Hot peppers are red-colored vegetables that make dishes hearty and look appetizing and colorful. Hence, people may add or embellish their dishes with it to express their love for exciting chili flavors. Red peppers 🌶 gives food an extra kick 🦵 and makes bland dishes tasteful and palatable. Whether in powdered form or its real shape and form, it might be your favorite garnishing for dishes. You might even make a condiment with it whenever you eat, or finish the dish you’re cooking by adding red pepper to it.
However, as you keep on reading cookbooks, and Xciting chicken recipes, you might have seen articles or videos online about the bad effects of various foods. You might have encountered that red hot peppers could mean negative. For others 🌶 symbolizes or associates it with a monstrous devilish side effect. Because it could cause the anus and lower rectum problems like hemorrhoids. Hence when people learn about this adverse reaction, they may opt to omit it in their dishes, and instead look for an alternative that could still produce an exquisite spicy food that expresses lovely flavors and excites the senses. Ergo, people might consider using 🧂 White peppercorns, Papaya seeds, Capers, and Coriander seeds. They might also spice up the dishes with ground ginger, allspice, and ground mustard.
Learn the effect of red hot pepper on your health by reading the clinical trials below.
1. Hemorrhoidal symptoms
People can eat a spicy meal with red hot chili pepper, and symptomatic hemorrhoid patients can enjoy a spicy dish occasionally because there’s no strong scientific evidence that it can worsen hemorrhoidal symptoms. This conclusion was based on the result of a clinical trial that enrolled fifty patients with second-degree and third-degree symptomatic hemorrhoids. They were designated to ingest either a single dose of red hot chili powder capsule or a placebo during lunch. During the intervention program, treatments and foods that are potentially related to anorectal symptoms were discontinued. After one week, the capsules that the patient would take had been switched, to conduct a crossover treatment. The same methodology has been carried out to administer the treatment. Results showed that before and 48 hours after taking capsules, the patients indicated low scores for hemorrhoidal symptoms such as bleeding, swelling, pain, itching, and burning were unchanged. (1)
2. Hemmorhoidal postoperative symptoms
Consuming three grams of red chilis per day during postoperative period after hemorrhoidectomy can increase the intensity of postoperative symptoms, stool frequency, and analgesics consumption. This notion was obtained from the result of a clinical trial published in 2007 in the World Journal Of Surgery. 60 postoperative patients who underwent hemorrhoidectomy due to grade III or IV hemorrhoidal disease were the participants of the study. They were allocated to the control group who were assigned to have antibiotics, and analgesics, or the chili group which received antibiotics, analgesics, and three grams of chili powder every day. The postoperative symptoms such as pain, anal burning, pruritus, and bleeding during the period were self-assessed by the patients using questionnaires. Results yielded that during the first postoperative week, the incidence of post-hemorrhoidectomy symptoms was higher in the chili group. (2)
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Reference:
- (1) Altomare, D. F., Rinaldi, M., La Torre, F., Scardigno, D., Roveran, A., Canuti, S., Morea, G., & Spazzafumo, L. (2006). Red hot chili pepper and hemorrhoids: the explosion of a myth: results of a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial. Diseases of the colon and rectum, 49(7), 1018–1023. [Abstract] https://doi.org/10.1007/s10350-006-0532-3
- (2) Gupta P. J. (2007). Effect of red chili consumption on postoperative symptoms during the post-hemorrhoidectomy period: randomized, double-blind, controlled study. World journal of surgery, 31(9), 1822–1826 [Abstract]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-007-9148-6
✍ March 8, 2024
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