The efficacy and function of pepper branches

In fact, the whole body of Sichuan pepper is a treasure. Both the Sichuan pepper itself and its branches and leaves have very high nutritional value. However, many people use Sichuan pepper in their lives, and few people would think of using Sichuan pepper branches as Chinese medicinal materials. In fact, this kind of branch also contains the efficacy and functions of Sichuan pepper. Not only that, it also has its unique nutrients, so it can be very good for treating some children's diseases. It's just that most of this kind of medicinal materials are boiled into medicines for consumption.

1. Sichuan pepper can treat abdominal pain caused by worms, eczema, and vaginal itching. Sichuan pepper has the effect of expelling roundworms and killing insects. It is often used together with black plum, dried ginger, and phellodendron to treat abdominal pain caused by worms, cold feet, restlessness and vomiting of ascariasis, such as Wumei Pills (Treatise on Febrile Diseases); the decoction can be used alone as a retention enema to treat pinworm disease and perianal itching in children; if used together with Evodia rutaecarpa, Cnidium monnieri, Veratrum, old tea, and burnt salt, decocted in water for fumigation and washing, it can be used to treat unbearable vaginal itching in women that cannot be relieved without hot water washing, such as Jiaozhu Decoction (Medical Grade); used alone or with Sophora flavescens, Cnidium monnieri, Kochia scoparia, and Phellodendron, decocted for external washing to treat itching due to eczema.

2. Zanthoxylum bungeanum can treat abdominal pain caused by cold, vomiting and diarrhea caused by cold and dampness. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is pungent, dispersing, warming and dry. It enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It is good at warming the middle and drying dampness, dispersing cold and relieving pain, and stopping vomiting and diarrhea. It is often used together with ginger, white cardamom, etc. to treat external invasion of cold, stomach cold abdominal pain, vomiting and other symptoms; it is used with dried ginger, ginseng, etc. to treat spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, cold pain in the abdomen, vomiting, loss of appetite, etc., such as Da Jianzhong Decoction (Golden Chamber Synopsis); used with nutmeg, it can treat summer damage caused by dampness and cold, and diarrhea, such as Sichuan Pepper Pills (Children's Health General Micro-Discussion Prescriptions).

Chemical composition of Zanthoxylum bungeanum: The main component of the volatile oil in the peel is limonene, accounting for 25.10% of the total oil, 1,8-cineole accounts for 21.98%, myrcene accounts for 11.99%, and it also contains α-pinene, β-pinene, sabinene, perillaene, linalool, and esculentaol. The peel also contains agar-agar alkaloids, scutellaria baicalenic acid, rutaecarpine, and herbicide.

Pharmacological effects of Sichuan pepper: Sichuan pepper has the effect of resisting the formation of experimental gastric ulcers in animals; it has a bidirectional regulatory effect on the isolated small intestine of animals, being excitatory at low doses and inhibitory at high doses; it also has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects; its volatile oil has a certain inhibitory and killing effect on 11 types of dermatophytes and 4 types of deep fungi, among which Microsporum woolly and Trichophyton rubrum are the most sensitive, and it can kill scabies mites, etc.

Therefore, when we have stomach diseases, we might as well use pepper branches, because pepper branches can treat abdominal pain very well. Even gastric ulcers can be treated with this medicinal material. This combination of Chinese and Western methods will make your stomach healthier, will not directly irritate your gastric mucosa, and even have a certain bactericidal effect on your stomach, preventing the reappearance of bacteria.