If for example your freezing to death or something along those lines, could you use spices to warm your body up, would embarrassment work the same
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Spices don’t make you warm. The principle “hot” spice chemical is called capsaicin. It fools the heat receptors in your skin, including on your tongue, into firing at body temperature, instead of when exposed to warm objects. This leads to your body responding as if you were hot. Blood rushes to the surface of the skin making it hot to the touch and red. You start to sweat. If the heat receptors fire too much they will activate pain sensors and it will feel like you are burning. It is all an illusion, though. Your body’s reaction to the spices will lead to your body loosing heat faster as warm blood at your skin and increased sweating pull heat away from your core and you would die faster in extreme cold due to the spices than you would have otherwise.
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