How to preserve fresh chili peppers

If you cannot finish fresh chili peppers in one meal, you need to preserve them well to prevent the ingredients from spoiling. You can put them in the refrigerator to keep them fresh. Be sure to keep them in a humid and cold place. This will make the chili peppers very easy to spoil and mold, making them inedible. You can also not eat too much to avoid the risk of getting a sore throat.

Chili peppers are rich in VC, carotene, protein, carbohydrates, minerals (calcium, phosphorus, iron, selenium, cobalt), pigments (cryptoxanthin, capsanthin, trace capsanthin), solanine, fatty oil, resin, volatile oil, spicy ingredients (capsaicin, dihydrocapsaicin, high capsaicin, etc.). Chili peppers are spicy and hot in nature.

It has the effects of warming the middle and strengthening the stomach, and killing insects. It is mainly used to treat stomach cold, loss of appetite, indigestion, rheumatic low back pain, mumps, multiple carbuncle and other symptoms. Capsaicin is also a potential anti-cancer substance and antioxidant. 3 chili peppers, 10 peppercorns, a slice of ginger and an appropriate amount of salt, decocted in water and drunk, can cure colds; 1 chili pepper, wrapped in hot tofu skin and swallowed in the early morning, can cure dysentery and watery diarrhea.

Chili peppers are spicy and hot food. Eating too much can cause internal inflammation. Therefore, people with yin deficiency and excessive inflammation should avoid eating chili peppers.

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Solanum capsicum is hot and dispersing in nature, and can also remove dampness. There was a little boy who drank cold water and slept in the shade in the summer. In the autumn, he suffered from malaria. No medicine worked. It lasted until early winter. He occasionally ate hot sauce, which was quite palatable. He ate it with every meal and also used it to make porridge. Soon, the malaria healed. This is because water accumulates in the chest and diaphragm, turning into cold phlegm, which can be dispersed by spicy medicine, just like pouring soup over snow ear.

2. Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica": It can eliminate food stagnation, relieve gas, stimulate appetite, ward off evil, and kill all kinds of fishy smells and poisons.

3. "Baicao Mirror": wash frostbite, bathe for cold scabies, and purge cold habits in the large intestine meridian.

4. "Medicinal Properties": warms the middle and dispels cold, eliminates wind and induces sweating, removes cold habits, and removes phlegm and dampness.

5. "Food Do's and Don'ts": warms the middle and lowers the Qi, dispels cold and dampness, relieves depression and eliminates phlegm, helps digestion, kills insects and detoxifies. Treat vomiting, treat indigestion, stop diarrhea, and eliminate athlete's foot.

"Drug Inspection": It can dispel wind and promote blood circulation, dispel cold and relieve depression, guide stagnation, stop diarrhea, and cure ringworms. [2]

Capsaicin tincture or capsaicin can be taken internally as a stomachic, which has the effect of promoting appetite and improving digestion. Animal experiments (Basov gastric paralysis dogs) have shown that chili water stimulates the oral mucosa and reflexively enhances gastric motility. 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. Chili pepper has inhibitory and antispasmodic effects on isolated animal intestines.

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