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Harnessing hot peppers' burn to ease surgical pain
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10-30-2007 12:10 AM
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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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