Eating some chili peppers can dispel cold and whet your appetite. However, most people with weak body are deficient in yin and have excessive fire. Eating too much chili peppers is more likely to cause internal heat, injuring yin and consuming qi, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire. .
People with yin deficiency often present with dry throat, bitter mouth, congestion of eyes, top-heavy, irritable and irritable. If you eat more chili peppers, it will not only worsen the above symptoms, but also easily lead to bleeding, allergies and inflammation. , In severe cases, abscesses and infections may also occur.
In addition to thin people who should not eat more chili peppers, people with the following diseases should eat less chili peppers:
1. Patients with hemorrhoids. If patients with hemorrhoids consume a large amount of spicy foods such as peppers, it will irritate the gastrointestinal tract, aggravate the pain of hemorrhoids, and even cause symptoms such as bleeding. Hemorrhoid patients should drink more water, eat more fruits, and eat less or no chili peppers.
2. Patients with eye diseases. People suffering from eye diseases such as pinkeye and keratitis will aggravate their condition by eating chili peppers. During the treatment process, eating a large amount of spicy foods such as chili, ginger, garlic, pepper, mustard, etc. will also affect the curative effect.
3. Patients with chronic cholecystitis. People with chronic cholecystitis should avoid eating spicy foods such as chili peppers, white wine, mustard, etc., because these foods can stimulate gastric acid secretion and can easily cause gallbladder contraction and induce biliary colic.
4. Those with poor gastrointestinal function. Although eating chili peppers can increase appetite, if people with poor gastrointestinal function eat chili peppers, it will cause inflammation of the gastrointestinal mucosa.
5. People with fever. For those with fever, constipation, epistaxis, dry mouth, sore throat and other fever symptoms, eating spicy food will aggravate the symptoms.
6. Maternity. Within a week after giving birth, mothers who eat chili peppers will not only make themselves angry and suffer from symptoms such as constipation, but will also have adverse effects on the baby through milk, aggravating the baby's internal heat.
7. Oral ulcers. The patient's mouth is sensitive to salty, spicy, sour, bitter and other tastes, and eating chili peppers will aggravate the pain.
8. Patients with hyperthyroidism. Patients with hyperthyroidism are often in a state of high excitement, so they should not eat spicy foods such as peppers. And because patients with hyperthyroidism are prone to tachycardia, eating chili peppers will make the heart beat faster and aggravate the symptoms.
In fact, normal people should eat spicy food in moderation and should do it according to their own tolerance. Otherwise, eating too much is also harmful to health. Although there are many benefits of eating chili peppers regularly, excessive consumption can be harmful to human health. Because too much capsaicin will severely stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, causing it to become highly congested and accelerate peristalsis, causing stomach pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and burning and stinging pain in the anus, induce gastrointestinal diseases, and promote bleeding hemorrhoids.
Therefore, anyone suffering from esophagitis, gastroenteritis, gastric ulcer, hemorrhoids and other diseases should eat less or avoid chili peppers. Since the nature and flavor of chili peppers are pungent and hot, they should also be eaten with caution due to fiery-heat diseases such as eye burning, toothache, sore throat, hemoptysis, sores and boils, or hypertension and tuberculosis caused by yin deficiency and fire exuberance.