Harnessing hot peppers' burn to ease surgical pain


	Harnessing hot peppers' burn to ease surgical pain

wiccantexan

10-30-2007 12:10 AM

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health, medical, healing, science, infection, pain

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10-31-2007 10:45 PM

freakSqueeker

makes a lot of sense to me, i have read and heard about this practice- (they have to be getting their peppers right here out of Texas....

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