What are the benefits of drinking pepper water?

Everyone is familiar with Sichuan peppercorns. You can definitely find them by walking around the kitchen. However, nowadays, considering the convenience of eating, Sichuan peppercorns are often turned into Sichuan pepper powder. The taste is the same. However, peppercorns have advantages that pepper powder cannot match. For example, when you have a toothache, you can hold a peppercorn in your mouth, which has a very good pain-relieving effect. So, what are the benefits of drinking pepper water?

The benefits of drinking pepper soaked in water

Sichuan peppercorns soaked in water is made by combining Sichuan peppercorns and water and then drinking it. In fact, Sichuan peppercorns and water have something in common. If the Sichuan peppercorns are extracted into water, it has another effect. So, many people have not tried drinking Sichuan peppercorns soaked in water. Today, follow the editor to learn about the effects of drinking Sichuan peppercorns soaked in water.

(I) Inhibit smooth muscle movement and resist gastric ulcer and relieve asthma

Zanthoxylum bungeanum and its volatile oil and geraniol all have obvious inhibitory effects on gastrointestinal motility and have antispasmodic and analgesic effects on gastrointestinal smooth muscle spasms. Sichuan pepper oil has a strong antispasmodic effect on tracheal smooth muscle, stronger than aminophylline, and thus has an anti-asthmatic effect. The antiasthmatic effect of Zanthoxylum bungeanum oil is also related to the inhibition of the release of SRS-A, an allergic mediator produced by pulmonary mast cells. Zanthoxylum bungeanum and its volatile oil have a strong antispasmodic effect on uterine smooth muscle spasms. Its aqueous extract has an anti-ulcer effect on the gastric ulcer model.

(II) Enhance immunity and anti-inflammatory and analgesic

1. Enhance immunity: It can enhance the bactericidal ability of neutrophils, enhance the phagocytic function of macrophages, and increase the formation rate of E-roset.

2. Anti-inflammatory: Its water extract can inhibit ear swelling, plantar swelling and increased capillary permeability when administered to mice.

3. Analgesia: Its water extract can inhibit the writhing reaction and prolong the response to thermal pain stimulation when administered to mice. Its ether extract is stronger than its water extract. The spicy ingredients in Sichuan pepper have a strong and lasting analgesic effect.

(III) Other functions

1. Lowering blood pressure: Intravenous injection of geraniol has a significant lowering effect.

2. Anti-liver damage: Its water extract can protect the liver, significantly reduce liver degeneration and necrosis caused by CCl4, and reduce AlT. The water extract of Zanthoxylum bungeanum has no choleretic effect.