Lingnan, with its unique geographical location, has developed a unique food culture that has resulted in a unique use of traditional Chinese medicine, such as in the Chaoshan region, where there is a unique flavoring ingredient, marinade. Marinade is a kind of soy sauce cooked with a variety of spices, is commonly used in Cantonese and Sichuan cuisines as well as many snacks in the seasoning, and the achievements of marinade delicious, which contains a variety of not only delicious, but also has considerable health benefits of the spices of traditional Chinese medicine, which, of course, is not without the figure of pepper, so let’s learn about marinade among the most important spices of one of the traditional Chinese medicine: pepper. Pepper is a native plant of China, a long history of cultivation, as early as the “Poetry” in the “Pepper Chat of the fruit, reproduction of surplus rise” description. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the use of “pepper” in rituals was already a common phenomenon. Poetry – Ode to the Zhou – Zai mow” recorded the Zhou Dynasty, after the harvest, in the rituals to pray for blessings, said: “There is fragrance, the light of the state. With the fragrance of peppers, the state is bright.” Peppers are placed in the tribute to pray for family peace and good weather. In the poems and articles of writers and artists throughout the ages, there have been many praises of “pepper syrup”, “pepper wine” and “pepper room”. Pepper as medicine, “Shennong Ben Cao Jing” proposed: “the main evil cough, warming the middle, the bones and joints of the skin by the dead muscle, cold and damp paralyzing pain, under the gas.” The Compendium of Materia Medica mentions, “Pepper, pure yang thing, its flavor is pungent and hemp, its gas temperature to heat. Into the lung to dispel cold, cough; into the spleen to remove dampness, treatment of cold and damp paralysis, edema and diarrhea; into the right kidney to replenish the fire, treatment of yang failure ulcer number, foot weak, long diarrhea of all evidence.” The “Record of Famous Doctors” mentions that it “disperses wind-evil obstruction, edema, jaundice, and kills insect and fish poisons. Open the coupling, blood circulation, firm teeth and hair, adjust the joints, resistance to cold and heat, can be used as a poultice.” Opened the peppercorns as an external application of the precedent. Pepper Original Plant: Rutaceae, pepper plant pepper Medicinal Part: the dried mature pericarp of the plant. Flavor: Pungent, warm, hot. Meridian: Attributed to the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. Effects: Warming the middle and relieving pain, killing insects and relieving itching. Indications: Cold pain in the epigastric region, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain caused by worms; external use: eczema, vaginal itching. Pepper medicine and food, widely used in life, there are many applications in the clinic: 1, peppercorns have aromatic stomach, warming and dispersing the role of cold, often with ginger, cardamom, etc., can be used for external cold invasion, stomach cold abdominal pain, vomiting, etc., summer over-eating cold gastrointestinal discomfort caused by a small amount of peppercorns soak and drink also have a good effect of relieving gastrointestinal discomfort. And with umeboshi, dry ginger, cypress, etc., is the basis of the Zhongjing prescription umeboshi pill, can be used for worm accumulation abdominal pain, hand and foot syncope, boredom vomit roundworm and other diseases. 2, pepper sex warm, pungent flavor is obvious, can have the effect of cold dehumidification pain, for the body joints and muscle pain, pepper fried hot gauze wrapped in hot compresses on the painful parts, you can achieve the effect of pain, pepper bias in the warmth of the lower and middle Jiao, good dispel cold, cold condensation of blood stasis and stagnation of menstrual cramps is particularly good, with the right amount of pepper research powder, white wine into a burnt paste, compresses in the umbilicus; dampness, uterine chills, to pepper boiling water Fumigation, can achieve the effect of cold dampness, itching, can regulate the gynecological band under the dribbling and other inflammation witnessed. 3, pepper has the effect of killing insects and itching, often with bitter ginseng, snakebeds, groundnut, cypress, etc., can be used for eczema itching, and in the hot summer, the regular use of pepper foot baths, but also to achieve the prevention of “athlete’s foot” good results. Peppercorns into the spleen, stomach, kidney meridian, and the soles of the feet is the spleen meridian, gastric mirror, kidney meridian tour endpoints to warm pepper, plus ginger, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, decoction used for foot baths, can be the bottom of the spleen and stomach, liver, gallbladder, kidney, bladder, full coverage of the temperature through, long-term persistence, up to the effect of prolonging life. Pepper seeds, that is, the Chinese medicine of pepper, bitter, pungent, warm. Small poison. Attributed to the spleen, lung, bladder meridian. Favor water swelling, expectorant and asthma. Used for edema and distension, asthma. Pepper aims to dispel dampness and promote the efficacy of water is far above the pepper, so in the external treatment of pepper foot method, pepper if not selected contains pepper seeds more suitable for people with heavy wet.