Organic Whole Chili - Premium Quality
BOTANICAL NAME
Capsicum annuum L. var. annuum
Plant Family: Solanaceae
OVERVIEW
37,500 H.U.
Chili is the Aztec name for Capsicum annuum. It has been used both as a food and a medicine by Native Americans for over 9000 years. The Capsicum family includes bell peppers, red peppers, paprika, and pimento, but the most famous medicinal members of the family are cayenne and chile. The tasty hot peppers have long been used in many of the world's cuisines, but their greatest use in health comes from, surprisingly, conventional medicine.
PARTS USED
The fruit, fresh or dried, chopped or powdered.
TYPICAL PREPARATIONS
Widely used in cooking. Most often compounded as a cream for external use, rarely brewed into a tea for internal use.
SUMMARY
The burning sensation of hot peppers is a reaction of the central nervous system to capsaicin; unlike horseradish, wasabi, garlic, ginger, and mustard, capsaicin only causes the sensation of damage, not real damage to tissues.
