It included versions of the national mash-up, emadatse, which combines ingredients like potatoes, cheese, and rice with chilies whose heat levels range from pleasantly sinus-dilating to throat-singeing to turns-your-head-into-a-cartoon-factory-whistle.

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The study, published last year in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, involved laboratory work with sinus tissue samples from 56 people.

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Its fans will tell you that it relieves a variety of ills--from asthma, hay fever and sinus infections to chronic pain, arthritis, inflammation and migraine.

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