What is the medicinal effect of pepper?

Chinese medicine believes that Zanthoxylum bungeanum is warm and pungent, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian. It has the effects of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, invigorating stomach, removing dampness, relieving pain, killing insects, detoxicating, regulating qi, relieving itching and removing fishy smell, and can be used for treating joint and muscle pain, epigastric cold pain, diarrhea and dysentery caused by food retention, abstinence from alcohol, hiccup and dampness resistance. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Zanthoxylum bungeanum has strong teeth, dark hair, bright eyes, long-term lewdness, anti-aging, longevity and brain strengthening." Women can add pepper to ginger jujube tea to regulate palace cold.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum belongs to the category of cold-dispelling drugs, which can dispel internal cold, support Yang Qi, benefit qi and promote blood circulation. Soaking feet with pepper water can promote blood circulation and dredge collaterals, so that the whole body blood vessels are unobstructed. As the old saying goes, "the cure is at the top and the cure is at the bottom". Soaking feet can promote the blood circulation of the body and enhance the barrier function of the respiratory system, so it is helpful to relieve cough symptoms, reduce the occurrence of colds and prevent the occurrence of hypertension.

Extended data:

It's a good idea to put some pepper in your mouth when you have a toothache. According to Shennong's Materia Medica, Zanthoxylum bungeanum is pungent and warm, which is mainly used to treat wind evil, warm middle warmer, dispel cold arthralgia, strengthen teeth and improve eyesight. Modern research shows that Zanthoxylum bungeanum has anesthetic effect, and it also contains anti-inflammatory and analgesic components and inhibits local inflammatory reaction. The volatile oil in Zanthoxylum bungeanum has good bacteriostatic and bactericidal effects on many bacteria and fungi.

It should be noted that Zanthoxylum bungeanum can stop toothache because it has local anesthesia and analgesic effects, so it can only be used as an analgesic for symptomatic treatment. If the patient is serious enough to have pulpitis, he should go to the hospital for dental treatment as soon as possible so as not to delay his illness.

References:

People's Network-The Great Efficacy of Counting Peppers