★★★★★
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!
