She is known for eating and rubbing Bhut Jolokia peppers on her bare eyes.

Bhut Jolokia pods are unique among peppers, with their characteristic shape, and very thin skin.

The world's hottest pepper, the Bhut Jolokia "ghost" chili, can pack up to 10 times more heat than a traditional habañero.

The effect of climate on the Scoville rating of Bhut Jolokia peppers is dramatic.

Known as the sister chilli to the Bhut Jolokia, or Ghost Chilli.

For reference, the bhut jolokia is about 200 times hotter than a jalapeno - which surely must render it too scorching for human consumption?

While children of her age roamed the village looking for berries, she used to look for Bhut Jolokia pepper which she ate with salt.

Bhut Jolokia is used as a food and a spice as well as a remedy to summer heat, presumably by inducing perspiration in the consumer.

Bhut Jolokia chili pepper (Assam)

The Bhut Jolokia is an interspecific hybrid cultivated in the Indian states of Nagaland and Assam.

I've written before about Jake Melnick's Corner Tap, where the spicy buffalo wings are sauced with the bhut jolokia, the hottest pepper on earth.

It is made with the Bhut Jolokia pepper, which has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's hottest pepper.

It is known for exotic pork meats cooked with simple and flavourful ingredients, like the extremely hot bhut jolokia pepper, fermented bamboo shoots and soya beans.

The Guinness Book of Records has certified the bhut jolokia - aka Naga Chilli or Ghost Chilli - as the hottest pepper on earth.

Naga curry - relatively new extremely hot dish with unique savoury taste made with the highly aromatic Naga Morich or Bhut Jolokia chili pepper.

Habanero - Habanero pepper sauces are almost the hottest natural pepper sauces, only second to the Bhut jolokia or Naga jolokia.

It is an unstable three-way hybrid produced from the Naga Morich, the Bhut Jolokia and the Trinidad Scorpion (some of the world's hottest peppers).

In 2011, Guinness World Records certified the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion as the world's hottest chili pepper, 50% hotter than the Bhut Jolokia.

UK restaurants invented the recipe, and to make it the proper way requires at least 10 ground chillies, preferably the bhut jolokia, habanero, Scotch bonnet or other top-of the - heat-scale variety.

Elsewhere in India, scientists at Manipur University measured Bhut Jolokia's average Scoville rating by HPLC at only 329,100 SHU.

The ghost chili pepper (bhut jolokia), which the India military uses for grenades to aggravate terrorists out of their hiding places, used to be the hottest pepper in the universe at 1,041,427, according to Discover.

It differs to the Bhut Jolokia and Bih Jolokia in that it is slightly smaller with a pimply ribbed texture as opposed to the smoother flesh of the other two varieties.

The Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia), also known as Bhut Jolokia, ghost pepper, ghost chili pepper, red naga chilli, and ghost chilli.

Ms. Lamson, who started growing six varieties of peppers in 1993, now raises about 500 of them at her nursery in Rosemont, N.J., including the bhut jolokia, a pepper native to India that she said is the hottest in the world.

The unselected strain of Bhut Jolokia from India is an extremely variable plant, with a wide range in fruit sizes and amount of fruit production per plant, and offers a huge potential for developing much better strains through selection in the future.