Any food has its special functions and functions. It has many effects and influences on human body. We can also soak it in water at ordinary times. This medicinal material is worth studying. Do you understand the function and efficacy of pepper?
Function and efficacy of Zanthoxylum bungeanum 1
1, Zanthoxylum bungeanum introduction
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is the dry and mature peel of rutaceae shrubs or small trees, which usually ripens around early autumn. Produced in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Yunnan and other provinces, Sichuan has good quality, and Hebei and Shanxi have high output.
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a unique spice in China, ranking first among the thirteen spices. Can be used for marinated vegetables, marinated vegetables, side dishes, Sichuan pickles, chickens, ducks, fish, cattle and sheep, etc. You can also grind it into powder, mix it with salt, and make it into salt and pepper to eat. There are two kinds of Zanthoxylum bungeanum and Zanthoxylum bungeanum, which are good seasonings and can also be used to extract oil. The oil yield is above 25%.
Zanthoxylum bungeanum oil has a strong fragrance and is a good edible oil. The produced pepper is spicy and delicious, and the aroma is overflowing after frying. Can be used for cooking alone, such as Chili noodles; It can also be mixed with other raw materials to make condiments, which are widely used and have good effects, such as spiced noodles, salt and pepper, onion salt and pepper, etc.
2. Nutritional value of Zanthoxylum bungeanum
Pericarp contains volatile oil, and the main components of oil are limonene, cumyl alcohol and geraniol. In addition, it also contains many compounds such as phytosterol and unsaturated organic acid.
3, the purchase of pepper
When buying peppers: at first glance, peppers with small seeds and light purple shells are better; Second, if good peppers are not heated, the fragrance is difficult to come out; Three rubs, after rubbing, pepper fragrance is better, after rubbing, there is heavy color on the hands or heavy color oozing in the water, and there may be pigment; The shell is wet and does not feel oily.
4, the efficacy and role of pepper.
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is pungent and hot, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian; Has the effects of aromatic invigorating stomach, warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, removing dampness, relieving pain, killing insects and detoxicating, relieving itching and removing fishy smell; Indications: Vomiting, wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, toothache, etc.
1, grain pest control
The stored grain is eaten up, and dozens of peppers are wrapped in cloth and put in, so the bugs will run away or die by themselves.
2. Grease prevents "bad taste"
Adding a proper amount of pepper powder to the oil can prevent the oil from becoming unpleasant.
Step 3 appetize
Zanthoxylum bungeanum has a fragrant smell, which can remove the fishy smell of various meats, promote saliva secretion and stimulate appetite.
Step 4 lower blood pressure
Studies have found that Zanthoxylum bungeanum can dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure.
5. Insect repellent
Taking pepper can repel insects.
6. ants in the cupboard
With dozens of flowers and peppers in the cupboard, ants are afraid to go in.
7. Food for flies
Put some pepper next to the food and meat, and the flies will not climb.
8, prevent boiling oil overflow
When cooking, if the oil is heated to the boiling point, it will overflow from the pot, but if you add a few peppers, the boiling oil will disappear immediately.
9. Prevention of toothache
If it is a toothache caused by hot and cold food, put a handful of pepper on the painful tooth and the pain will slowly disappear.
5. The difference between pepper and pepper
(1) Different varieties
Zanthoxylum bungeanum: Zanthoxylum bungeanum belongs to the genus Zanthoxylum in Rutaceae. Its fruit is round, as big as mung bean. The whole plant can be used as medicine and edible.
Pepper: Pepper is a woody vine belonging to Piperaceae and Piperaceae. Its fruit is a round berry, and the edible part is only berries.
(2) Different shapes
Zanthoxylum bungeanum: Although the whole grass of Zanthoxylum bungeanum is edible, the skin of its fruit is commonly used. It is blue when it is born, with many seeds in one handle, red when it is mature, and black seeds.
Pepper: The edible part of pepper is only its berries. The seeds of the edible part are blue when they are born and milky when they mature.
(3) Different components
Zanthoxylum bungeanum: The main aroma components of Zanthoxylum bungeanum are volatile alkenes, including limonene, cedrene, myrcene and perillene.
Pepper: The main flavoring components of pepper are plant alkaloids and amines, including piperine, piperamide, hypopiperamide, piperine, piperonyl B, guinea piperamide, pseudopiperamide A and so on.
(4) Different uses
Zanthoxylum bungeanum: Zanthoxylum bungeanum is suitable for seasoning of any food, especially meat and vegetables. It has a strong fragrance and is often used in many traditional Chinese medicines and folk remedies. Has the effects of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, stimulating appetite, invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, relieving pain, expelling parasites, sterilizing, inducing diuresis, relieving swelling, stopping diarrhea and treating rheumatism.
Pepper: Pepper is mainly used for seasoning soup. Common chicken soup is the best combination, and its medicinal value is reflected in its warmth. Has the effects of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, stimulating appetite, and treating dyspepsia, cold phlegm, enteritis, bronchitis, common cold, rheumatism, etc.
Function and efficacy of Zanthoxylum bungeanum II
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a deciduous shrub or small tree belonging to Zanthoxylum of Rutaceae, which can be planted alone and used as a hedge. Its pericarp can be used as a delicious seasoning, can also extract aromatic oil, and can also be used as medicine, edible seeds and processed into soap. Zanthoxylum bungeanum can remove the fishy smell of all kinds of meat; It can also promote saliva secretion and increase appetite; Dilate blood vessels, thus effectively lowering blood pressure. The general population can eat it, but pregnant women and those with yin deficiency and excessive fire should eat less.
1, eczema itching, antibacterial effect
Zanthoxylum bungeanum can accelerate the death of various fungal cells and inhibit and kill deep fungi to some extent.
2. Insecticidal, antipruritic and anthelmintic effects
The volatile oil contained in Zanthoxylum bungeanum has a serious toxic effect on Ascaris lumbricoides in Ren's solution. Therefore, Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the effect of expelling insects.
3. Warming the middle and relieving pain has analgesic effect.
Zanthoxylum bungeanum has many functions, and it can also relieve the pain of injured parts, such as dental caries and toothache.
4, conducive to digestion, dehumidification, diarrhea.
No one knows that pepper is good for human digestive system. In addition, Zanthoxylum bungeanum can also treat diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by ulcer formation.
5, anticoagulant and hemostatic effects
Citrullin contained in Zanthoxylum bungeanum has certain anticoagulant and hemostatic effects on heparin. In the folk, some people rub pepper water around the wound to stop bleeding quickly.
6, back to milk
2 ~ 5g of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, 400 ~ 500ml of water, soaking, decocting, concentrating the water to 250ml, adding some brown sugar, taking it 1 time on the day of weaning, 1 time every day, about 1 ~ 3 times, and then returning to milk. The vast majority of lactating women's milk decreased significantly 6 hours after taking the medicine, and the second Tian Ru abdominal distension disappeared or the pain was relieved.
Nutrition and health care precautions of edible pepper
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is suitable for people with epigastric cold pain, vomiting, loss of appetite, bowel sounds and so on. Suitable for lactating women when weaning. It is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and women with cold dysmenorrhea, cold amenorrhea, wind-cold-dampness arthritis, kidney-yang deficiency, ascaris abdominal pain and frequent urination. The following people should not eat Chili.
1, people with lung and stomach fever, or coughing to produce phlegm, spitting sour water, being noisy and jealous, and having blood in the large intestine are not suitable for eating Chili.
2. Those with yin deficiency and fire are forbidden to eat Chili; Pregnant women should use Chili carefully, and if they eat too much, they will have a miscarriage.
3. Although Zanthoxylum bungeanum has the effect of eliminating dampness and relieving itching, it has certain curative effect on eczema, beriberi and other diseases. But for infants with delicate skin, it is not appropriate to scrub with pepper water.
4. When cooking, don't put pepper in the pepper. Zanthoxylum bungeanum can make the food more fragrant, but if you put it in with pepper, the pepper will burn before it is fried.