Easy Peasy Curry

Curry Spices Help Cury Flue Spicy foods can make your nose run and eyes water, but they are also great natural decongestants. So which spices, specifically will help? Cayenne pepper features in many of our dishes. It’s a great spice to use in place of black pepper in your everyday cooking too, especially for anyone suffering from Candida, in which case black pepper is ill-advised. Traditional medicine has used capsaicin, the active ingredient in cayenne, for centuries as a pain reliever and to help with circulation and digestive problems and to aid a poor appetite. Although no research has examined foods containing cayenne pepper and flu symptoms, research has found that nasal sprays containing capsaicin may reduce congestion. A 2011 study published in “Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology” found that subjects that used the capsaicin nasal spray over a period of two weeks had less congestion. We find it preferable to eat our curries rather than snort them, however