Usage examples (9)

• It has similar use as a counterirritant to that of the previously described cayenne plaster.
• A good counterirritant is made by first spreading a thin layer of honey on a gauze or bandage upon which powdered cayenne pepper is generously sprinkled.
• This intelligence, which, at any other time, would have been received with rapturous enthusiasm, was listened to under the influence of a counterirritant already at...
• It might be employed like the nettle (Urtica), as a counterirritant in epilepsies, and diseases requiring stimulating applications.