Functions: pepper can warm the middle and disperse cold, remove dampness, relieve pain, kill insects, and detoxify fish. It can also cure the accumulation of food and drink, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, vomiting, yelping, coughing and gas reversal, wind-cold and damp paralysis, diarrhea, dysentery, hernia pain, toothache, ascariasis, pinworms, yin itch and scabies.

Use: Pepper has a fixed numbness, increase the role of pungent and fishy minus dank, ranked in the seasoning "thirteen spices," the first, known as "the king of seasoning," the reputation. Pepper is also a flavor of Chinese medicine, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" will be listed as a product. Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the day: "pepper firm teeth, hair, eyesight, long service good color, resistance to old age, increase in years, health God."

Modern medical research has proved that pepper contains volatile oil, alkaloids, coumarins and organic acids, with local anesthesia, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, inhibition, antioxidant, anti-tumor, insecticidal and other pharmacological activities. Kitchen spices are not only able to make the dish more delicious, there are certain health effects.

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Peppercorns of the marvelous use

1, the treatment of toothache

2, to prevent rice insects

First of all, prepare a paper towel, and then play a spoonful of pepper, then use the paper towel will be wrapped up in pepper, and finally the paper towel into the rice pile. This will have the effect of preventing the rice from getting insects.

3, reduce the mouse hand

"Mouse hand" will not only appear wrist joints are swollen, finger movement is not flexible, intense pain will also move to the arm, shoulder and neck. This time may try to soak in pepper water. Pepper which contains volatile oil has local anesthesia and analgesic effect, by the "mouse hand" caused by the pain has a certain role in relieving.

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