This product is the nearly mature fruit or mature fruit of the evergreen vine Pepper Fruit of the Pepper Fruit family. Mainly produced in Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places. From late autumn to the following spring, harvest the fruit when it is dark green, and dry it in the sun to become a black Pepper Fruit; harvest it when the fruit turns red, soak it in water, wipe off the pulp, and dry it in the sun to become a white Pepper Fruit. Use raw, break into pieces when used.

[Property]

acrid, hot. act on stomach and large intestine channels.

[Efficacy]

warming the middle, lowering qi and eliminating phlegm.

1. Used for stomach cold, abdominal cold pain, vomiting, diarrhea. To treat stomach cold, epigastric pain and vomiting, it can be used alone, ground into powder and stewed in pork belly, or used in combination with Lesser Galangal Rhizome and Pipi root. To treat diarrhea due to deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach, it can be used with Evodia Fruit and White Atractylodes Rhizome; it can also be ground into powder and applied to the navel.
2. For epilepsy. It is mainly used to treat phlegm, depression, and seven orifices of epilepsy with excessive phlegm. It can be divided into equal parts with the peppercorns, or as mentioned in Zhouzhou Fang, put the Pepper Fruit in the radish, dry it in the shade, grind it into powder and take it.
3. In addition, as a condiment, it has the effect of appetizing food.

[Documentation]

1. Xinxiu Bencao: "Mainly lowering qi, warming the middle, removing phlegm, and removing zang-fu organs apoplexy cold."
2. Bencao Gangmu: " Warms the intestines and stomach, removes cold-dampness, nausea, bloating, cold accumulation, yin toxin, and toothache due to heat."

[Usage and Dosage]

2 to 4 grams. Decoct and take. Grind into powder and swallow 0.5~1g each time. Appropriate amount for external use.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains Pepper Fruit base, Pepper Fruit fatty base, Pepper Fruit neobase and volatile oil.

This product has the effect of expelling wind and strengthening the stomach when taken orally. The Pepper Fruit base contained has significant anticonvulsant and sedative effects. Taking Pepper Fruit internally can dilate blood vessels in the skin and produce a feeling of warmth.