Red Pepper and Functional Dyspepsia
- 21 March 2002
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 346 (12) , 947-948
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200203213461219
Abstract
Functional dyspepsia is a common and distressing chronic digestive disorder of unknown cause.1,2 We examined the effect of treatment of functional dyspepsia with capsaicin (trans-8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide), a component of red-pepper (Capsicum annum) powder. Capsaicin selectively impairs the activity of nociceptive C fibers carrying pain sensations to the central nervous system3 and has been shown to relieve pain of cutaneous and mucosal origin.4Keywords
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