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You know you’re enjoying cayenne peppers when your eyes are watering, your nose is running and you break out in a sweat!

On the Scoville scale of heat units, cayenne peppers come in at 30-50,000! To put that in perspective, pepperoncini comes in at just 100-500 and jalapeno peppers score 2,500-8,000. So when it comes to hot, cayenne peppers push the limits of most palates. (Though there are many peppers that are even hotter!)[1]

Cayenne pepper—one of the …

This medicine-cabinet makeover will replace your pharmaceutical or OTC drugs with healthier natural remedy options. Whether you’re plagued by headache pain or only occasionally bothered by a case of the sniffles, your medicine cabinet is probably the first place you turn to for relief. But, are its contents the best choices for your health?

Consider replacing some of those myriad pills (especially acetaminophen, ibuprofen and antihistamines), sprays, and bottles in your medicine cabinet with natural alternative medicine such …