Both. White pepper warms the stomach and black pepper tonifies the kidney. Pepper is not only a common condiment, but also has certain medicinal properties, which can play a role in diet therapy. But there are black and white peppers, and different kinds are suitable for cooking different dishes.

Most of pepper grows in high temperature and long-term humid areas, and its taste is pungent and hot, so it has a strong effect of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold and relieving pain. The more southerly the pepper grows, the warmer it is, because it fully absorbs the yang and heat in the south. Therefore, Hainan pepper has the strongest warmth.

Extended information Pepper is suitable for people with stomach cold and nausea, vomiting clear water, cold pain in the heart, diarrhea and cold dysentery, loss of appetite, chronic gastritis, water stoppage in the stomach and people who feel cold or suffer from rain. Pepper can prevent food poisoning when eaten with fish, meat, soft-shelled turtle and mushrooms.

Patients with yin deficiency and fire, excessive internal heat, Sjogren's syndrome, diabetes, cough, vomiting blood, throat and mouth diseases and hemorrhoids should not eat; Patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers and hypertension should not eat pepper.

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