The world's most popular spice and
cheese, eggs, fish, game, lamb, pork, poultry, salad, sausages, soup, steaks,
tomatoes, veal. It is one of the most common spices added to cuisine and its
descendants.Black pepper has been used since antiquity for flavour and as a
medicine. Black pepper is the world's most traded spice. The spiciness of black
pepper is due to the chemical piperine. Like many eastern spices, pepper is
seasoning and a medicine. Long pepper, being stronger, was often the preferred
medication.
Medical uses
Black Pepper used to cure illness
such as constipation, diarrhea, earache, gangrene, heart disease, hernia,
hoarseness, indigestion, insect bites, insomnia, joint pain, liver problems,
lung disease, oral abscesses, tooth decay, and toothaches.Various sources
recommend pepper to treat eye problems, often by applying salves or poultices
made with pepper directly to the eye. There is no current medical evidence that
any of these treatments has any benefit; pepper applied directly to the eye
would be quite uncomfortable and possibly damaging. Black pepper is widely used
in traditional Indian medicine and as a home remedy for relief from sore throat, throat congestion, cough etc.
Other uses
Pepper known to cause sneezing. Some
sources say that piperine irritates the nostrils, causing the sneezing. Some
studies shown that piperine can increase absorption of selenium, vitamin B,
beta-carotene and curcumin.
Nervous system
Piperine is known as a central
nervous system depressant and has good anticonvulsant
and antimicrobial properties.
Dietary
Pepper contains small amounts of
safrole, a mildly carcinogenic compound. Eliminated from the diet of patients
having abdominal surgery and ulcers because of its irritating effect upon the
intestines.In extracts from black pepper have been found antioxidant properties and anti-carcinogenic
effects.
Pharmacology
Piperine present in black pepper
acts as a thermogenic compound. Piperine enhances the thermogenesis of lipid
and promotes energy metabolism in the body, increases the serotonin and
beta-endorphin production in the brain.
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