The nature and flavor of pepper

Chili pepper is a relatively common ingredient. In Sichuan and Hunan regions, chili pepper is a must-have ingredient for every meal. This is because chili pepper can enhance the flavor and satisfy the heavy tastes in these regions. There are many kinds of peppers, and people in every place like to eat different kinds of peppers, because peppers can remove fishy smells and kill bacteria, help stimulate appetite and digestion, and dispel cold, which is very helpful in improving fear of cold and anemia.

【Name】：Chili

[Other names]: chili pepper, spicy pepper

【Pinyin】：là jiāo

【Nature】: Hot

【Taste】: Spicy

【Channel】: Heart, spleen

【Effects】: Warming the middle and dispelling cold, stimulating appetite and digestion

[Suitable]: Cold stomachache, loss of appetite, dysentery, rheumatoid arthritis, traumatic bruises, frostbite, anemia, scurvy, bleeding gums

【Contraindications】: Chronic cholecystitis, hemorrhoids, pharyngitis, tracheitis

【Features】: Strong irritating food

【describe】:

1. Appetite and dispel cold: The fruit contains capsaicin, capsaicin, nonylvanillamine, etc. Pigments include capsanthin and carotene. In addition, there are vitamin C, citric acid and so on. It has the effects of warming the middle, dispelling cold, stimulating appetite and helping digestion.

2. Promote blood circulation: Chili has a strong effect in promoting blood circulation and can improve symptoms such as fear of cold, frostbite, and vascular headaches.

Related Combinations

1. To treat dysentery and watery diarrhea: 1 hot tomato. For pills, take hot tofu skin in the morning and swallow

2. Treat frostbite: peel the tomato skin and apply it on the skin to cure it.

3. Prevent frostbite: When marching or traveling long distances in windy and snowy weather, you can apply 20% capsicum ointment to areas prone to frostbite, such as the earlobes, backs of hands, heels, etc. If frostbite has just occurred and has not yet ulcerated, use a warm water boiled with an appropriate amount of chili peppers to wash the affected area; or fry chili peppers in sesame oil to make chili oil, and apply it to the affected area.

4. Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: 20 chili peppers, 30g of Sichuan peppercorns. First boil the peppercorns in water, add the peppers and cook until soft, take them out, tear them apart, apply them to the affected area, and then apply hot compress with water.

Precautions

It is forbidden to be taken by patients with Yin deficiency, hyperactivity of fire and bleeding.

Chemical composition

1. Pepper fruits contain capsaicinoids, mainly capsaicin, dihydrocapsaicin, nordihydrocapsaicin, homocapsaicin, homodihydrocapsaicin, nonanoylvanillamide, and octanoylvanillamide. It also contains a variety of low-boiling and high-boiling volatile carboxylic acids such as isobutyric acid, isovaleric acid, n-valeric acid, crotonoleic acid, cis-2-methylbutenoic acid, heptanoic acid, decanoic acid, isodecanoic acid, pyruvic acid, caprylic acid and lauric acid. In addition, it also contains β-carotene, cryptoxanthin, zeaxanthin, capsanthin, capsanthin, violaxanthin, solanine, solanidine and citric acid, tartaric acid, malic acid, etc.

2. The seeds contain solanine, solanidine, 4α-methyl-5α-cholest-8(14)-en-3β-ol, cycloartanol, cycloartenol, 24-methylenecycloartanol and lupeol.

3. The fruits of the same genus plant, Capsicum annuum, contain capsaicin.