Re: VV chili ointment, article in Magazine

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I've used that stuff for back pain.

It burns. You'd have to be one tough cookie to

put it down there! Also, I think it might cause

permanent insensistitivty ??

ts thielke wrote:

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> You all are probably way ahead of me on this, but in the May issue of

> " Natural Health " magazine, e Fugh-Berman MD has a small article on

> Vulvodynia as pasrt of a womens health column.

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> She says the usual, we dont know enough about it, oxolates appear only

> part of the story, its unclear if there is one cuase, etc. But the whol

> thing is very sympathetic and open, and she emphasizes it is not

> psychological " in most cases " and women who have it need emotional

> support.

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> She says also

> " It may seems like a bizarre idea, but chili pepper cream can help

> vulvar pain. Capsaicin, which gives chili peppers their heat, helps

> interrupt pain signals by reducing a pain messenger called Substance P.

> Capsaicin cream should be rubbed onto the painful area twice a day (it

> may burn a bit the first application or two, but that shouldn't last).

> Two strengths of capsaicin cream are commercially available, but it's

> the lower sterngth, the .025 percent formula, that should be used.

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> Her credit says:

> e Fugh-Berman is assistant clinical professor of health care

> sciences at Washington University School of Medicine and Health

> Sciences and practices herbal and nutritional medicine at the GW Center

> for Integrative Medicine.

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> Gee, I didnt know they had such a place in my home town!

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> Nonetheless, my personal vote is " Ix Nay " on the chili cream on an

> already burning vulva, but hey..........its a personal choice.

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