Pepper, mainly from Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan and other regions. In the late fall to early spring of the following year, the fruit shows dark green when harvested, sun-dried, to get the black pepper. Harvested when the fruit becomes red, dry, get the white pepper.
The flavor of pepper is more familiar and pungent. Warm and hot in nature. Attributed to the stomach meridian, large intestine meridian. The main effects of pepper are: warming the middle and dispersing cold, lowering qi and eliminating phlegm.
Pepper is a warming medicine. Warming the middle and dispersing cold is its main effect. Clinically, it is mainly used to treat cold stomach and abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea and other diseases. Pepper also said earlier that its hot and pungent nature, good at warming the middle disperses cold pain, when the stomach by cold evil, cold pain in the abdomen, or even vomiting, diarrhea, you can be a single pepper research into the powder into the pork belly stewed service.
Pepper also has the effect of eliminating phlegm. Pepper is pungent and warm, down the qi stagnation, phlegm and qi, broad chest pain, for phlegm and stagnant qi stagnation, obscuring the clear orifices of the epileptic phlegm evidence, you can take the pepper with the Wicker together to use.
This article is intended to popularize the efficacy of Chinese medicine, and does not recommend the arbitrary use, if necessary, please go to the regular hospital, follow the doctor's instructions, do not take unauthorized medicines.