FREE: Hot Thai Bird's Eye Chile--10 Seeds

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Thai Red Hot Chili Seeds. Beautiful ornamental pepper, perfect for container planting or ground planting. ~80,000 Scovile Heat Units (SHU)
Chili peppers contain a substance called capsaicin, which gives peppers their characteristic pungence, producing mild to intense spice when eaten. Capsaicin is a potent inhibitor of substance P, a neuropeptide associated with inflammatory processes. The hotter the chili pepper, the more capsaicin it contains. Capsaicin is being studied as an effective treatment for sensory nerve fiber disorders, including pain associated with arthritis, psoriasis, and diabetic neuropathy. When subjects injected with a substance that causes inflammatory arthritis were fed a diet that contained capsaicin, they had delayed onset of arthritis, and also significantly reduced inflammation