How To Cure Hives With Cayenne Pepper

By Emma Deangela

Hives are the allergic reaction to a drug or food. An allergic reaction occurs when the immune system overreacts to a particular substance or allergen. Examples of these substances are dust mites, molds, animal dander, insect bites, chemicals, and foods. The body's immune system that fights substances it perceives as the enemy like bacterias and viruses, uses a few chemical to attack such enemies.

One of the chemicals used to treat allergic reactions is histamine. It rouses the hives associated with an allergic reaction. You can also experience hives due to excessive exercise and sweating, emotional stress, medicines, wearing new or unwashed fitting clothes, too much heat or cold and health problems. There are also times when the reason for the hives can't be determined.

Hives range from a few millimeters short to a couple of inches long. It can also come in different shapes such as sphere, big clusters and ring-shape. They're usually itchy and inflamed welts on the skin. Swelling usually occurs on the tongue, lips, ears and eyes. It can seriously make you look ugly. Hives can be experienced once or frequently in instances where a person has a chronic problem.

Though hives commonly appear on any skin surface, they spare the palms and soles of the feet more often than not. The swelling of the lips and tongue in particular can be serious and life threatening due to the airway obstruction. Some people only experience hives once in a while whenever they eat a certain food or food additives. While others have hives as a chronic problem which can actually extend for many years. That is why if you want to speed up the healing process of your hives, then taking cayenne pepper is the remedy that you really need.

Before trying this type of medication, you have to be certain that you're not allergic to cayenne pepper in any way. If you take this and you happen to be allergic to it, the hives might get worse. Taking cayenne pepper capsules hasten the healing process of hives, it does not give immediate relief. Just make sure to take the capsules until all the hives are gone.

You may also try the hot massage oil by cayenne pepper. Combine an ounce of cayenne pepper together with two tablespoons of mustard powder, two inches of ginger root, two tablespoons of ground black pepper and a 300ml of a vegetable oil. Put all the ingredients into a pan of water and simmer slowly for two hours. Be careful not to burn the oil for it will be useless and must be discarded. After this, you can strain it when it has cool down. You may then use it as a healing massage oil on the affected areas of your body due to hives.

More simply, you can drink a mixture of teaspoon powdered cayenne pepper and a glass of drinking water. This drink will be really hot, especially during the first few times you'll take it. Don't worry because you will get used to its taste and your hives will heal too.

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