What are the benefits of eating chili peppers for men?

If male friends regularly eat chili peppers, they will naturally have many benefits for their bodies, but they should not eat too much to avoid the risk of getting angry. Appropriate consumption of some chili peppers can achieve the effect of dispelling wind and cold and digestion, and even has a health care effect on sexual function, so that male friends will not suffer from sexual dysfunction. After all, chili peppers are a kind of traditional Chinese medicine.

Functional indications

1. "Supplements to the Outline"

Spicy eggplant is hot and dispersing, and can also remove water and dampness. There was a child who ate cold water during the lunar month and lay down in the shade. Malaria broke out in autumn, but all medicines had no effect, and it lasted until early winter. He occasionally ate hot sauce, which was quite palatable. He needed it every time he ate it, and he also cooked it in porridge. After a while, the malaria recovered on its own. It is caused by the accumulation of water in the chest and diaphragm, which turns into cold phlegm. The pungent food is used to disperse it, so it is like soup with snow ears.

2. Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica"

Eliminates food, relieves qi knots, stimulates appetite, wards off evil spirits, and kills fishy qi and other poisons.

3. "Baicao Mirror"

Wash away chilblains, take cold baths for scabies, and purge cold tendons in the large intestine.

4. "Test of Medicinal Properties"

Warming and dispersing cold, eliminating wind and sweating, removing cold syndrome, removing phlegm and removing dampness.

5. "Food Do's and Don'ts"

It warms the middle and lowers Qi, dissipates cold and removes dampness, relieves depression and removes phlegm, digests food, kills insects and detoxifies. Cure vomiting, treat choking and diaphragm, stop diarrhea and dysentery, and remove athlete's foot.

6. "Drug Testing"

It can dispel wind and promote blood circulation, dispel cold and relieve depression, induce stagnation, stop diarrhea and rub ringworm. [2]

Pharmacological effects

①Effect on digestive system

Chili pepper tincture or capsaicin can be used as a stomachic agent when taken orally, which can promote appetite and improve digestion. Animal experiments (Barsov's gastric infertility dogs) have proven that pepper water stimulates the oral mucosa and reflexively strengthens gastric movement. Condiments made from various peppers can increase saliva secretion and amylase activity after oral administration. Large doses taken orally can cause gastritis, enteritis, diarrhea, vomiting, etc. It has been reported that pepper has inhibitory and antispasmodic effects on isolated animal intestines.

②Antibacterial and insecticidal effects

Capsaicin has a significant inhibitory effect on Bacillus cereus and Bacillus subtilis, but is ineffective against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. Its branches and leaves have no antibacterial effect and only slightly inhibit Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 10-20% cayenne pepper is effective in killing bed bugs.

③redness effect

When used externally as a lubricant, it has a soothing effect on the skin, causing reflex expansion of local blood vessels in the skin and promoting strong local blood circulation. Tinctures useful for chilblains ； However, some people believe that pepper only strongly stimulates sensory nerve endings and causes a sense of warmth, but has little effect on blood vessels. It does not cause foaming at high concentrations, so it cannot be regarded as a redness-promoting agent.