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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
you'll find that a lot of people said the same thing about moonshine.

That’s because if you’re not an alcoholic, it tends to make you sleep.

Well, these folks must've been - a shot at the beginning of the day was common enough to be known as an "eye-opener". Not that frontier medicine was necessarily sophisticated, but they seemed to believe that it would kill whatever ails ya.

Just to add, chili peppers are very high in vitamin C, two to three times an orange, and packed with other antioxidants.

So, you are getting the aforementioned affects and a large dose of vitamin C and antioxidants.


ARman

Problem is spicy foods can also cause mucus production causing a drip to get worse.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
Here's why you feel better after eating hot spicy foods:

https://www.everydayhealth.com...ling%20of%20pleasure.

When capsaicin – the chemical in spicy foods that makes them so hot, Hot, HOT – hits your tongue, your body registers the sensation as pain. This in turn triggers the release of endorphins, otherwise known as “happy” chemicals that give you an instant head-to-toe feeling of pleasure.

This is consistent with my experience. After eating something really hot (and I have a very high hot tolerance), I definitely feel that little endorphin hit. If you were ailing, this would make you think you were getting better.

I have moderate allergies to grass and dust (basically am hosed all year long) and have long loved spicy foods as they open up the sinuses. It’s a nice pressure relief and seems to last for at least an hour or two. I imagine the same is true for when you’re sick.

As for people rubbing their eyes- a few years ago I was chopping some ghost peppers from the garden, somehow I hit a seed just right and it bounced up off the cutting board and lodged under my upper eyelid. Instant indescribable hell. I wear glasses when chopping pretty much anything now.

Doesn't work for me. I have a low tolerance for hot,spicy food.

I just recently gave a jar of Polish sausages to a friend, I ate one of them, pure agony for
me.

But if you tolerate and crave it..go ahead.