There is no word to describe the power of Chilli other than HOT in
English. I feel that it can’t be explained by a much better word. The Chilli is
always a cardinal item of prominence in our daily dishes. It has been proven
that it contains few medicinal benefits. Vitamin content is superfluous in it
with Vitamin-C specifically in abundance. Scientific results also say that a
single Chilli weapon posses four times the amount of vitamin-c present in
orange and as much in any other fruit for that matter.
An inconvenient truth behind this dangerous item is that it acts as a
cathartic agent. It almost has the effect of a tepid poison. Our human body doesn’t readily accept the
invasion of Chilli into the food tract and rebels by. Hence our normal defense
cleanses it in the form of liquid feces. We often experience this situation
when we consume a surplus amount of Chilli than the normal. When taken in small
doses it won’t affect us especially Indians much as we’re used to it. Unless
the effects produced by this Chilli are observed intuitively we just ignore it
as a false alarm of our body.
It is a fact that every foreigner whoever tastes the subcontinent food,
suffers manifold times than an Indian would. In a way it acts as the remedy for
those people dealing with constipation problem.
I was confounded whether to laugh or not when I happened to listen to a
conversation of a foreign guest who was trying pacify his child dealing with
the same problem. He said, “See my child; I never had the problem of
constipation when I was in India. Don’t worry; someday I’ll definitely take you
with me there to tackle your problem. ” Oh my, isn’t it ridiculous to hear such
words.
After going through some facts and reports about the Chilli, I become
curious to experiment it on my own. Then I decided to take it in more in my
food than usual. The purgative effect immediately materialized even before the
end of the day. It was then I understood my body's mechanism to readily reject
Chilli like any other unsolicited junks.
Tracing back its origin, it actually doesn’t belong to our
sub-continent though it occupies a defiant position in our kitchen groceries.
It was traded from Persia and Arabic by archaic time’s traders. So how did we
survive without this major taste making grocery in cooking in those Pre-Chilli
days? The answer to this is black gold - Pepper. This was supposed to be the
best source of alternative to Chilli while adding rich hotness in our food along
with surplus medicinal benefits. Even the English people had known the benefits
of pepper once they got a taste of it. Hence they traded it efficiently along
with other rare spice commodities and flourished.
So muse over this and try to nullify from your diet. Eat right and live
well.
