Excessive Chili Consumption Can Be Harmful

　　Chili pepper Although rich in nutrition and having important medicinal value, eating too much can harm human health.

Because excessive capsaicin strongly irritates the gastric mucosa, causing it to become highly congested,and increases peristalsis, leading to stomach pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and anal burning pain. It may also trigger gastrointestinal diseases and cause hemorrhoids bleeding. Therefore, those with esophagitis, gastroenteritis, gastric ulcers, and hemorrhoids should eat less or avoid chili pepper. Since the nature of chili is greatly pungent and hot,

people with toothache, sore throat, hemoptysis, carbuncles, or yin deficiency with internal heat, such as hypertension and tuberculosis, should also be cautious about eating it.

Additionally, from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, slender people often have yin deficiency and hot constitutional tendencies.