Pepper is an inaccessible seasoning in the kitchen, it is strong, fragrant and numb, both the north and the south “can not stop” it. In fact, in Chinese medicine, pepper can also play a unique role! Pepper foot soak – prevention of foot fungus, also known as “athlete’s foot” and foot fungus, the Internal Canon says: “all dampness and swelling, all belong to the spleen”. “Those who are injured by dampness, the lower suffer first.” This is because the spleen is the master of the limbs, the foot lives in the lower, and more damp, dampness into heat, dampness and heat, the pain is made. Very consistent with the characteristics of athlete’s foot. Pepper is warm in nature and pungent in taste. Warm can disperse cold, pungent can reach the four ends, the foot is the end of the lower extremities, is the lowest place in the body, is also the foot Taiyin spleen meridian, foot Yangming stomach meridian, foot Shao Yin kidney meridian tour end point, pepper to the spleen meridian, stomach meridian, kidney meridian, so from the efficacy can be seen, pepper can warm the pain, and pepper originated in Sichuan Shu cold and wet land, the power to drive cold and dry damp is particularly obvious, and pepper to the meridian can make pepper to drive cold and dry damp more meridian On the other hand, the fungus and other microorganisms that cause “athlete’s foot” infections are collectively called “worms” in Chinese medicine, and the power of pepper to kill worms and relieve itching, the smell of aromatic, both for the symptoms of athlete’s foot odor, but also for its cause “worms” for treatment, is a multi-benefit. Chinese medicine believes that pepper is because so good, you get it or not? Pepper foot treatment for athlete’s foot, each time the dosage of about 20-30g, water decoction for about 10-15 minutes, the water temperature is suitable to start soaking, each time the time can be 20-30 minutes, after soaking residual medicinal water does not need to wipe clean. The summer is starting to come, and some of our partners with bad skin are starting to suffer again. The actual eczema, according to Chinese medicine, is due to the endowment of intolerance, wind-heat contained within the external wind, wind-damp-heat evil fighting each other, soaked skin and become. As the name implies, “dampness” is the main factor. Because dampness is sticky, heavy, and changeable, the disease is prolonged and variable. What about eczema itching? There is a solution – pepper + bitter ginseng + snake bed seeds. Pepper is warm in nature and pungent in taste. The power of pepper to expel cold and dry dampness is especially obvious, and the organs corresponding to its meridians are the key to the transportation of water and dampness throughout the body, making pepper dry dampness more targeted to the meridians, pepper insecticidal and anti-itch power of macro, aromatic smell, as well as pain relief and swelling, can relieve the itching symptoms caused by eczema. Serpentine tastes pungent, bitter, warm in nature. It belongs to the kidney meridian. Effects: Drying dampness and dispelling wind, killing insects and relieving itching, warming kidney and strengthening yang. It is used for itching in the pubic area, itching in eczema, dampness and lumbago, kidney deficiency and impotence, and infertility in the uterus. From the efficacy of the snake bed seed expression, the snake bed seed dry dampness to relieve itching, the parts referred to is the vulva, waist and back, precisely can make up for the pepper treatment biased under the foot deficiency, itself has a very good wind effect, for eczema caused by itching effect is more outstanding. Bitter ginseng is cold in nature and bitter in taste. It belongs to the heart, liver, stomach, large intestine and bladder meridians. It has the function of clearing heat, drying dampness, killing worms and promoting diuresis. Bitter ginseng cold nature can clear heat, eczema is mostly due to dampness and heat fight each other knot, pungent warm dry dampness is easy to hurt Yin, clear heat dry dampness is easy to wet condensation into phlegm, gum does not go, “Compendium of Materia Medica” said: “bitter ginseng …… its bitter dry dampness, cold in addition to heat. Heat produces wind, moisture produces worms, so it can cure wind and kill worms.” The “Dian Nan Ben Cao” also said: “cool the blood, detoxify the heat, scabies and mange. Chronic eczema is due to the lack of blood, damp heat stay, resulting in blood deficiency injury yin, dryness and wind, wind dryness, damp heat stagnation, skin loss of nourishment. Therefore, the addition of bitter ginseng is particularly beneficial for chronic eczema. The above drugs are mostly used externally for eczema, usually take 30g of pepper, 15g of bitter ginseng, 30g of serpentine, add the right amount of water and decoct for 15-20 minutes, take the juice to wash the feet, rub, or sit in the tub, pregnant women should not be used. Pepper hot compress – relieve joint muscle pain Small partners have elderly people at home, whether from time to time will be troubled by muscle joint pain, love sports, especially at first like sports partners, after the exercise of local muscle soreness, is it enough to make your love of sports hit a big discount? What to do? The kitchen herbs provide you with a good solution, it is – pepper. Pain, Chinese medicine will be classified as “paralysis” – “wind, cold and damp three gas mixed to, combined for paralysis. To treat pain, we must start with the wind, cold and damp. Pepper is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It is a member of the Spleen, Stomach and Kidney meridians. The power of pepper to expel cold and dry dampness is particularly obvious, as the internal organs corresponding to its meridians are the key to the transportation of water and dampness throughout the body, making pepper more targeted to dry dampness, and its pungent taste and pungent warmth can disperse cold and dampness in the muscle couples of the limbs. And pepper external application, usually with coarse salt shall be used, physician coarse salt as a good dispersion medium, but also because of the nature of coarse salt heavy, stable is its characteristics, coarse salt fried hot, fire system, a change in the nature of cold, salty taste into the kidney, nourishing warm kidney water, with the effect of wind, compressed in the body’s waist, knees, shoulders, abdomen and other parts, can play a health care physical therapy. It is really the best match for pepper. The above method can be used not only for the relief of muscle aches and pains after exercise, but also for paralysis and paralysis, back pain, arthritis, chronic stomach pain, diarrhea, neuralgia, and chilliness all have significant effects. Pepper 150g + coarse salt 1000g, stir-fried and heated in a pot, or placed in a cloth bag and heated in a microwave oven, apply hot to the affected area. If the salt bag is hot ironed on the affected area immediately after the fire cupping, it often plays a half-measure effect, which is beneficial and helps to eliminate evil and promote the recovery of the body. The pepper ginger cardamom – treatment of stomach cold abdominal pain summer it is so hot and spicy came to feed, and not to piggyback on the notice of the strong arrival of the blazing summer, air conditioning blowing, watermelon eating, cold beer, frozen drinks drinking cool? Is there still time to eat some ice cream? Until a certain time – ouch, how this stomach began to hurt up, what? The cold and cold things to eat too much, the stomach and intestines began to find trouble. Pepper ginger cardamom Pepper is warm, pungent, normalizing to the spleen, stomach and kidney meridian. Functions: Warming the middle and relieving pain, killing insects and relieving itching. Pepper is used for cold pain in the stomach and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, is the old business of pepper. Tasted pepper partners know that pepper has a distinct hemp taste, which is beneficial for the relief of abdominal pain; and ginger will be needless to say, warm nature, taste spicy, the best at dispelling wind and cold, especially good at relieving internal cold accumulation, external wind and cold pain in the stomach and epigastric, and ginger that think spicy taste, how to feel so loved! Cardamom and ginger with the ginger family of Chinese medicine, not a family does not enter a door, so, cardamom pungent warm, into the lung, spleen meridian. It can move qi, warm the stomach, eliminate food and broaden the middle. It is good for treating Qi stagnation, food stagnation, chest tightness, abdominal distension, yelp, choking, vomiting, regurgitation, and malaria. This is especially useful for those who have cold accumulation of abdominal pain and can’t get a burp for half a day and are suffocating in their stomach. Application method: The most between simple is to pepper 3g, ginger 10g, cardamom kernel 3g, with boiling water 150ml soak about 5-10 minutes, warm take the best effect. After draining the water is still warm dregs can not be immediately discarded oh, while waiting for the cup of water temperature down, the dregs wrapped up hot compress Shen Que, the epigastric, also has a very good effect of dispersing cold and relieve pain yo.