If it is applied to the skin, a warm or even burning sensation results. Heet Liniment was responsible for the development of the scientific scale used to measure pepper hotness. Archaeologists have found remains of hot chilies in Mexican sites dating to 7000 B.C., and the fiery fruits of the capsicum plant played and important role in ancient Aztec and Mayan mythology. In 1912 Bearnard Scoville, a pharmacologist working for Lancelot Davis, needed to standardize the pepper extract used to make Heet. Muscle Aches and Remedies Part 3 Capsacin is the HOT in hot peppers. Capsaicin is so strong that people can detect it at a concentration as low as just one part in eleven million.

Nowadays high-tech machines measure the hotness of peppers which range from 3,000 to. Some of these lotions have been around a long time. He invented a scale that required a panel of tasters.

It is one of our oldest medicinal herbs.

This effect led to the inclusion of hot peppers or capsaicin in many muscle soothers, and arthritis rubs, including Heet liniment, ThermoRub Lotion, Sloan's Liniment, Stimurub, and Omega Oil.