Sichuan peppercorns are a condiment that we are very familiar with. We all know that when frying vegetables, add a little peppercorns and fry them in oil, and the fried dishes will be fragrant. Especially in Sichuan cuisine, the presence of Sichuan peppercorns is indispensable. The spicy flavor with Sichuan peppercorns is incomparable with the spicy flavor without Sichuan peppercorns.

After eating Sichuan peppercorns for so many years, do you know what benefits Sichuan peppercorns have on the human body? Now some people are also aware of the health benefits of Sichuan peppercorns. They often soak Sichuan peppercorns in water and drink them to maintain health. Let’s take a look. Take a look, what are the health benefits of pepper water?

Benefits 1. Enhance appetite

This should be a benefit that everyone can generally feel, because the unique aroma of peppercorns makes The dishes that come out are fragrant and have a numbing texture, which can open up people's appetite and eat more food. In addition, the aroma of peppercorns can also remove the smell of fish. If you add a few peppercorns when cooking mutton and fish, It can remove these odors very well and make the meat more delicious. Therefore, drinking some pepper water at ordinary times can also protect the stomach and improve digestion.

Benefit 2: Remove cold air and relieve dysmenorrhea

Panthoxylum bungeanum is a condiment and a hot food, so people with cold constitutions can often drink peppercorn water. To remove the cold in the body, and women with heavy cold in the body usually have dysmenorrhea, so when you use pepper water to remove the cold in the body, the body is no longer cold and warms up, the cold in the palace will disappear, and dysmenorrhea will occur. There will be some relief. In addition, people with cold body can not only drink pepper water, but also use pepper boiled water to soak their feet, which can also warm the body and dispel the cold.

Panthoxylum bungeanum not only stimulates taste buds to increase eating, but also warms the body, removes coldness and moisture, and protects our stomach and spleen. So, what is the role of drinking Sichuan peppercorns soaked in water?

First of all, Sichuan peppercorns are commonly used condiments, but have you ever thought about adding a handful of Sichuan peppercorns when cooking, which can not only warm the yang and dispel the cold, but also Sterilize and prevent diseases, enhance immunity, and get twice the result with half the effort.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that soaking Zanthoxylum bungeanum in water has the effects of being warm in nature, dispersing cold, dehumidifying, analgesic, and killing insects. Moderate consumption in spring can help the growth of human Yang Qi. At the same time, various bacterial viruses begin to reproduce in spring, which is a season prone to epidemics. The volatile oil in Zanthoxylum bungeanum can increase the phagocytic activity of macrophages in the body, thereby enhancing the body's immunity. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is also effective against diphtheria bacilli, pneumococci, Staphylococcus aureus and certain skin fungi have inhibitory effects.

Through the above introduction, I believe you have a certain understanding of the functions of drinking Sichuan peppercorns soaked in water. In addition, you can use Sichuan peppercorns to stir-fry the pot when cooking, or you can use Sichuan peppercorns noodles instead to make various meats. When making soup with meat and fish, it is a good choice to add a dozen peppercorns, because the peppercorns can effectively eliminate the odor of meat, such as the mutton smell and the fishy smell of fish.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum has sterilizing, disinfecting, analgesic, anti-itching, swelling and other effects. It has a good inhibitory effect on a variety of bacteria, especially bacteria on the skin surface. Most of them are used after boiling water.