Cancer Prevention and Digestion: 8 Spicy Foods for Better Health

Many spicy foods are indispensable seasonings in our lives, and most delicacies cannot do without them. Moreover, spicy foods have many benefits for the human body. Let's take a look at which spicy foods are good for our health.

1. Garlic

Garlic is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It contains nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, B vitamins, and vitamin C, as well as sulfur and selenium organic compounds (allicin) and various active enzymes. In addition, its content of calcium, phosphorus, iron and other elements is also very rich. It has the effects of killing insects, detoxifying, eliminating stagnation, promoting qi, and warming the stomach. It has a certain therapeutic effect on food stagnation, dysentery, whooping cough, edema and distension pain, and insect and snake bites. In addition, eating garlic can also prevent influenza, treat fungal infections, and has the effects of lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, and having a strong anti-cancer effect.

2. Ginger

Ginger is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It contains oily volatiles such as gingerol, as well as gingerol, vitamins, gingerol, resin, starch, fiber and a small amount of minerals. It can enhance blood circulation, stimulate gastric juice secretion, excite the intestines, promote digestion, strengthen the stomach and increase appetite.

Chinese Herbal Ginger Duck

3. Chili

The vitamin C content in chili is very high, ranking among the highest in vegetables. It has the effects of warming the middle jiao to dispel cold, whetting the appetite to promote digestion, and promoting sweating to remove dampness. It also has a certain bactericidal effect and has a good effect on preventing colds, arteriosclerosis, night blindness, and scurvy. Chili also has the effect of preventing cancer and delaying aging. In particular, red chili is praised as "red medicine" by the people.

4. Onion

Onion is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It has the effects of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, detoxifying and killing insects, whetting the appetite to transform dampness, lowering lipids and sugar, calming the liver and moistening the intestines, promoting urination, sweating, and preventing colds. It can prevent and treat arteriosclerosis and also has the effect of preventing cancer. Because it integrates nutrition, health care and medical functions, onion is known as the "queen of vegetables" in some European and American countries.

5. Pepper

Pepper is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It contains nutrients such as volatile oil, piperine, crude fat, crude protein, and starch. It has black and white varieties and can treat indigestion, enteritis, bronchitis, colds and rheumatism. Modern pharmacological research has also found that piperine, piperidine, and volatile oil in pepper have the effects of expelling wind and strengthening the stomach.

Black Pepper Steak

6. Sichuan Pepper

Sichuan pepper is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It contains components such as limonene, sanshool, unsaturated organic acids, and volatile oil. It has the effects of warming the middle jiao to strengthen the stomach, dispelling cold and removing dampness, detoxifying and killing insects, and regulating qi to relieve pain. It has a certain effect on treating indigestion, hiccups, belching and vomiting, joint and muscle pain caused by wind-cold-dampness evil, dysentery, and ascaris. Modern pharmacological research has also found that it has a certain local anesthetic and analgesic effect, and also has a significant inhibitory effect on various bacilli and cocci.

7. Chives

Chives contain very high vitamins and carotene, which help improve vision and relieve eye fatigue, making them very suitable for people who use computers for a long time. In addition, high carotene helps enhance immunity, prevent tumors, and is also very beneficial for anti-oxidation and anti-aging.

8. Scallion

Scallions also have anti-cancer effects. The pectin contained in scallions can significantly reduce the incidence of colon cancer and has anti-cancer effects. The allicin in scallions can also inhibit the growth of cancer cells.

Bacon and Scallion Bagels