Doctors have been experimenting with bizarre forms of pain relief: Chili peppers and nicotine patches. The irony is that both objects are synonymous with pain.
Nicotine Patches, synonymous with withdrawal symptoms, administered before surgery, relieve pain afterward. Capsaicin ( chili pepper juice) is rubbed directly into the open wounds. When the wounds are stitched and healing, the patients feel reduced pain.
These seem like miracle drugs, but it was a long, hard road to these discoveries.
Some failed experiments included, sharp stick to treat eye pain, pebble in shoe to cure flatfeet, eating cheeseburger to stop heart attack and bad haircut to cure ugliness.
Nicotine patches also help people quit smoking.
An anesthesiologist or a pain management specialist is the kind of doctor that you can pay to rub chili pepper juice into your wounds. They may also, in a way that can not be considered ironic, give a patient a nicotine patch before they have a lung removed.
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