If you think you're having a heart attack...

[knightofalbion]

"The best thing to do is to crunch a 300 mg aspirin (standard size, preferably soluble) and swallow it. This will give an immediate blood-thinning action which can help open the artery"
- Dr Graham Jackson, cardiologist.

Also, needless to say, ring for an ambulance ASAP.

[jfh]

Originally Posted by knightofalbion

Also, needless to say, ring for an ambulance ASAP.

My favorite TV programs on a Saturday night are the British comedies. Our public sponsored broadcasting station (PBS) shows a few. My favorite is As Time Goes Bye. I guess I'm a romantic. I'm saying that I really like British humor.

But I'm not real familiar with British sarcasm when mixed with comedy. ...so forgive me if I'm stepping on something.

The aspirin would most likely work in a "crunch". The best would be very high heat cayenne, but who carries that around?

[knightofalbion]

Hello Jim. Nice to meet you.

No, you're okay. No offence taken.

Absolutely no sarcasm there Jim. Taking the aspirin is just a holding job, its not a cure. If 'you' have had or think you're having a heart attack, you should seek medical help as soon as you can - wouldn't want to give the impression otherwise.

Of course, the root cause of how 'you' came to reach such a poor state of heart health in the first place needs to be addressed, be it bad diet or stress or both, but that's another issue.

I'm no fan of aspirin I must say. I have to be in a pretty miserable state before I take one, but in this instance it's a life saver.

Just a simple aspirin, it sounds almost too good to be true, but it does work.

Incidentally Jim, some time back the journal of the American Heart Association stated that up to 10,000 more people annnually could survive a heart attack simply by chewing a 325 mg aspirin at the first chest pain or other heart attack symptom, so ...

[knightofalbion]

Here is an article on the subject that explains things a bit more fully...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...y-aspirin.html

[jfh]

And here is how to stop a heart attack with cayenne pepper.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4816818_stop...ne-pepper.html

Aspirin and cayenne are only band-aids. They only cure symptoms.

[D Bergy]

I have Cayenne pepper capsules that I bought for a different reason, but I keep them around just in case.

Another use for the capsules is they will speed up bowel movements. That was not the effect I was after, but that is the effect I got.

Dan

[knightofalbion]

Originally Posted by jfh

And here is how to stop a heart attack with cayenne pepper.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4816818_stop...ne-pepper.html

Aspirin and cayenne are only band-aids. They only cure symptoms.

Hello Jim. Many thanks for the information. Very interesting indeed. That is certainly worth knowing.