"Unless there are some benefits, aside from bragging rights, that you can't get from other peppers, I don't see why you should torture yourself."
I agree with you on this. Somehow there seems to be this misguided notion that has set in when it comes to using cayenne type peppers for medicinal purposes....like, the more a pepper burns you, the better it is .... ? This is unfortunate. This kind of thinking helps to lead some newbies away from using any / all herbs for medicine because of the needless bad experiences they had with the hot peppers.