What are the benefits of eating pepper?

As we all know, pepper is used for seasoning, especially various meat dishes need pepper for seasoning, so that they can better taste and enhance the freshness. In addition to these functions, pepper can also treat symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. Pepper itself is hot in nature and has the effect of stopping phlegm and removing blood stasis. It can also detoxify food. Although it has many benefits, you should not eat too much to avoid getting angry.

The role of pepper

Pepper is spicy and hot in nature, and enters the stomach and large intestine meridians; it has the effects of warming the middle and lowering the qi, eliminating phlegm and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat cold phlegm and food accumulation, cold pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting of clear water, diarrhea, and cold dysentery; it can be applied externally to treat sores, snake bites, and dog bites; it can also detoxify food.

1. White pepper powder has great medicinal value. It can dispel cold, strengthen the stomach, increase appetite, aid digestion, and promote sweating. It can also improve abnormal leucorrhea and epilepsy in women.

2. The smell of pepper can increase appetite;

3. Pepper powder is warm in nature and can relieve stomach and abdominal pain, abdominal rumbling and diarrhea caused by stomach cold, and can also treat colds;

4. Pepper powder has the function of antiseptic and antibacterial, and can detoxify fish and shrimp;

5. The spiciness of black pepper is stronger than that of white pepper. It is spicy when swallowed and can remove fishy smell and enhance flavor. It is mostly used in cooking offal and seafood dishes.

The Difference Between Black Pepper and White Pepper

White pepper and black pepper are one white and one black, so they should be easy to distinguish. But if you blindfold yourself and only let you smell them, can you tell the difference? Also, although they are both peppers, what are the differences between them?

1. Taste

1. White pepper: The aroma is slightly lighter, the spiciness is stronger, and it can bring out the umami flavor; it can be paired with vegetarian dishes.

2. Black pepper: It has a stronger aroma and can make cooking spicy, delicious and appetizing. It is mostly used in meat dishes, especially beef.

2. Efficacy

Generally speaking, most peppers grow in areas with high temperatures and long-term humidity, and are spicy and hot in nature, so they have a stronger effect of warming the middle, dispelling cold and relieving pain. The further south the pepper grows, the warmer its nature is, because it fully absorbs the yang and heat of the south. Therefore, Hainan pepper has the strongest warming effect. White pepper has a slightly higher medicinal value and a slightly lower seasoning effect. Its taste is spicier than black pepper, so it has stronger functions in dispelling cold and strengthening the stomach. People with cold lungs and excessive phlegm can add white pepper to mutton soup to warm the lungs and eliminate phlegm. Some people are prone to stomach pain due to weak stomach and intestines. You can add ginseng and Atractylodes macrocephala when stewing the meat, and then add some white pepper for seasoning. In addition to dispelling the cold, it can also warm the spleen and stomach. When eating cold dishes, it is best to add some white pepper powder to remove the coolness and prevent the cold. According to traditional Chinese medicine, black foods enter the kidneys. Therefore, black pepper has a significant effect in warming and nourishing the spleen and kidneys. It can treat "chicken-crowing diarrhea" (frequent diarrhea in the morning) caused by spleen and kidney deficiency and coldness. The method is to drink broth seasoned with black pepper the night before.