On 24 Jan, 13:15, Sacha wrote:
I learned the other day from our local pharmacist that capsicum is one of
the ingredients in a cream used to alleviate the pain of shingles. *Has
anyone tried this OR just rubbing a cut, raw capsicum onto their skin?!

You can't rub capsicum in a cut, it will burn! It is used to bring a
sensation of warmth to muscle pains and thus aleviate the pain. Most
of the rub on cream on the market have capsicum in them.