Benefit of Chili

Benefit of Chili

Chili is a plant belonging to the Solanaceae plant family. This spicy fruit crops are widely used as a spice in cuisines throughout the world.

These plant species are most often used include Capsicum annum, Capsicum frutescens, Capsicum Chinense, Capsicum pubescens, and Capsicum baccatum.

Chillies contain the chemical compound called capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide). In addition, also contained many compounds that are similar to capsaicin, called capsaicinoids. When eaten, the compounds capsaicinoids bind to receptors in the mouth and throat pain, causing a spicy flavor.

These receptors then send signals to the brain that say that something has eaten spicy. This signals the brain responds by increasing heart rate, increasing transpiration, and releases endorphins.

Red chili peppers contain large amounts of vitamin C, also contain carotene (pro-vitamin A). The content of both substances is not too high on the kind of yellow and green.

Many people say that chilli is bad for health. But that statement seems to have rectified. It also has health benefits for the body, such as:

a. Capsaicin, the ability to kill cancer cells in laboratory experiments on rats.
b. Recent studies indicate that capsaicin is able to lose weight in obese people.
c. Capsaicin is used to kill nerve cells in the pancreas of rats with diabetes type 1, 
    this allows the cells that produce insulin to start making insulin again.
d. Foods containing chilli can slow the process of occurrence of cardiovascular
    disease risk.
e. Considered capable of controlling microbial contamination in food.
f. Some studies suggest that capsaicin has a protective benefit of anti-infected
   gastric ulcer bacterium H. pylori

The following examples of its use for treatment:

Benefit of Chili
Increase vitality or fitness of the body.

Take six eggs chili Javanese washed, then ground into a powder. Take all three stem dry petai China that have been made of flour, two egg yolks, and honey to taste.

Egg yolk stirred, and then inserted into the powder and flour petai china. This dough plus honey, stirring until evenly distributed, and ready to be drunk every day. This herb can increase fitness and vitality and sexual appetite.

Clean the uterus after childbirth.

Wash three grams of chili roots java, then dried and ground into a powder. Brewing a cup of hot water. This herb can be taken daily. In addition to cleaning the womb, this herb can also be used for a tonic for men.

Overcoming cramps.

Provide three leaves of chili java, then washed, and finely ground. Brewed with a glass of hot water. Drunk while still warm to the belly to overcome.

Getting rid of stomach aches and bloating.

Rinse chilies two points and one rhizome lempuyang java, ground into powder. Apply or stick on a sore body part or parts of a bloated stomach.

However, pregnant mothers are advised not to consume this herb, because it was feared could disrupt the process of pregnancy.
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