Useful and medicinal properties of peppers
( red)
Annual herbaceous plant up to 60 cm tall. Root stem, branching. Stem erect, smooth, angular, branching at the top. Leaves are regular, long-petioled, simple, ovoid with pointed apex, whole, entire. The flowers are white, rather large, drooping, solitary or 2-3 in the axils of the leaves. Fruit is a multi-seeded berry, red or brown-red, globular or oblong, conic( pod).Blossoms in July-August. Fruits ripen in August-September.
Peppers are grown on fields and vegetable gardens.
With the therapeutic purpose, its fruits( pods) are used. The collection is carried out as it ripens. The fruit is dried in attics or in the sun.
Handle chilli peppers carefully, since the resulting dust has a strong local irritant effect on the skin and mucous membranes, especially the eyes and nose. Dust can cause severe lachrymation, sneezing, swelling of the face.
Pepper contains a lot of vitamins A and C. The main component of it, on which the local irritant effect depends, is alkaloid-like amide capsaicin. In addition, the pepper contains pigmented substances, wax, fatty oil, essential oil. When applying capsaicin on the skin there is a strong reddening, accompanied by burning pain and sometimes the appearance of blisters. When ingested in a significant amount of capsaicin causes an acute gastrointestinal disorder, which in severe cases can lead to death.
Pepper is used mainly as a tincture, it stimulates appetite in small doses;for external use - as a local irritating and distracting remedy for rheumatism, colds, arthritis, myositis, etc. It is part of the ready-made medicines "Cap-syn", "Kapsitrin", produced in the original package of 50-100 g. It is also used as a seasoningto the dishes.
Application of
Vodka tincture: 25 g per 200 ml;10 drops inside for appetite;externally - as a distracting stimulus.
"Kapsitrin" - externally( rubbing) with neuralgia, myalgia and arthralgia.
Tincture: 10 g per 10 ml 40 ° vodka( alcohol) for rubbing the sick places with lumbosacral radiculitis, and also as pepper plaster.