Ok, I hope you don’t ever need to use this cayenne pepper home remedy to stop bleeding, but if you do, well, it’s a good one to know about.

This is my son Gabriel. He likes to climb trees, tinker with things, fix things, ride horses, ride his bike really fast, read Calvin and Hobbs and cook!

He was fixing his bike, spinning the wheel around really quickly and his finger got caught in the disk brake. OUCH.

He ran into the house, “Mommmmmmmmmmm!”

Blood everywhere. I couldn’t see how bad it was… Let’s go to the sink…

I ran tepid water on his finger for a minute and just let it bleed, with the room temperature water running gently on his middle finger.

Ok, it looked kind of bad, part of his finger was missing, the bleeding didn’t look like it was going to stop anytime soon and Gabriel was screaming. I needed a home remedy to stop bleeding and get him settled down if we were going to get to the ER to stitch this mess up.

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Cayenne Pepper: A Home Remedy to Stop Bleeding

I had him lift his finger up and I started pouring cayenne pepper on the finger. I just kept pouring on the cayenne pepper, about ½ cup. Then the blood stopped. Presto, the bleeding stopped. Whew.

I must confess, over the years, I have helped many people with this home remedy to stop bleeding, like with simple knife cuts while cutting veggies in the kitchen, so I really trust the remedy.

However, I hadn’t ever used cayenne on this big of a wound. When I first started pouring the cayenne pepper on Gabriel’s mangled finger, I thought, “I hope this works…”

The really amazing thing about this remedy is that it also helps reduce the pain. I know. Hard to believe, but it does. So now Gabriel was sitting down, no blood, not as much pain, but it was clear that he needed stitches.

Dad held him and started telling Gabriel about when he was just about Gabriel’s age, how he broke his nose… 8 stitches later, well, this week is going to be a little different than we thought.

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Cayenne Pepper Precaution

Now, the biggest precaution I want you to really hear me on is this: with all the chaos and high stress that comes with a bleeding finger, well, you just start to forget that you have cayenne pepper on your hands.

If anyone involved even slightly rubs their eyes, well, let’s just say it is very painful to have cayenne pepper in your eyes…

Make sure everyone washes their hands thoroughly and no hands in your eyes!

So Gabriel has been kind of lying around all week and is on the mend. No riding horses for a while…

There you have it. Cayenne pepper, hemostatic superstar. The spice that stops bleeding.

Cayenne pepper can stop bleeding and reduces pain, not just for minor cuts, but lacerations, which are deep cuts that have gone into the fat tissue.

Cayenne Pepper to Stop Bleeding

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