Check this out. So the last few nights I had been recording my resting heart rate at around 55 bpm. And then yesterday's ... mishap ... occurred and I already knew about packing cayenne powder into a wound, but last night I did more reading on it, and found that drinking a teaspoon of it in warm water actually is supposed to balance out blood pressure, also facilitating the stoppage of bleeding. So I thought okay I'll have some now, since it's leaking inside the finger cot. And then as I continued reading testimonials, the claims were more and more surprising all the way from alleviation of chronically itchy and red or dry skin, to emergency salvation from a heart attack! So I thought, hmmm, I wonder what my RHR will be after drinking that cayenne tea.... I measured last night and again this morning. My RHR is 49 bpm!! Crazy!
Needless to say I'm about to have another glass. Oh and one testimonial said that he gave up coffee in favor of a teaspoon of cayenne in hot water per day, saying it gives him the same alertness and energy without the jitteriness of coffee. Interesting.