If spicy is not a taste, but pain: Does it do actual damage?

Question

Spicy is perceived by the same receptors as the feelings hot and/or pain. But is this just some “trickery” of the receptors or does spicy food do actual damage? And if it doesn’t do actual damage: Why do people sometimes still throw up because of it (if it was too much)?

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Answer 1

We dont have taste receptors for it but dont make the same easy mistake thinking there are no sensory receptors for spicy. In other words, the sense here isn’t taste but pain.