Sichuan pepper is a common spice, which can bring a special spicy and numb feeling to food, especially when cooking Sichuan cuisine, it is indispensable to put a little Sichuan pepper to add a different flavor to the dish.
But many people don't know that Sichuan pepper is actually a traditional Chinese medicine, and it has unexpected effects when used in medicine, so you might as well take a look!
1. Relieve toothache
Sichuan pepper is a spicy and numb spice, which can stimulate the oral nerves and cause a temporary paralyzing sensation.
According to the "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica", it is recorded that Zanthoxylum pepper can remove cold and paralysis, strengthen teeth, anesthetize and relieve pain, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" also records that Zanthoxylum pepper is soaked in liquor for oral administration, which can be used to treat the pain caused by tooth decay. Therefore, the miraculous effect of Sichuan pepper in relieving toothache has been demonstrated by ancient Chinese medicine.
The specific method of using Sichuan pepper to relieve toothache is: soak Sichuan pepper in boiling water for a few minutes, let the medicinal ingredients dissolve into the water, and then add a little high liquor, wait for it to cool to a suitable temperature, and then use it to rinse the mouth, or hold it in the mouth for a few minutes, repeat several times, and have a good relieving effect on the pain caused by tooth decay or gum inflammation.
2. Treatment of beriberi
Sichuan pepper has a pungent taste and a warm nature, and has the effect of relieving pain in temperature and dispelling dampness and cold. Boiling water with Sichuan pepper to soak feet can play a role in activating blood and removing blood stasis, unblocking the meridians, effectively improving sleep quality, enhancing the body's immunity, and treating beriberi.
The specific method of treating beriberi is to put the pepper into a cotton bag, tie the bag with a rope, put it in an appropriate amount of water to boil, boil it for ten minutes, and then pour a little white vinegar to enhance the effect of inhibiting fungi.
After cooling to a suitable temperature, it is used to soak the feet, and it is very helpful to treat athlete's foot, and it has a good effect on health care and enhancing physical fitness.
3. Relieve mouse hand
Nowadays, many Internet workers or white-collar workers in the workplace are inseparable from keyboards and mice in their daily work, and it is easy to suffer from mouse hands over time.
Mild patients will often feel soreness and pain in the wrist joints, and in severe cases, the joints will be red and swollen, and even the flexibility of the fingers will be greatly reduced, and some patients with severe symptoms will feel the pain in the wrist joints will implicate the entire arm, and even the shoulders and neck, causing great inconvenience to life.
If you suffer from mouse hands, you may wish to try pepper water to soak the wrist joints.
Because the volatile oil in Sichuan pepper has the effect of anesthesia and analgesia, blood circulation and stasis, which can effectively relieve joint pain and discomfort, and remove the cold and dampness of damaged joint stasis.
The specific method is to take an appropriate amount of peppercorns, put them in a cotton bag, put them in water and boil, boil them for ten minutes on low heat, let them cool slightly and then use them to soak the wrist joints, and can also be used to scrub the arms, shoulders, neck and other painful parts.
To sum up, Sichuan pepper is not only a spice, it also has the effect of dispelling cold and dampness, and analgesic in temperature, so boiled water of Sichuan pepper has a very good therapeutic effect on tooth pain, athlete's foot, mouse hand and other diseases. After knowing these wonderful uses of Sichuan pepper, don't throw away Sichuan pepper casually, make the best use of it, and there will be unexpected gains.