Nutritional value of Sichuan pepper

Sichuan peppercorn

The fruit of Zanthoxylum bungeanum contains 0.7% volatile oil (Guizhou), 2-4% (Gansu), and 4-9% (Guangdong). The volatile oil contains geraniol, limonene, cumyl alcohol, etc. The fruit also contains sterols, unsaturated organic acids, etc.

The fruit of the fragrant pepper (produced in Northeast China) contains bergamotol and bergamot lactone. The main component of the volatile oil in the fruit is bergamotol, accounting for about 90%. The peel contains bergamot lactone and benzoic acid. [Functions and indications] Warming the middle and dispelling cold, removing dampness, relieving pain, killing insects, and removing fishy odor. Treating food stagnation, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, vomiting, belching, coughing and gas reversal, wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, diarrhea, dysentery, hernia pain, toothache, ascariasis, pinworm disease, vaginal itching, sores and scabies.

Nutritional value of Sichuan pepper

② "Bie Lu": "It can treat throat paralysis, vomiting, hernia, remove old blood, abdominal pain caused by postpartum diseases, sweating, and benefit the five internal organs." "It can eliminate coldness of the six internal organs, typhoid fever, warm malaria, strong wind and inability to sweat, retained fluid in the heart and abdomen, food stagnation, intestinal dysentery, spermatorrhea, residual diseases of women, dissipate wind evil, edema, jaundice, kill insects and fish poison. It can open the pores, dredge the blood vessels, strengthen teeth and hair, regulate joints, and resist cold and heat. It can be used as a plaster."

③ "Medicinal Properties": "It can treat wind, stubborn numbness of the whole body and limbs, edema and shaking of the mouth and teeth; it can treat menstrual blockage in women, postpartum bloody dysentery, chronic dysentery, hair growth, and cold pain in the abdomen." "It can treat head wind and tears, waist and leg paralysis, deficiency and knot retention, blood breaking, stone water, cold and pain in the abdomen, and toothache."

④ "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": "It can eliminate scars and promote lactation."

⑤ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "It can relieve symptoms, stimulate appetite, treat seasonal fever, postpartum blood, treat heart and abdomen qi, strengthen yang, treat yin sweat, warm the waist and knees, and reduce urination."

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can dispel cold and dampness, relieve depression, eliminate food stagnation, clear the three burners, warm the spleen and stomach, nourish the right kidney, kill roundworms, and stop diarrhea."

【Usage and Dosage】Oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1.5 qian; or make into pills or powder. External use: grind into powder and apply or decoction for washing. 【Clinical application】①Treatment of ascariasis intestinal obstruction

Use 2-4 liang of sesame oil, put it in a pot and boil it, add 3-4 qian of pepper, and remove it when it is slightly burnt; take it all at once when the pepper oil is slightly warm. In the treatment of 8 children, the abdominal pain stopped 15-30 minutes after taking the medicine, and then defecation, and some of them expelled ascaris at the same time. If the obstruction time is too long, the symptoms of poisoning are obvious, there is intestinal necrosis or the possibility of appendicitis ascaris, it is not suitable to take it.

②Treatment of schistosomiasis

It has been tried for early and middle stage schistosomiasis and has a certain effect on improving symptoms. After taking the medicine, the appetite increases and the liver and spleen shrink to varying degrees. Usage: Fry and grind the pepper into powder and put it into capsules. Adults take 5 grams per day, divided into 3 times. A course of treatment is 20 to 25 days.

③Treatment of enterobiasis

1 liang of Sichuan pepper, add 2 jin of water