AMAZING HEALTH BENEFITS OF CAYENNE PEPPER

Cayenne Pepper

Spicy and hot, cayenne pepper is known as the prince of spices and can be added to many dishes to add a bit of heat and extra flavour. Cayenne pepper is also one of the very hot peppers, as anyone who has eaten it will know. It is rated on the Scoville heat measurement scale of 40,000 units, which is hotter than jalapeño peppers, and it is also the pepper that is used in the self-defence pepper sprays. Did you know, though, that cayenne pepper also has many therapeutic and health benefits and it contains many vitamins and minerals too? Here are just a few of the many amazing health benefits of cayenne pepper.

1. Aids the digestion

You would normally think of hot spicy foods causing indigestion, rather than relieving it, but cayenne pepper is well known for its ability to aid the digestive system. Eating cayenne pepper help increase the production of gastric juices and enzymes in the gut that help the body to metabolize faster. It can also be useful for relieving gas.

2. Cayenne pepper may help prevent cancer

The substance that creates the heat in cayenne pepper is called capsaicin, which is believed might be able to slow the growth of some types of cancerous tumours.

3. It helps the body detox

Another one of fabulous health benefits of cayenne pepper is that it increases the speed that the body rids itself of dangerous toxins, and it increases the rate of digestion and of the lymphatic system. Cayenne pepper also increases the metabolism and causes sweating, all of which, increases the speed at which toxins are expelled from the body.

4. Increases circulation

Next one of great health benefits of cayenne pepper is that it can help increase circulation. The heat in the body that the capsaicin in cayenne pepper creates causes an increase in the blood flow around the body This improves the supply of oxygen to vital organs and the brain, as well as increasing the supply of nutrients.

5. Cayenne pepper can help prevent heart disease

There has been evidence that taking cayenne pepper orally can help prevent heart attacks. And another one of fabulous health benefits of cayenne pepper is that it can help to stop blood clots forming, by dissolving fibrin in the blood, and it is has also been shown that cayenne pepper can reduce the levels of cholesterol in the body.

6. It can help you lose weight

Adding cayenne pepper to your food can also help you lose weight. In a study conducted at Purdue University found that the thermogenesis effect, that’s the heating of the body, both increased the rate that participants in the study burned calories and it suppressed their appetites. They also discovered that the heating effect of the cayenne pepper also meant that participants continued to burn extra calories up to four hours after eating the meal.

7. Relieves congestion

Another one of fabulous health benefits of cayenne pepper is that it can also be used to treat the symptoms of colds and the flu. Mixed for a hot drink, cayenne pepper stimulates sweating, which will help to bring down a fever, it acts as a decongestant, so it will help relieve mucus and catarrh, and it will also soothe a sore throat too.

8. Relieves pain.

The capsaicin in cayenne pepper can act as a pain reliever and has been proven to help reduce the pain for migraine suffers and similar chronic pain. In a study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers claimed that the topical application of capsaicin effectively reduced pain and could be very effective when used in conjunction with other painkilling drugs.

9. It can promote the growth of hair

Applied topically to the scalp, mixed with other ingredients in form of a mask, it is believed that cayenne pepper can promote the growth of hair. It is said that the mild irritation that the pepper causes, increases the flow of blood to the follicles and so increases the nutrients reaching the hair, which, in turn, makes hair grow faster. But we recommend you to be cautious and to make your own research on this subject.

10. It can treat psoriasis

It is has also been proven that capsaicin can be an effective treatment for the skin condition, psoriasis. Research that was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed that. When applied topically, capsaicin significantly reduced the symptoms of the skin disorder.
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