A little hot is fine. I cured a cold once by eating a bowl of hot chili and sweating it out (was not pleasant to be around, but I felt much better). Extreme hot is just hot - kills any other flavor in the food.
I was with some guys at a higher-end Mexican restaurant years ago - one guy was sucking down chips with habanero salsa like it was candy. I tried just a bit and my face went numb for the next 15 minutes.
—” sweating it out “
Something I haven’t done in years.
Used to sweat out lingering colds, with a slightly different procedure.
NO PEPPERS, but two heavy sweatsuits over pajamas winter socks, and a winter hat.
Drink a quart of no-caf/herbal tea, go to bed late/tired with heavy winter blankets.
Wake up soggy and feeling like a wet noodle, and having to pee like a racehorse.
Worked for me.
My old German guy medical advisor always recommended linden tea from the neighborhood trees.