Green pepper has many aliases. Pepper, lantern pepper and persimmon pepper are all its names. Because it can bear sweet berries, it is also called sweet pepper and vegetable pepper. Green pepper is an annual or perennial herb, which is characterized by large fruit, light and spicy taste or even not spicy at all. It is used as a vegetable rather than a condiment. Because of its bright green color, the newly cultivated varieties have many colors such as red, yellow and purple, which can be widely used not only as a dish, but also as a side dish.

Green pepper is evolved from pepper native to tropical areas of Central and South America. After long-term cultivation, domestication and artificial selection, the fruit size changed, the pulp became thicker, the spicy taste disappeared, and the number of carpels and ovary cavities increased. China was introduced more than 0/00 years ago, and now it is widely cultivated all over the country.

Green pepper pulp is thick and crisp, rich in vitamin C, olive contains about 93.9% water, about 3.8% carbohydrate and vitamin C; Red ripe fruit contains up to 460 mg of vitamin C. It can be cold-mixed, fried, steamed, stuffed, pickled, canned and made into candied fruit.

Pepper, also known as pepper, sea pepper, pepper, pepper, pepper and so on. It is a capsicum plant of Solanaceae. Capsicum belongs to Panicum. Fruit is usually conical or rectangular, green when immature, bright red, yellow or purple when mature, with red being the most common. The causal skin of pepper contains capsaicin, which is spicy. Can stimulate appetite. The content of vitamin C in pepper ranks first among vegetables.

Pepper is native to tropical areas of Central and South America. /kloc-At the end of 0/5, Columbus brought pepper back to Europe after discovering America, and pepper also spread to other parts of the world. It was introduced to China in Ming Dynasty. There is a record of pepper in Chen Haozi's "Flower Mirror" in Qing Dynasty. Nowadays, it is widely planted in all parts of China and has become a popular vegetable.

Alias Chili, Chili, Horn Pepper, Red Sea Pepper, Sea Pepper, Fan Pepper, Big Pepper and Spicy Tiger.

It comes from capsicum frutescens [C. annuum L.] of Capsicum of Solanaceae, and its fruits, roots and stems are used as medicine. In June and July, when the fruit is red, it is harvested and dried.

Sexual taste and meridian tropism: pungent and hot.

Functional indication

Results: Warming the middle warmer to dispel cold, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion. Used for stomach cold pain, flatulence and dyspepsia; External use for chilblain, rheumatalgia and lumbago.

Root: promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling. Frostbite for external use.

Usage and dosage: fruit 1 ~ 3 money; Apply appropriate amount of root externally, decoct and wash the affected area.

Pay attention to patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers, acute gastritis, tuberculosis, hemorrhoids or eye diseases.

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(1) There are many kinds of peppers, among which: morning pepper. Trypanosoma (mill. ) Bailey; Pepper. Sturt (bundle). ) Bailey; Pepper. Pointy fingers. ; Morning pepper, a kind of long pepper. In short, the fruit can be long and spicy, round and not spicy, such as persimmon pepper (persimmon pepper) is not used as medicine, green pepper is not used as medicine.

(2) Pepper is irritating, and people with sores, toothaches, hemorrhoids and eye diseases are not suitable for eating.

Pepper is not clear