What’s the difference between pepper and peppercorns

Pepper is a powder made of Chinese medicine pepper, its flavor, efficacy and pepper in all aspects of the same, so the difference between pepper and pepper is mainly reflected in the medicinal source and flavor, efficacy, usage and other aspects.
1. medicinal source and flavor: pepper for the rue family plant green pepper or pepper dry mature fruit skin, sexual temperature; pepper for the pepper family plant pepper dry near mature or mature fruit, sexual heat.
2. Efficacy: pepper has the effect of warming the middle and relieving pain (by warming the spleen and stomach to relieve pain), killing insects and relieving itching, used for cold pain in the middle and stomach and abdomen (stomach and abdomen feel cold pain), vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain of insect accumulations, itching, eczema.
Pepper has the efficacy of warming the middle and dispersing the cold (dispersing the cold with medicine that warms the spleen and stomach), lowering the qi and eliminating phlegm, and is used for vomiting with cold stomach, loss of appetite, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and epileptic phlegm.
3. Usage: Pepper can be decocted and used externally; pepper can be powdered and swallowed or used externally.
Pepper and pepper in the efficacy, role and other aspects are different, specific medication is recommended to follow the doctor’s instructions, should not blindly use their own medicine, so as to avoid adverse effects.