Pepper (hú jiāo fěn), also known as Gu Yue powder, by the tropical plant pepper tree fruit crushed and become, mainly produced in India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and other countries, China's Guangdong Province, Hainan Island also have production.

Pepper is one of Hainan's most famous specialties, it is both a good seasoning, but also a valuable medicinal herbs. Pepper can be medicine, food and dual-use, Chinese medicine says pepper has the function of warming the stomach and dispersing cold. The main food method is to eat pepper directly. Pepper and the world's major flavoring spices, fruit contains volatile oil 1-2%, piperine 8-9%, also contains crude fat, protein, starch, soluble nitrogen and other substances. Pepper contains special ingredients that make pepper has a unique aromatic flavor, and bitter and spicy flavor, become popular with the people with spicy condiments. Although pepper is mainly used as a condiment, but in fact there are many other uses. Such as: folk with "pepper stew pork belly" treatment of chronic gastrointestinal diseases.

Pepper is a kind of spice made of pepper. Production steps are: take clean pepper after drying, put into the frying pan, frying with moderate heat, frying while stirring; or frying machine at 120-130 ℃ frying 6-10 minutes, take out the natural cooling to room temperature, with a pulverizer crushed to 80-100 mesh, according to the ration into a plastic film composite bag, sealing that is the pepper powder finished product.

Pepper flavor pungent, hot, to the spleen, stomach meridian;

Warming and dispersing cold, dehumidification pain, insecticide detoxification, itching and anthelmintic effect;

Mainly for the treatment of vomiting, rheumatism and cold paralysis, toothache and other conditions.