Why is eating spicy food related to humid climate?

For example, in areas that love spicy food, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Jiangxi are particularly "serious". This spicy area is mainly related to the local climate. People in Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou love spicy food, because these areas are mostly mountainous areas with humid environment and little sunshine. They eat spicy food to get rid of dampness and cold.

In humid areas, spicy food can stimulate people's pores to relax and speed up blood circulation. Blood brings heat generated by internal organs, which can help people drive away the cold. When it's cold, sometimes eating a little pepper is more effective than heating.

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Benefits of spicy taste:

1, promote appetite: Capsaicin is contained in pepper, which can effectively improve loss of appetite and eliminate gas accumulated in digestive tract, thus playing a role in treating halitosis.

2. Promote blood circulation: Many people don't know that spicy food also has good medicinal value. Chinese medicine believes that a moderate amount of spicy food helps the human body to play the role of "expelling wind and sweating, resolving phlegm and removing dampness". Modern medical research also believes that eating spicy food such as pepper can promote blood circulation, thus improving discomfort symptoms such as fear of cold, frostbite and vascular headache.

3, against colds: capsaicin, the active substance of peppers in spicy ingredients, has the effect of diluting nasal mucus, which in turn helps to get through the nasal congestion caused by colds, making breathing smoother and conducive to the recovery of colds.

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