I picked up a pound of organic Thai and Jalapeño peppers at the farm market today for $3. Next week the farmer's going to pull up a couple Thai and Jalapeño plants loaded with peppers which I just hang upside down and use during the winter in stews, stuffed peppers, stuffed cabbage, soups. I used to be able to get a couple bushes of cayenne peppers but the last few years no luck. So it'll be just the cayenne powder from the health food store. Great in scrambled eggs. You have to be careful not to touch your eye after cutting those things, even after washing with soap and water and a half hour later. Amazingly though you can sprinkle cayenne powder on a finger cut and it'll stop the bleeding immediately. I tried it and it doesn't sting.

“Cayenne is also known as Capsicum. The loose powder can be sprinkled onto a bleeding cut, wound, or injury and it will stop the bleeding. This is useful for general, non emergency bleeding too. If you've tried applying pressure to a bleeding cut and it just doesn't seem to want to stop for instance, just sprinkle cayenne powder all over the bleeding area and it will stop. The cayenne powder does not burn or blister either. It may feel a little hot, but that's about it.”
http://www.compleatmother.com/womens-health/herbs/emergencies.shtml

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To respond to Bot, I love using habanero pepper in omelettes. As far as the paint goes, I don't see how they could have any effect once the paint dries, but what do I know.

I can say that nurserymen buy a hot pepper mixture, dilute it with water and apply to interior foliage to keep certain pests away.

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I use them every day and like bot, grow my own. Still producing currently.

I would never mix cayenne with boat paint. CuSO4 seems to keep the barnacles off well enough, for the short periods I leave my painted hulls int he water. At $200/gal, I think mixing an organic powder in would be risky indeed, would dull the surface and possibly compromise the purpose of the paint.

Funny story: wife is a vegetarian, and several years ago we went to a hippy skippy veggie joint. I ordered the black bean chili. It was bland so I asked for tabasco or similar. Waitress returned with a pamphlet about how capsaisin encouraged rage and agitation in primarily males, so they didn't carry it in their eatery. Last trip there, yo!

I have always added a healthy dose of cayenne to brownies--perfect!

You symmetrically-faced, capsaicin-enraged alpha male, you!

I would think substituting the customer's hot sauce with a pamphlet would incite more rage and agitation than the hot sauce.

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