Eating chili pepper headache may have the following aspects: first, the direct stimulation of chili pepper, chili pepper smell spicy, eat chili pepper can stimulate the human central nervous system to appear sympathetic nerve function excitement and lead to vasodilation, vasodilation can lead to increased cerebral blood flow, increased intracranial pressure will appear headache. Second, mental anxiety, anxious patients are particularly sensitive to spicy stimuli, eat chili pepper in addition to headache can also be accompanied by restlessness, irritability, always feel that there are adverse events occurring and other symptoms. Third, hypertension is mostly seen in elderly patients, patients with blood pressure longer than normal and poorly controlled, higher than 140/90mmHg, patients may usually have good blood pressure control, will not appear headache symptoms, due to taking chili peppers can lead to sympathetic excitation, which can lead to a transient significant increase in blood pressure symptoms of headache.