves mistakenly tell the brain that the islets are inflamed and the body creates insulin autoantibodies to destroy them. The researchers injected capsaicin, also known as "substance P", to kill the pancreatic pain nerves. Researc... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=716532 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 716532