Peppercorns, as a common condiment in daily life, not only add flavor to meals to promote appetite, but also warm the body, get rid of cold and dampness, and protect our spleen and stomach. Due to the important characteristic of the warmth of peppercorns, some people will be poured into the foot wash water to soak their feet, in addition to effectively removing foot odor, foot sweat and foot odor, but also can drive away the cold, increase the body's immune system, prevent influenza and so on. Some people will also make a health tea from peppercorns in hot water, and find that the benefits of peppercorn water are really too many!
Dispersing cold and replenishing yang: yang qi is the source of life of the human body, when a person is spirited, yang qi, and when a person is seriously ill, yang qi will be insufficient. That is why people compare yang qi to the sun in the human body; if you have yang, you will live, and if you lose yang, you will die. If a person's yang qi is insufficient, there will be cold evil invasion of the body, and pepper has the effect of dispersing cold, can help the body dispersal of cold, to restore the effective operation of yang qi, yang qi restoration will be able to drive the qi and blood to run normally, will be nutrient delivery to the various parts of the body, to maintain the health of the body.
Beauty, anti-aging: Ancient records, pepper can remove the cold evil gas, restore the operation of Yang Qi, enhance the transport function of the spleen and stomach, into the spleen and stomach biochemical out of more blood, thus playing a nutritious skin, restoring the skin look glossy role. In addition, peppercorns can promote the function of human endocrine glands, slowing down the decline of endocrine function in middle-aged and elderly people. So people who drink pepper water for a long time can maintain the endocrine function for a longer period of time, they will be able to secrete androgens and estrogens, slowing down the aging process of various parts of the body.
Firm teeth and hair: drinking pepper water for a long time can warm and disperse the body's yin and cold, restore the function of liver and kidney yang qi, and promote the kidney to produce marrow, to achieve the purpose of healthy teeth. In addition peppercorns can also eliminate the cold condensation of the body surface, remove the metabolic garbage and toxins that block the pores, so as to achieve the effect of warming the hair. Modern people according to this characteristic of pepper, pepper extract ingredients added to hair care products, found that the addition of pepper extract conditioner on the growth of gray hair inhibition, but it did not make gray hair black effect.
Warming the stomach and analgesic: drinking pepper water for a long time can remove the dampness within the organs and improve gastrointestinal discomfort, cold spleen and stomach as well as vomiting and diarrhea. If you sit or stand for a long time and back pain, muscle weakness, but also the moisture within the muscles at work, drink pepper water can effectively soothe the soreness, so that the body is more healthy. For women, menstruation is the cold and dampness of the heaviest time, this time to drink pepper water, not only to warm the stomach, but also on the treatment of female leukorrhea abnormalities and long-term menstrual pain. The anti-inflammatory and antiseptic effect of pepper is the gospel of women's gynecological problems.
Of course, pepper water is not for everyone. For the body with stomach or abdominal cold pain, loss of appetite, the elderly, cold amenorrhea or cold dysmenorrhea women, wind-cold-dampness arthritis, as well as insufficient kidney yang, frequent urination can be consumed. However, it is contraindicated for those who have a deficiency of Yin or are sick and for pregnant women, because pepper is hot and will cause discomfort to the body for these people who need to rest and recuperate.
In addition, peppercorn infused water is not only very beneficial to personal health, but also in the life of the need for small wonderful use. You can sprinkle pepper powder on pickled food to extend the shelf life of food, or pepper sprinkled on the surface of the bag of grain to repel the invasion of mosquitoes, you can also put a few peppercorns in the deep-fried food to prevent the oil from deep-frying out, and you can even use it to simmer with vinegar to contain in the mouth for a few minutes to alleviate toothache. I did not realize that these small round spices, there are so many roles, hurry to a cup of pepper water!