Hot peppers

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Category: about Herbs

Capsicum annuum

How can be used as natural remedy ?

What contains and is good for health ?

The hot pepper is less known as a medicinal plant. Besides his indisputable food value peppers fruit has significant medicinal value. For medicinal uses from the pepper fruit is prepared powder, tincture and even decoction.

How can be used as natural remedy ?

Used as a spice, hot pepper came to be valued, over time, and as a medicinal plant. If it is used with moderation it helps regulating digestion. Consumed in large quantities, hot pepper creates discomfort, but purgative effects are significant. It is said that gargling with hot pepper decoction helps to strengthen the tone and the vocal cords. Pepper tincture is remarkable because it can cure chronic alcoholism (by 10 to 30 drops of tincture made a bitter tea, which is taken instead of alcohol). Hot peppers can be useful in rheumatic pain in muscular disorders, helping the muscles to revive after an intense effort. Hot pepper  is also anti-inflammatory and antiseptic and is used in diseases of the lungs as an expectorant.

What contains and is good for health ?

Important active ingredients: Vitamin C in large quantities, enzymes, and vitamins A, B1, B2 and capsaicin (the “hot” compound).

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