A Summary Story of my Personal Experience with Praprika as a means to control
"needles and pins" attacks. Jock McTavish, mctavjoc@shaw.ca |
I have had to endure prickly sensations in my hands and feet, legs and
arms for a few days at a time every few weeks steadily since the start.
It's cyclic coming and going made it difficult to complain about, but last
year it got desperately worse.
A research of alternative remedies found cayenne suggested very often, so I tried it with dramatic results. Within 10 minutes of taking a 150 mg capsule of the spice, the intense needle-like pain would cease! But oh my, how that burns the belly. So I had to take 3 tums tablets each time too. When I shared this with the ms-diet list group, no others found a similar relief, and those that tried found the heartburn unbearable. So after a few months, I did some internet research trying to figure out why cayenne worked, and more, why it worked so quickly. The basic explanation was that it improved blood flow. The active ingredient was capsaicin. And this was the "heat" in the various pepper families. Paprika was mentioned as another source of capsaicin. So I tried. It works. Takes 20 minutes, not 5, but there is no heartburn. So I take a capsule a day, and keep a few in my pocket for when the needles show up - usually when I've been sitting for too long. The photos below show how I make up the capsules. |
21 May 07