I read that if a person severs a digit, that if you will wrap it in cayenne powder and put it on ice, the cayenne will facilitate reattachment if brought to emergency room (with patient! LOL!) in a timely manner. Something about the pepper reportedly keeps the tiny capillaries and blood vessels viable.
Thank you for that advice...my wife is clumsy, and I leave the kitchen whenever I see her starting to slice a loaf of homemade bread...I do NOT want to startle her.
I never heard that. When a neighbor sliced through Hubby’s thumb with a chainsaw, it severed a tendon. They had to transport him to a St. Louis hospital for micro-surgery.
The nurse told me that this hospital was the only one in St. Louis so far that could have handled the surgery. She also told me that any severed fingers should be put into a cooler with ice, though you have to somehow protect it from frost bite. Anyhow she didn’t say anything about pepper, but I did know that keeping in cool was important.