Chili is a very important food condiment, people living in Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other areas are basically “no spicy food”! In the hot Jinan, more and more people are falling in love with this “spicy” taste! The feeling of sweating after drinking spicy soup and eating hot sauce has greatly satisfied people’s tastebuds. Why does my butt hurt after eating chili? Many people have this experience, yesterday ate chili peppers, today to go to the toilet is a good pain in the buttocks, like on fire, this is why? Chili pepper contains a spicy component “capsaicin”, which is not digested and absorbed by the body, but directly out of the body. Therefore, the anus will be stimulated by capsaicin as well as the mouth and digestive tract, and feel the hot and spicy sensation. In addition, capsaicin has the effect of promoting sweating and raising body temperature, which can easily irritate mucous membranes and trigger hemorrhoids or worsen their symptoms. For a particular individual, too much capsaicin can strongly stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, making it congested and peristaltic, causing stomach pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and some digestive enzymes in the diluted stool and the capsaicin that cannot be broken down and destroyed in time can cause the anal opening to feel a burning or stinging sensation! Too many bowel movements may damage the epithelium of the anus or hemorrhoid nucleus, which can manifest itself as bleeding during bowel movements. It was the chili peppers that caused me to get hemorrhoids? In fact, in the cause of hemorrhoids, chili may really suffer some injustice, and this correlation may need to be evaluated more rationally! The effect of chili peppers on hemorrhoids is the same as any other cause of increased bowel movements (such as acute and chronic enteritis, etc.), not the underlying cause of hemorrhoids, although of course the vasodilating effect caused by capsaicin may play a role in causing hemorrhoids and exacerbating hemorrhoid symptoms, but there is no definite one-to-one definitive relationship. Chili peppers just tend to induce hemorrhoids. Reasonable but not excessive consumption of stimulating spices such as chili peppers is important for the prevention of hemorrhoids. In fact, there is no evidence in epidemiological studies of hemorrhoids that eating chili peppers is necessarily associated with a higher incidence than non-pepper eaters. It is best to eat in moderation! Chili pepper is a typical dual-use plant, traditional Chinese medicine believes that: chili pepper has meridians, blood circulation, blood stasis, dispel wind and cold, appetite and stomach, liver and eyes, warming the lower gas, anti-bacteria and anti-insects and other effects, so also known as the “red herbs”. Modern research shows that the main pungent ingredient in chili peppers is capsaicin, which can specifically act on capsaicin receptors on nerve fibers sensitive to capsaicin in the human body, causing the release of a variety of bioactive substances, resulting in a variety of pharmacological activities: such as pain relief, weight loss, lipid-lowering, vasodilatation and other effects. Recent studies have found that capsaicin also has good anti-fatigue effects, and its mechanism of action may be related to anti-oxidant free radicals, regulation of sugar and lactate metabolism and central nervous mediators. Therefore, in daily life, it is beneficial to consume chili peppers in moderation according to individual conditions.