Posted by Cheryl (Nashville, TN) on 11/24/2025
★★★★★
Results from a couple of incidents in our family:
Several years ago I cut one of my fingers pretty badly from wiping over the blade of a food chopper with a paper towel. The blood started spewing out of the wound so that some of it flew onto the wall. I had read that black pepper (the spice) could stop cuts from bleeding. So, after quicky washing the cut, I poured a considerable amount of black pepper on it. It stopped the bleeding right away! I bandaged the finger and had no more problem with it bleeding.
Fast forward to day before yesterday, and my younger sister cut her finger on the sharp edge of something as she was trying to set up a small appliance and it started bleeding pretty profusely. After she washed the wound with soap and water, while the blood was still running out of it, I went to the cupboard and shook some black pepper into the cut. The bleeding stopped immediately. She put a bandage on it and the next day when she took the bandage off, it was healing, with little sign of blood on the bandage!
Posted by Doris (Orange County, CA USA) on 01/06/2009
★★★★★
Black Pepper is loaded with vitamin E. It is a great healer for cuts and scars. Hiking and camping friends all take a shaker along. Once at campout, a climber cut along his finger while climbing. Looked like it could ahve taken 2 or 3 stitches. We watched him pull his salt and pepper shakers from plastic baggies in his backpack. He sprinkled just a dash of table salt in center of his palm, put canteen water in his palm and rinsed it over the cut (stung briefly he said). Then he spriinkled ground black pepper right out of the shaker right onto the cut (said it really stings, but only for a moment, then is numb). He wrapped a clean gauze 2inch square and taped it on (all we had was duct tape!). Next morning changed the bandage (no need to reapply pepper). Cut was half healed. Headed home, 3 days later his cut was gone - and no scar, no pain, full use of finger. Changed dressing daily or as needed. He didn't mess with or touch the wound, just re-dressed it and kept it clean. I wet a washcloth, sprinkled some on, and gently rub it over my old childhood leg injury scar. So far, scar looks stronger healthier, skin not so pale, frail, thin anymore.
