Bitter pepper

To look at a low bush with green leaves and red fruits especially pleasantly during a winter time when outside the window so there are not enough paints. But it is necessary to observe precaution – by no means, having touched peppers, not to touch the person, especially eyes.

Pepper is considered the recognized champion on vitamin C content. For release of vitamin C from pepper fruits the Hungarian scientist Albert Saint-Dyerdi got the Nobel Prize in 1937.

Pepper fruits, except vitamin C contain also vitamins: And, B1, B2, B3, B6, E, PP; minerals: magnesium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sulfur, chlorine, sodium, aluminum, iodine, iron, zinc, phosphorus and also sugar, oil, kapsaitsin.

Pepper was cultivated by the natives living in the territory of modern Bolivia, more than 6000 thousand years ago. Locals called this akh pepper. It grows in the homeland in the form of a bush.

To Europe pepper was delivered together with other spices by Christopher Columbus's ships in 1493. It got to Russia at the beginning of the 17th century and was initially used as medicine.

On plantations in a huge number bitter siliculose pepper is grown up in the Western Africa, in Brazil, Colombia, by Mexico, California, Vietnam, Indonesia, India. Most of all pepper in the world is eaten by residents of Thailand. In Russia in house conditions fans grow up it in flowerpots. It is known that pepper was very much loved by George Washington, he not only ate a lot of pepper, but also itself grew up it on plantations.

Many people since the childhood got used to sharp kitchen, and do not notice causticity of pepper. But we are suited a little in a different way therefore experts advise if they ate too high dose of food with bitter pepper and the throat burns, and tears came into eyes, it is necessary to drink a half-glass of milk at once, beer, a glass of orange juice go to eat a piece of black bread.

The people of the countries where pepper grows, from antiquity use its medicinal properties.

- Hot pepper copes with microbes, helps to lose excess weight and not to take him again, slows down process of aging of an organism.

- For example, in Mexico instead of nitroglycerine use red pepper. 1 teaspoon of the ground pepper is filled in with 1 glass of hot water.

- Interestingly and the fact that Mexicans have tea from pepper during a strong heat, and Eskimos during cold … And still Mexicans claim that pepper clarifies reason.

- Residents of India consider that, exactly thanks to red pepper the poor people in their country living in hovels or even under the open sky keep good health.

- Burning pepper prevents development of oncology.

- Doctors recommend it to the elderly people having atherosclerosis.

- Besides burning pepper facilitates a condition of patients at bronchial asthma, an allergy, improves digestion, blood circulation, saves from benign tumors, increases secretion of a stomach.

- At bad blood circulation in legs traditional medicine recommends a pepper bathtub. To dissolve 1 tablespoon of chili powder in a basin with hot water and to hold legs until water cools down. Then to wipe and put on woolen socks in the winter, in the summer cotton.

Pepper cannot be used suffering from gastritis, stomach ulcer and a 12-perstny gut, at ulcer colitis.

Except that pepper is used as spice and medicine, it also helps to keep beauty.

- A mask for the withering skin
To crush in powder a pepper piece of the size of a nail on a little finger, to add 2 tablespoons of olive oil, to stir. To kindle a piece of honeycombs together with wax and honey of the size of 1 teaspoon, to mix with pertsovo - oil mix, to put on the face greased with fat cream for 5-7 minutes. To wash away warm water.

- Tincture of red pepper for strengthening and growth of hair
¼ pods of red pepper to crush and fill in ¼ glasses of vodka. To insist 7 days. To filter. To take 1 dessertspoon of tincture and a rassvesta its 10 dessertspoons of boiled water. To rub in the head for 4-5 hours. If burning is felt, to wash away at once If hair drop out, the procedure it is necessary to carry out 2-3 times a week.

- For splendor of hair
to mix ½ teaspoons of the crushed red pepper about ¼ glasses of honey. To rub in a hairy part of the head, to put on a polyethylene hat and to wind from above with a towel. To wash away in 20 minutes. If burning is felt, then to wash away at once.