Black Pepper as a Herbal Remedy For Loss Of Appetite
Black Pepper is mostly grown in Malabar in South India. It is green when it is fresh but it dries gradually and its color turns black. For those who cannot tolerate the red hot chilly, black pepper is ideal. It is good for the constitution and it stimulates mental activity. Not only the taste, it has unique medicinal qualities also. The black pepper powder is sprinkled over salad and cut fruits. It cures your cold and cough.
For those with hyper acidity, take the powder of pepper along with molasses or brown sugar, with the addition of honey. In case of biliousness, morning sickness or travel sickness, take a lemon, cut it into two pieces, sprinkle a little pepper powder and chew into the juice. The results will be immediate. The allergic skin infections find a certain cure, if you take 5 to 8 grains of pepper with clarified butter or honey twice a day- in the morning and evening. When you apply it locally on the skin with the above two ingredients, urticaria subsides.
Some day if you start sneezing quite frequently, don’t get upset by thinking it to be a disease. Don’t rush to take antibiotics to control it at once. Sneezing is one of the natural functions of the human constitution, and if you suppress it, it has to find its outlet, may be in the form of skin-eruptions. Let the body expel the impurities in its natural ways and sneezing is one of them.
In controlling malaria, black pepper plays a dominant role. The powder of black pepper, the juice off holy basil and the juice of ginger are mixed in honey and this is accepted as the wonder cure for the disease.
Do you wish to put on weight? Are you thin and lean? Take 10 pieces of black pepper early in the morning on empty stomach. Chew them and drink a glass of water. Continue this practice for two months and see the results!
Know that red chilly and black pepper are quite different in quality. Due to its pungent nature black pepper gives a peculiar taste as well.
You can have a wonderful herbal tea made. It is also known as ‘Herbal Spice Tea’ by powdering the following items in equal quantity.
Black pepper
Cinnamon
Cardamom
Cloves
Pepper
Put a pinch of it in your tea or milk. This powder taken regularly will keep you out of infections. The resistance power of he body to fight diseases increases.