Chili peppers, one of the most popular garden vegetables, reveal amazing benefits! Small but powerful, even though they are more expensive, their benefits are not reduced at all. Here are some easy ways to grow them for consumption. You can grow them in a small space!
Small chili peppers are often used as a compliment to compare people who are small but have more abilities than they seem. Even though they are currently facing the problem of increasing their prices, they are still popular and are considered an easy-to-use vegetable. They add spiciness and flavor to your favorite dishes. You can add them whole (single peppers) or chop them. In addition, if we talk about their medicinal properties, they are equally high. Today, the news team has gathered the benefits and medicinal properties for our readers to get to know the small but powerful chili peppers. If you eat them, you will probably be startled.
Get to know chili peppers
The chili plant, scientific name Capsicum annuum L., is in the Solanum family and originated in tropical America. It is an herbaceous plant or small shrub with a height of about 30-90 centimeters and a lifespan of about 1-3 years. It grows well in clay loam and well-drained loam soil in partial shade or outdoors. And It does not tolerate standing water. In Thailand, it can be found in every region.
While the chili peppers are long and oval, with a pointed tip, growing in a wedge-shaped shape, only 2-3 cm long, the fresh fruit is green, when ripe it will turn orange-red or red mixed with brown. Inside the fruit is hollow and has a core with many yellow seeds.
Medicinal properties of chili peppers
- It has a spicy taste and has the properties of expelling gas, increasing appetite, nourishing the elements, expelling sweat, removing phlegm, making saliva clear, and relieving coughing. Traditional doctors use chili root, ground with lime juice, and sprinkled with salt, and gargle the child’s throat to relieve phlegm and thrush.
- Ripe fruits used in cooking can help reduce blood sugar levels because they contain capsaicin.
Research indicates that 5 grams of fresh chili peppers have the ability to reduce blood sugar levels and can stimulate insulin secretion. Clinical trials have found that 50% of people who regularly use capsaicin for 4-5 months in the form of an external cream will also reduce muscle pain.
- It helps accelerate combustion and metabolism, burns calories, and reduces weight, triglycerides and bad fat (LDL) levels.
- It helps reduce blood pressure because it softens blood vessels and helps the blood circulation system to function well. It has properties that help increase blood circulation, help break up blood clots, reduce blood vessel blockage, which is a major cause of heart failure or death from blocked blood vessels to the brain. Because substances such as beta-carotene and vitamin C help strengthen blood vessel walls, increase the flexibility of blood vessel walls, making them better adapt to different levels of pressure.
- Helps improve mood. Capsaicin, found in chili peppers, helps signal the pituitary gland to produce endorphins, which act similarly to morphine, i.e., help relieve pain.
Precautions for eating chili peppers
- People with gastritis or enteritis, stomach ulcers, tuberculosis or hemorrhoids should not eat chili peppers.
- If you accidentally eat chili peppers or your child eats very spicy chili peppers such as bird’s eye chili peppers, give them milk to drink because milk contains casein, which helps reduce the spiciness.
- Eating too much chili can cause stomach pain, acne, and if you touch or touch chili, it can cause your skin to burn.
- For those who can’t eat spicy food at all, please eat with caution.
Growing your own chili peppers
- Soak the chili seeds in water for 1 night.
- Sow in a nursery tray.
- When it is about 3-5 centimeters tall, it is strong and healthy.
- You can now move the chili plants into the prepared soil.
In this case, you should eat everything in moderation, focusing on adding flavor and spiciness to each meal, as this can cause irritation. It is recommended to eat a variety of foods from ยูฟ่าเบท all 5 food groups.