Think it's just a condiment? I can only say that you are ignorant

There is a saying in "The Book of Songs: Tang Feng": "The fruits of Sichuan pepper are so abundant that they fill up the soil." The ancients believed that the fragrance of Sichuan pepper could ward off evil spirits, and the abundant fruits of Sichuan pepper meant the prosperity of descendants. However, most people's understanding of Sichuan pepper starts with its use as a seasoning!

However, did you know that in addition to being a seasoning, Sichuan pepper also has important medicinal value! Why not take a look at today’s text!

Sichuan peppercorn

Warming the middle and killing insects, relieving pain, regulating menstruation and aiding pregnancy

Zanthoxylum bungeanum, spicy and hot. It enters the spleen, stomach, and kidney meridians and enters the uterus. Function: warming the middle and relieving pain, killing insects and relieving itching, and relieving pain.

application

1. Regulate menstruation and relieve pain

This product is pungent and hot, and has the effects of killing insects, regulating menstruation and relieving pain. It is used for dysmenorrhea caused by a mixture of cold and heat; when worms accumulate inside the body, they produce poisons that turn into heat, disturb the blood sea, and damage the Chong and Ren meridians for metrorrhagia. Symptoms include abdominal pain during menstruation, chills and cold limbs, dry lips and bitter taste in the mouth, dark red tongue, white or yellow tongue coating, stringy pulse; metrorrhagia, intermittent abdominal pain, or ascariasis. It can be used together with black plum, cinnamon twig, aconite, asarum, coptis root, phellodendron, Corydalis yanhusuo, and pollen, such as the Wumei Pill in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases". Sichuan pepper is an insecticide, not a medicine for stopping uterine bleeding. It is used to treat metrorrhagia which is caused by worms. Killing the worms to treat metrorrhagia is to seek the cause and the root of the problem, which is what the "Inner Canon of Medicine" means: "We must subdue the main cause and treat the cause first."

2. Kill insects and relieve pain

This product has insecticidal effect and is used for gestational biliary ascariasis with upper heat and lower cold, and ascariasis moving up the bile duct. Symptoms include sudden pain in the upper abdomen, intermittent pain in the top of the head, vomiting of roundworms, and other symptoms as above. The prescription and medicine are as above, which have the effect of calming worms, killing parasites and relieving pain. If the combination is appropriate, it will not harm the fetus.

Case examples

40 years ago, when my sister-in-law was five months pregnant, she suddenly felt severe pain in her upper abdomen, which came and went. She also had a bitter taste in her mouth and was thirsty, and she vomited a roundworm. The tongue is red, the coating is yellow, and the pulse is stringy and rapid. Prescribe Wumei Pills by removing Aconite, Codonopsis, and Phellodendron, and adding 12g of Scutellaria, 30g of White Peony Root, and 6g of Toosendan Fructus. Take 2 doses and the pain will stop after taking them. After taking two more doses, several roundworms were passed out and the patient was cured.

3. Kill insects and relieve itching

Used for vaginal itching due to leucorrhea (trichomoniasis vaginitis, candidal vaginitis, vulvitis, vulvar eczema, etc.), and is compatible with Cnidium monnieri, Kochia scoparia, Sophora flavescens, Phellodendron chinense, etc. The decoction is used for flushing the vagina. It is not recommended for unmarried or pregnant women. Or take a sitz bath. Sichuan pepper not only kills roundworms, but can also be used to treat red worm disease. It can be used in combination with black plum, betel nut, costus root, pumpkin seeds, etc. To treat pinworms, boil them together with Stemona bulbosa and use it as an enema to kill the worms and stop itching around the anus.

4. Warming Yang and aiding pregnancy

This product is hot in nature, enters the spleen and kidney meridians, warms the yang of the spleen and kidneys, and aids pregnancy by warming the Chong and Ren meridians, uterus and uterus. When used together with ginseng, dodder seed, eucommia bark, angelica sinensis, and atractylodes macrocephala, the recipe becomes Yu Lin Zhu. Appropriate addition and subtraction of the ingredients can have a positive effect on infertility caused by endocrine disorders, infertility caused by uterine hypoplasia, and immune infertility. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is pungent, warm and dry in nature, and can warm the middle, dry dampness and dispel cold. It is also often used for stomachache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms caused by cold and dampness in the middle burner.

Dosage

3~6g.

Pharmacological references

It inhibits gastrointestinal motility and has antispasmodic and analgesic effects on gastrointestinal smooth muscles. It has a strong antispasmodic effect on uterine smooth muscle spasm. It has a strong analgesic effect. It has the effect of expelling roundworms. It has antibacterial effects on many bacteria and some skin fungi.

It can excite the central nervous system, dilate skin blood vessels, and promote the secretion of sweat glands, thereby playing a role in sweating and relieving fever. It has inhibitory effects on many bacteria and viruses. It has choleretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipruritic effects.