Why is everyone so against a little alcohol? A little alcohol is good for you. Cayenne tincture should be made with alcohol. You can make it yourself with 80 proof vodka and cayenne or fresh (hot) peppers. If fresh peppers, cut them up and put in blender container, fill empty space with vodka and blend (just enough vodka to cover). Put in a jar and shake up every day for a week or so and then strain. You can do the same thing with the ground dried cayenne but you may need to use a different gage for filling with alcohol (add vodka to cover and go above the cayenne by one third of the volume for example, I mean add more vodka). Make it strong. Just don't be drinking more than a couple of droppers full at a time, or more than a shot... ;-))
One MD (David Williams) is recommending drinking one or two cups of Irish coffee at the first sign of a heart attack... Richard Schulze (I think it was) recounts a story of an herbalist throwing a pinch of cayenne in his own eye at the start of a lecture to prove that cayenne wouldn't harm the eye. It didn't. With this in mind and some experience using lesser doses of cayenne in an eyewash I decided to test the theory. I threw a large pinch of cayenne into my eye. I really wished I hadn't for about 20 minutes, it really hurt. After that the eye was perfectly fine. Half vinegar and half alcohol is used to make a tincture of lobelia. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Ed Kasper [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: CS>Cayenne Thanks Julie. I make a cayenne extract with my kombucha distilled vinegar (2% acetic acid). I use 180,000 HU. It has a tendency to fall out of suspension and has to be shaken. Even with the low percentage acetic acid it doe not seem to attract mold, but long term storage may be a problem. Tabasco Sauce uses vinegar and vinegar is extremely healthy for you especially compared to alcohol. I have also made kombucha mushroom tea using cayenne and comes out really spicy. Tabasco is hotter and tastier but it is a different pepper. Lots of peppers are hotter than cayenne - some over 1,000,000 HU, so IMO, I don't think Tabasco would work. I seem to know a lot of folks who gobble down really hot peppers daily and they seem to have the same problems as the rest of people who don't eat hot peppers so cayenne must have special attributes otherwise Dr Christopher, Shultz, and others would have used even hotter peppers or simply Tabasco sauce. One thing I am leery of is the claim that cayenne scan/should be used in the eyes. I trained police for years in the use of pepper spray, as a matter of policy (and group pressure) I had to be pepper sprayed and it did knock me down with for what I thought was a long recovery time. Police pepper spray is simply capsicum oil (cayenne pepper) and water and pressure. maybe I should practice up for the coming events. In your opinion what would be the difference if one used vinegar instead of alcohol ? Ed Kasper LAc. Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist Santa Cruz, CA. -----Original Message----- From: julie martin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: CS>Cayenne Ed, the two bottles i have are from different companies. one says "neutral grain spirits (38%), distilled water." the other says "extracted with 95%grain alcohol and distilled water." i also keep the powder on hand to make a hot tea with, which after you get used to it is pretty good. i try to buy the freshest available and the highest heat units. i would use the powder for any cut to stop bleeding and would reach for any form of cayenne before i took nitro. julie > I was just wondering if you cayenne extract was an alcohol based >extraction or what solvent was used, maybe vinegar? any ideas? Ed Kasper LAc. Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist Santa Cruz, CA. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
