This drink can also boost metabolism, leading to improved digestion and increased calorie burning, which helps promote weight loss.
Using Familiar Spices at Home to Create a Health-Boosting Drink
On cold days, you can use a beneficial drink for immunity made from black pepper.
How to Make Black Pepper Water: Simply add 2 to 3 teaspoons of black pepper to hot water or boiling water. Wait until the water changes color, then strain and drink while warm. You can also add a pinch of salt and rose petals for extra flavor.
Black pepper contains a lot of piperine, which enhances metabolism in the body.
According to herbalist Vu Quoc Trung (Vietnamese Traditional Medicine Association), black pepper is a spice that helps treat colds, induces sweating, dispels external cold, and warms the stomach to increase internal warmth. In Traditional Medicine, black pepper is also known as huo jiao, which is spicy, hot, and affects the spleen, stomach, lungs, and large intestine.
Research from the National Academy of Sciences (USA) indicates that black pepper contains a significant amount of piperine, which boosts metabolism in the body and helps diabetic patients avoid some dangerous complications. Black pepper water is a beneficial drink for people with diabetes. Black pepper is rich in antioxidants and has good antibacterial properties, which can help stabilize blood sugar levels and effectively prevent diabetes.
Black pepper water can also boost metabolism, leading to improved digestion and increased calorie burning, which helps promote weight loss.
According to Traditional Medicine experts, adding a bit of black pepper to hot milk or turmeric milk, or warm water, helps treat colds by keeping the body warm. It also effectively prevents certain infectious diseases.
Black Pepper – An Ingredient in Effective Remedies
- Joint Pain: Use black pepper soaked in alcohol with star anise and alum. Then, massage the mixture onto the painful joints to help reduce pain quickly.
- Phlegm Relief: Mix a bit of black pepper powder into hot water and sip like tea until finished.
- Stomach Cold Causing Nausea: Use 30g of black pepper soaked in 1 liter of alcohol. Then take it out to use, consuming 1-2 small cups, equivalent to 5-6 teaspoons.
- Treating Cold-related Cough and Stomach Cold: Crush 30 black peppercorns, add 2g of musk, and 200ml of alcohol, then boil in a clay pot until 100ml remains and drink hot.
- Fever: Add a few black peppercorns and a spoonful of sugar into a bowl, mix with water, and drink to help reduce fever.
In Traditional Medicine, black pepper is also known as huo jiao, which is spicy, hot, and affects the spleen, stomach, lungs, and large intestine.
Precautions When Using Black Pepper Water
Moderation is key when consuming black pepper and black pepper water, as excessive intake can cause boils, hemorrhoids, and harm the internal organs and eyesight. If you experience adverse reactions from overconsumption, cook mung beans to detoxify.
Pregnant women and those with internal heat conditions should avoid using it.
If you plan to use it for an extended period as a medicinal remedy, consult a doctor before starting.
