What is it about cooking it that destroys its good properties?
I have a good pastor friend in India who gargles with hot lemon and black pepper. I've never heard of anyone doing that before, and just wondered if you have any ideas on that.
What is it about cooking it that destroys its good properties?
I have a good pastor friend in India who gargles with hot lemon and black pepper. I've never heard of anyone doing that before, and just wondered if you have any ideas on that.
I dont know. But just keep in mind, in order to obtain the benefits, dont heat it up. Ill keep looking for any further research on this.
For years people had mixed views on taking this condiment/medicine!!
Finally found out!!
eaten raw it is very helpful to the body
cooked it is not good for the body
I have a couple of questions about this.
The hotness of peppers is measured by something called the "Scoville scale", and cayenne pepper is in the middle of the scale.
Given this, does eating it raw, or cooked, do anything to reduce the hotness? Is raw cayenne pepper better for you that other peppers of a similar hotness?
Also, what do we do with the quote below, about how pepper is irritating to the stomach?
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In this fast age, the less exciting the food, the better. Condiments are injurious in their nature. Mustard, pepper, spices, pickles, and other things of a like character, irritate the stomach and make the blood feverish and impure. The inflamed condition of the drunkard's stomach is often pictured as illustrating the effect of alcoholic liquors. A similarly inflamed condition is produced by the use of irritating condiments. Soon ordinary food does not satisfy the appetite. The system feels a want, a craving, for something more stimulating. {MH 325.2}
For years people had mixed views on taking this condiment/medicine!!
Finally found out!!
eaten raw it is very helpful to the body
cooked it is not good for the body
I have a couple of questions about this.
The hotness of peppers is measured by something called the "Scoville scale", and cayenne pepper is in the middle of the scale.
Given this, does eating it raw, or cooked, do anything to reduce the hotness? Is raw cayenne pepper better for you that other peppers of a similar hotness?
Also, what do we do with the quote below, about how pepper is irritating to the stomach?
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In this fast age, the less exciting the food, the better. Condiments are injurious in their nature. Mustard, pepper, spices, pickles, and other things of a like character, irritate the stomach and make the blood feverish and impure. The inflamed condition of the drunkard's stomach is often pictured as illustrating the effect of alcoholic liquors. A similarly inflamed condition is produced by the use of irritating condiments. Soon ordinary food does not satisfy the appetite. The system feels a want, a craving, for something more stimulating. {MH 325.2}
Don't have all the answers yet, but I will keep looking for these answers.
EGW I believe was referring to the black and white peppers that are so irritating to the linings of our digestive tract. Of course, one could overdo it with the cayenne too.
refulgent, It is my understanding that many things that are normally harmful to us, and to be avoided, can be used to good effect as a medicine.
nb, Do you mean that black and white pepper are worse than chili peppers? This is a serious question, as many of us health reformers in Asia (not much in Japan tho), have a really hard time telling the people that these things irritate the stomach and should never be introduced into it. I've been laughed at by fellow SDAs in Korea, India, and maybe Malaysia and Thailand too regarding this, and was even called basically "racist" for not understanding their native customs. I still remember with a smile how Bill Dull in India told me this is the hardest reform he has to deal with there, as the cooks at his centers (all SDAs) are told not to use chili peppers or masala, yet when he eats there, it always stings his palate. When he confronts them about it, they tell him something like: "We didn't put any in. It's just for taste" - ha! He did say his cooks now are doing better about this.
