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Eating hot peppers

Author:      don meissner
Text:        Does eating hot peppers actually cause physical damage to the 
mouth considering there is so much perceived pain?

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Author:      psych
Text:        I have never heard of peppers causing physical damage directly.  
Indirectly due to histamine release there might be some damage but not 
usually.  The pain I would suspect is almost all due to direct and overly 
intense neurologic stimulation.

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