What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Eating Chili?

In the daily diet, chili is an essential condiment as a condiment. Some spicy food in summer will make us appetite. Eating hot pot in winter, some spicy food, makes us feel warm all over. Chili is not just for everyone. Let's sort out the advantages and disadvantages of eating chili.

(1) What benefits can eating chili bring us:

1. Protect the heart. Often eating chili can effectively delay the development of atherosclerosis.
2. Promote blood circulation. Pepper has certain medicinal properties, so it can "eliminate wind and sweat, remove phlegm, and dehumidify." Explained in modern medicine, it can promote blood circulation, improve cold, frostbite, and vascular headaches.
3. Warm stomach and dispel cold. According to "Food Materia Medica", chili can warm the spleen and stomach. If symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach pain occur when you encounter cold, you can eat some chili appropriately.
4. Skin beauty. Pepper can promote hormone secretion in the body and improve skin condition. Many people think that eating spicy food will cause acne, but it is not actually a problem with chili peppers. Only those who love acne will add fuel to the fire after eating chili.
5. Reduce fat and lose weight. Capsaicin can accelerate the decomposition of fat, and the rich dietary fiber also has a certain effect of lowering blood fat.
6. Pain relief and heat dissipation. Pepper is warm in nature, can lower body temperature through sweating, and relieve muscle pain, so it has a strong antipyretic and analgesic effect. Studies in the United States have found that capsaicin can reduce the neurotransmitters that convey pain, making people less sensitive to pain.
7. Appetizers and digestion. Pepper can promote the secretion of digestive juice and increase appetite.

(2) What harm does eating chili bring us:

1. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and hypertension should not eat peppers, and patients with chronic bronchitis, pulmonary heart disease, and tuberculosis are no exception. Because capsaicin makes the circulating blood volume increase sharply, the heartbeat speeds up, and tachycardia, taking a large amount in a short period of time can cause acute heart failure and sudden cardiac death. Even if there is no accident, it will also hinder the original cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and pulmonary lesions rehabilitation.
2. For patients with chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, and esophagitis, due to the stimulation of capsaicin, mucosal congestion, edema, erosion, and gastrointestinal peristalsis increase sharply, causing abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc., which also affect the recovery of digestive function.
3. Patients suffering from chronic cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, and chronic pancreatitis, due to the stimulation of capsaicin, increase the secretion of gastric acid. Excessive gastric acid can cause gallbladder contraction, biliary sphincter spasm, resulting in difficulty in bile discharge, thereby inducing cholecystitis, Biliary colic and pancreatitis.
4. For patients with hemorrhoids, due to the stimulation of capsaicin, the hemorrhoid veins will be congested and edematous, which can aggravate hemorrhoids and even form anal abscess. In addition, chili can aggravate constipation and make hemorrhoids heavier.
5. Patients suffering from pink eye disease and keratitis should not eat chili peppers. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the nature and flavor of chili peppers are big pungent and hot, and they are easy to get angry and aggravate the condition.
6. Parturients and pregnant women should not eat chili peppers. Not only can there be mouth sores and dry stools, but also breastfeeding babies can make them sick; if women have increased leucorrhea and pregnant women's genital itching, eating chili peppers can aggravate them.
7. Patients with hyperthyroidism should not eat chili, because their heart rate is fast, and the heartbeat will be faster after eating, and the symptoms will be more obvious.
8. Chili and pumpkin should not be eaten together. Pumpkin contains vitamin C decomposing enzymes. If it is fried with peppers that contain a lot of vitamin C, it will affect the absorption of vitamin C.
9. Chili and lamb liver should not be eaten together. Peppers contain a lot of vitamin C, and the trace metal ions contained in lamb liver can completely destroy the vitamin C in it, weakening its proper nutritional value.
10. Chili and white wine should not be eaten together.