The efficacy and function of wild pepper

Nowadays, our living standards are constantly improving, but our health quality is constantly declining. Unscientific diet poses a potential threat to our bodies. Many Chinese medicinal herbs can regulate and improve our bodies. Here I would like to introduce wild pepper to you.

[Other names] Sea eggplant (Commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Sichuan), rock pepper, Guanyin lotus, jade coral (Catalogue of Guizhou Medicinal Plants).

[Source] It is the whole herb of the Solanaceae plant. Harvested in summer and autumn, and sun-dried.

[Original form] Small shrub, 30 to 60 cm high. The stem is gray-brown, the new branches are green, and the young branches, petioles, undersides of leaves and fruit stalks are all stellately pubescent or slightly pubescent. Simple leaves are alternate, ovate-oblong, 2.5-5 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, often 2 growing in one place, one large and one small, with obtuse apex, narrow base into a petiole, entire or wavy margin, sparsely covered with short hairs or nearly glabrous on the upper side, sparsely covered with short hairs or stellate hairs on the lower side. 1-2 flowers grow outside the leaf axils; flowers are small and white; calyx is green, slightly bell-shaped, 5-lobed at the top, and slightly hairy; corolla is shallowly bell-shaped, 5-lobed; 5 stamens, yellow; style is linear, stigma is small, and slightly capitate. The berries are spherical, orange-red or red, and about 2 cm in diameter. The seeds are numerous, flat, slightly reniform, and smooth. Flowering period is from March to June. Fruiting period is from April to July.

[Habitat distribution] Growing in wasteland and forest edges. Distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou; cultivated in Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places.

[Chemical composition] The leaves contain chlorophyll.

[Pharmacological action] Coralline has anti-tuberculosis and Pneumococcal effects; the concentration of inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro is 3 mg/ml, and the effect is not affected by serum. It can also serve as a precursor of steroids.

[Properties and flavors] "Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Sichuan": "Sweet and spicy, warm, slightly toxic."

【Functions and indications】 ① "Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Sichuan": "It can eliminate stagnation, relieve diaphragm, and relieve heat toxins. It can treat rheumatism, paralysis, damp-heat itching sores."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 3 to 6 qian.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Sichuan"

Above, we introduced what wild pepper is and understood the effects and functions of wild pepper. Wild pepper can improve our immunity. Wild pepper also has a therapeutic effect in health care and has many benefits to our body.