Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) is one of nature’s goodies that deserves to transcend from the spice cabinet to the medicine cabinet. Often overlooked, black pepper has vast medical potential. Adding a little to your daily dietary routine will definitely spice up your health life.
Black pepper begins its wonders as soon as you shovel it in your gaping trap. Immediately upon ingestion, taste buds are stimulated and send a message to your stomach, increasing hydrochloric acid secretion. Hydrochloric acid is responsible for improving digestion. Hydrochloric acid is responsible for the digestion of many dietary proteins and other components of food. Many people on this rock are fat because they produce an insufficient amount of hydrochloric acid and food just sits in their gut, you know those people that look like they are wearing an inner tube, that‘s bad. When food just chills in your belly for a long time bacteria can build up and cause indigestion and heartburn. For those unfortunate individuals with sensitive digestive tracts ( although you shouldn‘t have any problems), try eating a starch or dairy product to coat your stomach first.
Black pepper is a carminative, which means that black pepper prevents the formation of intestinal gas. Forget the Bean-O. This beneficial effect is probably due to the production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach as well. It is full of manganese and has iron and other dietary fibers.
Black Pepper is a diaphoretic. It helps you sweat out all that nasty garbage you stuff in your body. It has also been known to aid in weight loss. The outer layer of peppercorn stimulates the breakdown of fat cells, which keeps you lean and give you energy to burn.
Black pepper is awesome for the digestive tract. It helps the body suck the most nutrients out of the food you eat.
Black Pepper is an antioxidant and one if natures best antiseptics. Black pepper actively works to destroy free radicals found within the blood stream and belly. Free radicals are nasty little oxygen derivatives that really screw you up. The antibacterial properties of this spice are arguably one of its most intriguing facets. The Doctor recommends putting black pepper in all of your external wounds (except on your peepee, or eyeballs). It will disinfect the wound, better than Bactine, and stimulates blood coagulation, and scab formation. So not only does black pepper disinfect the injury and seal the injury, but is helps the wound heal faster and lessens the chances of scares as well.
If you care about yourself, pepper up.