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The Physiological Effects of Chili on the Body

Chilies range from zero which is your kind of bell peppers up to a few million which is California reapers and you gold you know ghost peppers or whatever probably best not to eat either. You can get chemical burns from eating these chilies right they can physically harm you but if you take the membrane of the chili and extract the capsaicin out of it and get pure capsaicin that has a scoville rating of 16 million which is a lot and eating that definitely will cause you problems. A friend of mine used to work on the pain system in the body and he said he went for a wee one day and it must have had someone his fingers he said it was the best

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