Current clinical indications for use of topical capsaicin
| Low-concentration capsaicin creams (0.025% or 0.075%) to relieve pain |
| Postherpetic neuralgia |
| Diabetic neuropathy |
| Postmastectomy pain syndrome |
| Stump pain |
| Reflex sympathetic dystrophy |
| Trigeminal neuralgia |
| Oral neuropathic pain |
| Osteoarthritis |
| Rheumatoid arthritis |
| Fibromyalgia |
| Guillain-Barré syndrome |
| Meralgia paraesthetica |
| Burning mouth syndrome |
| High-concentration capsaicin creams (10%) to ameliorate pain |
| Intractable pain due to bilateral peripheral neuropathy |
| Capsaicin creams to relieve itch |
| Psoriasis |
| Hemodyalisis |
| Aquagenic pruritus |
| Vulvar vestibulitis |
| Notalgia paraesthetica |
| Brachioradial pruritus |
| Lichen simplex chronicus |
| Intranasal capsaicin drops (10 mM) |
| Cluster headache |
| Vasomotor rhinitis |
| Perennial allergic rhinitis |
| Intravesical capsaicin solution (10 mM) |
| Bladder hypersensitivity |
| Spinal detrusor hyperreflexia |
See section XII for references.