Originally Posted By: Macgyver
Cayenne pepper is one thing that I have used with success to dissolve blood clots in the body and overcome thromboses. It works topically to help with bleeding and it has been used for emergency application (by mouth in water) to cause rapid clotting of internal bleeding which has been lifesaving by herbalists for many years.

Seems like a rather glaring contradiction here? On the one hand you claim cayenne pepper dissolves blood clots. In the next sentence you claim it causes rapid clotting of internal bleeding.

Is it a "coagulant" which increases the formation of blood clot?
Or is it an "anticoagulant" which reduces the tendency to clot (but does not dissolve clots that have already formed).
Or is it a "thrombolytic" which actually dissolves clots that have formed?

It can't be all three at once.
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