Zanthoxylum bungeanum has a long history as a traditional Chinese medicine, and its medicinal value is recorded in the earliest classic of traditional Chinese medicine "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing", and it is considered very good? Warming the middle warmer to relieve pain, dispelling cold and relieving arthralgia, killing insects and relieving itching? The role of. Chinese medicine has studied pepper since ancient times. In modern times, by summing up the experience of the ancients, it is believed that Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the following three wonderful uses as medicine:

1, Zanthoxylum bungeanum can dispel cold evil and relieve pain.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is pungent, warm and dry, which can dispel the evil of cold and dampness, has a hemp taste and can play a role in relieving pain. Therefore, Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving pain.

The ancients once said that pepper is the best way to stop loss? Abdominal cold pain? It is because Zanthoxylum bungeanum is good at the two meridians of spleen and stomach, which can dispel the cold evil in the abdomen and spleen and has a good effect on the cold pain caused by cold coagulation in the body. For example, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, dried ginger and ginseng are used in traditional Chinese medicine, which have the functions of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, stopping vomiting and relieving pain.

In addition, pepper can also relieve common toothache. In fact, some people in life know that it is also very effective to contain pepper in your mouth to relieve pain when you have a toothache, or to gargle with vinegar-cooked pepper.

2. Pepper can kill worms in the abdomen.

Intestinal parasites are particularly sensitive to the pungent taste of pepper, which has a numbness and a certain paralyzing effect on intestinal parasites.

For example, the common ascaris lumbricoides in the intestine is best relieved by the above-mentioned Wu Mei pills. For bloodsucking worms, pinworms and other parasites, Zanthoxylum bungeanum can be cooked with Sophora flavescens and Stemona root to replace tea, which can play the role of expelling insects, killing insects and clearing intestines.

3, pepper can stop skin itching.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is pungent and warm in taste, and can also play a role in eliminating dampness and rash, and can also play a good role in relieving common rashes, redness, pain and itching caused by dampness.

For example, some cases of itching caused by damp-heat accumulation in the skin can be relieved by washing the affected area with Chili boiling water. Of course, it can also be combined with Fructus Cnidii, Herba Taraxaci, Evodia rutaecarpa and Folium Artemisiae Argyi, and the effect of removing dampness and relieving itching is more obvious when decocted and washed externally.

In some folk places, some people directly soak their hands and feet in boiling water with pepper, which can prevent and improve the common skin chapped and chilblain on their hands and feet.