The advantages and disadvantages of eating green peppers

Green pepper, also known as vegetable pepper, is a very nutritious food suitable for all ages. Generally, meat, water spinach, bitter gourd and other ingredients can be eaten together, which has powerful effects such as lowering blood sugar, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion and losing weight. Although green peppers are good, they are not recommended for patients with hemorrhoids, gastroenteritis and eye diseases. In addition, since peppers are hot foods, they are not recommended for people with internal heat. Green peppers contain oxalic acid, and eating too much may affect the body's calcium absorption.

The benefits are:

Properties: spicy, hot. It can warm the middle and strengthen the stomach, dispel cold and dampness, and induce sweating.

It contains spicy ingredients, mainly capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin; it also contains volatile oils, protein, calcium, phosphorus, rich vitamin C, carotene and capsanthin.

This product has a strong local irritant effect; oral administration can increase appetite and promote gastrointestinal digestion function; capsaicin can stimulate the taste receptors of the human tongue, reflexively causing a temporary increase in blood pressure, which generally recovers after 10 to 15 minutes.

Uses: Used for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, loss of appetite, cold feeling in the abdomen, watery diarrhea; cold and dampness stagnation, poor appetite, greasy tongue coating, drowsiness, limb aches; cold and wind-cold, aversion to cold and no sweating.

harm:

Excessive preference for spicy food can easily cause imbalance of yin and yang in the internal organs and lead to disease. Excessive lung qi: Spicy food has the functions of dispersing, promoting qi and activating blood circulation. Eating too much can easily lead to excessive lung qi, which can damage qi and yin, resulting in reduced immunity and causing colds, and symptoms of "getting angry" such as dry and sore throat, red eyes, hot nasal cavity, dry mouth and tongue, chapped mouth, nosebleeds, toothache, etc. Eating too much spicy food can easily aggravate dampness and heat in the body, which can manifest as skin acne, increased blood pressure, worsening hemorrhoids, and nosebleeds.

Although chili peppers are rich in nutrients and have important medicinal value, eating too much of them can harm human health. Because too much capsaicin will severely irritate the gastrointestinal mucosa, causing it to become highly congested and peristalsis to accelerate, causing stomach pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and burning and stinging pain in the anus, inducing gastrointestinal diseases, and promoting hemorrhoidal bleeding. Therefore, people suffering from esophagitis, gastroenteritis, gastric ulcer, hemorrhoids and other diseases should eat less or avoid eating chili peppers. Since chili peppers are very spicy and hot in nature, people with hot and fiery diseases such as conjunctivitis, toothache, sore throat, hemoptysis, boils, or hypertension and tuberculosis caused by yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire should also eat them with caution.