the dark cow of mystery

Hot sauce has many medicinal uses.
The most notable of the multitude of uses is to protect your food from being eaten by others, but there are many others.
the next is a variation of the first. It can protect your food from you. Yes, it's a rather cruel diet, but that'll teach you to over eat, or it'll increase your tolerance for pain, and neither of those is half bad.
Also, the chemical in peppers -hey, holmes, peppers are usually the main ingredient to hot sauce- that makes them seem hot causes improved overall blood flow. This is always a good thing.
Then there it's use as a topical ointment, which increases blood flow and helps healing, especially useful in sports.
Oh, and one can never forget it's uses in clearing the throat and the reopening of the sinuses. When mixed in drinks/soups or used in smothering foods, hot sauce will get you up and walking again if you have a cold. Also, it'll do the same thing if you have the flu, though you'll probably be headed to the bathroom.
Unfortunately, it can't be used for curing cataracts, and for gods sake, don't make me explain that one.