Alias white pepper, floating pepper, jade pepper.

Morphological features evergreen vine. Stem up to 5 meters long, multi-nodal, slightly expanded at the nodes, young branches slightly fleshy. Leaves alternate, petiole 1.5-3 cm long, shallow groove above; leaves leathery, broadly ovate or ovate-long elliptic, apex pointed, base nearly rounded, entire, dark green above, pale green below, basal veins five to seven, raised below. Flowers unisexual, dioecious, or polygamous, in spikes, lateral on stem nodes; common pedicel as long as petiole, flower spikes ca. 10 cm; each flower has a peltate or cupular bract, immersed in the rachis, usually with lateral bracteoles; berry globose, densely arranged, fruiting spikes terete, green when young, reddish-yellow when ripe. Seeds small. Fl. April-Oct. Fruiting from October to April. The fruits of pepper are used medicinally.

Growing environment of China's southern and southwestern regions are cultivated. Growing in the shade of the woods.

Effective flavor pungent, hot. It warms the middle, lowers qi, eliminates phlegm and detoxifies.

Selected First Formula: 20 white peppercorns, 2 eggshells.

Use: *** baked yellow, finely ground, divided into 14 parts, 1 part per day, boiled water.

Treatment: lack of calcium convulsions. The second formula: 7 white pepper, fresh pear 1, 30 grams of honey.

Use: the pear (with skin) core, sliced, pepper broken, and honey with steamed food.

Treatment: lung cold chronic cough. Third party: 7 large red dates, 49 peppercorns.

Usage: remove the core of the red jujube, each date into the pepper 7 grains, tied with a line, steamed on the rice pot, **** pounded into pills, mung bean size, drying. Each serving seven to ten pills, warm boiled water. After serving, such as burning hunger in the stomach, eat some porridge, rice that is safe.

Treatment: cold stomach pain. Fourth formula: pepper 3 grams, mung beans 3 grams.

Use: *** research, warm water to serve, 2 grams each time. Every 3 to 4 hours to take again, after the disappearance of symptoms that is to stop.

Treatment: vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain due to stomach cold. Fifth formula: white pepper appropriate amount.

Usage: first use pepper decoction water to wash the wound, then sprinkle with pepper, covered with a dressing, change the medicine once a day.

Treatment: frostbite ulcerated flesh rot. Sixth formula: pepper 10 grains.

Use: grind, add two liters of water, boil, wash the affected area by warmth, 2 times a day.

Treatment: scrotal eczema. Seventh formula: 1 gram of white pepper, glucose powder 9 grams.

Usage: pepper finely ground, and glucose and well. 1 year old 0.3 ~ 0.5 grams each time, 1 ~ 3 years old 0.5 ~ 1.5 grams each time, 3 times a day, and even served 1 ~ 3 days. At the same time available pepper powder appropriate amount, fill the umbilical cord hole, external warm umbilical cord paste (into the medicine), a day to change 1 time.

Treatment: pediatric dyspeptic diarrhea. Ten paintings