The efficacy of pepper

People who like Western food or barbecue know that pepper is an important ingredient. But what we see is not the original form of pepper, but pepper ground into powder. On the one hand, pepper powder is easy to store, and on the other hand, pepper powder has less odor. The pepper itself is in the shape of small round grains, densely growing on a small vine, making it very easy to pick. What are the effects of pepper?

Pepper., also known as: Meiluzhi, Pilei, Poware, etc., Latin name: Piper nigrum L belongs to the Piperales, Piperaceae, Piper genus, woody climbing vine; stems and branches are hairless, nodes are significantly swollen, and small roots are often produced. Flowers are polygamous, usually monoecious; berries are spherical, sessile, and bloom from June to October.

It grows in tropical regions with an annual rainfall of 2,500 mm, and requires a period of dry and hot interval in the middle of the growing season. Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Brazil are the main exporters of pepper. Its seeds contain volatile oil, piperine, crude fat, crude protein, etc.

Edible value

How to eat

Pepper Ginger Water

Ingredients: 3 fen pepper (ground), 1 liang ginger (slightly simmered and cut).

Preparation and usage: Use 2 large cups of water, boil 1 cup, remove the residue, and divide into 3 portions to take warm.

Efficacy: Treats nausea, vomiting and vomiting that lasts for several days.

The main component of pepper is piperine, which also contains a certain amount of aromatic oil, crude protein, crude fat and soluble nitrogen. It can remove fishy smell, relieve greasiness and aid digestion. The smell of pepper can increase appetite.

Pepper is warm in nature, and can effectively relieve stomach and abdominal cold pain, intestinal rumbling and diarrhea caused by stomach cold, and can treat colds; pepper has antiseptic and antibacterial effects, and can detoxify fish and shrimp botulism; black pepper is more spicy than white pepper, and it is fragrant and spicy, and can remove fishy smell and enhance flavor. It is more used in cooking offal and seafood dishes; white pepper has greater medicinal value, and can dispel cold, strengthen the stomach, etc., and can increase appetite, aid digestion, and promote sweating; it can also improve abnormal leucorrhea and epilepsy in women.

Medicinal value

Indications: Warming the middle, relieving qi, eliminating phlegm, and detoxifying. It is used to treat cold phlegm and food accumulation, cold pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting of clear water, diarrhea, and cold dysentery. And detoxify food.

① "Tang Materia Medica": It is used to reduce qi, warm the middle, remove phlegm, and eliminate wind-cold in the internal organs.

② "Haiyao Bencao": It can relieve stomach qi deficiency and coldness, indigestion, cholera, qi reversal, sudden pain in the heart and abdomen, cold air rushing up, and harmonize the qi.

③ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): Regulates the five internal organs, stops cholera, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, strengthens the kidney qi, treats cold dysentery, and kills all poisons in fish, meat, turtle, and grass.

④ "Bencao Mengquan": It can treat postpartum blood and qi pain, and swelling and pain caused by falls and blood stasis.

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Warms the intestines and stomach, eliminates cold and dampness, nausea, bloating, cold accumulation, yin poison, and toothache.