Sichuan pepper treats snoring

I believe everyone must be very familiar with Sichuan pepper. We often use Sichuan pepper as a seasoning when cooking. If plain ingredients are seasoned with Sichuan pepper, the taste will be richer. Sichuan pepper has the effect of increasing appetite and appetizing, so we like to use Sichuan pepper when cooking. Although Sichuan pepper is a supporting role in dishes, it can play an important role in treating diseases.

Sichuan peppercorns are not only edible but also medicinal. We don’t have a deep understanding of Sichuan peppercorns. In fact, many folk remedies use Sichuan peppercorns, so we must be good at using Sichuan peppercorns to serve our health.

Snoring (called "snoring syndrome" in traditional Chinese medicine) is not simply a physiological habit problem, but is more related to disease. Medical research believes that common causes of snoring include enlarged tonsils, hypertrophy of the nasopharynx, nasal polyps, rhinitis, pharyngitis, obesity, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, etc.

Sichuan pepper is a seasoning spice and also a commonly used Chinese medicine. According to traditional Chinese medicine, Sichuan pepper is spicy and warm in nature. It mainly has the effects of removing dampness and relieving pain, killing insects and detoxifying. It can treat wind-cold and dampness, cold pain in the abdomen, cold and damp diarrhea, abdominal pain caused by worms, intestinal cramps, ascariasis, toothache, vaginal itching, sores and scabies. Pharmacological studies have shown that Zanthoxylum bungeanum (oil) has the effects of vasodilation, blood pressure reduction, anti-inflammatory, anti-asthmatic and analgesic. Clinical verification shows that applying pepper decoction to the nasal cavity can reduce the sensitivity of the nasal mucosa to pathogenic bacteria and has a certain effect on allergic rhinitis. If snoring is caused by rhinitis or pharyngitis, and the snoring is mild, the above method may have some effect. However, there is no record of using Sichuan pepper to treat snoring in ancient medical literature or modern clinical literature, and the mechanism of its therapeutic effect is also unclear. The author believes that the causes of snoring are complex and severe snoring cannot be cured by medication. Therefore, even if the above examples are true, they can only be regarded as individual cases and are not worth promoting.

Tip: The common dosage of Sichuan pepper is 1.5 to 4.5 grams (for oral administration). People with yin deficiency and excessive fire and pregnant women should avoid eating it.

Fried salt to relieve joint pain

My wife has rheumatoid arthritis. Her knees hurt a lot in the winter, and taking painkillers all the time doesn't help. Fortunately, an old Chinese doctor gave me a folk remedy: take 500 grams of fine salt, fry it in a pan, add 15 grams each of scallion and ginger, wrap them together with a cloth, and apply it to the affected area while it is hot until the salt cools down; use it once a day for 1 week, it has the effect of expelling wind and dampness. My wife did get much better after using this recipe last winter.

Rheumatoid arthritis belongs to the category of "arthritis" in traditional Chinese medicine. This disease is caused by the invasion of wind, cold and dampness, which leads to qi stagnation, phlegm congestion and blood obstruction in the knee joints and local muscles. Joint pain, redness, or swelling are common symptoms. Traditional Chinese medicine treats this disease mainly by promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, and removing cold and heat.

Salt tastes salty, and salt enters the kidneys, which has the function of nourishing the kidneys and strengthening bones, warming the meridians and dredging collaterals. Hot compress with "fried salt" can dilate local blood vessels, speed up the excretion of local metabolic waste, relieve tissue spasms, promote the absorption of inflammation and blood stasis, and has better effect of reducing swelling and relieving pain; ginger is warm in nature and spicy in taste, can stimulate appetite and stop vomiting, induce sweating and relieve exterior symptoms. Ginger contains volatile oils such as gingerol, which has the functions of activating blood circulation, dispelling cold and removing dampness; onion roots (roots) are spicy in nature and have the effects of dispelling wind and venting, promoting yang and activating blood circulation, detoxifying and reducing swelling. Onions contain prostaglandin A, which has the effect of dilating small blood vessels and promoting blood circulation. Hot compress itself can dispel cold and relieve pain. The combination of fried salt and ginger and scallion can significantly warm the meridians and activate blood circulation, dispel wind and dampness, and relieve pain and swelling. Therefore, this prescription has a better effect on knee joint pain and redness and swelling, and also has a significant analgesic effect on joint pain caused by bone hyperplasia, sprains and "old cold legs".

Above we introduced what Sichuan pepper is. We know that Sichuan pepper is often used as a seasoning. It has the effect of stimulating the appetite. Sichuan pepper can not only be eaten but also used as medicine. We must be good at using Sichuan pepper to serve our health. The above article introduces in detail how Sichuan pepper can treat snoring.