Black pepper

The benefits and harms, reproduction and care, recipes of black pepper

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Botanical characteristics of black pepper

Black pepper is a perennial plant with a flexible and delicate stem. The leaves are alternate, leathery, sometimes ovate and cordate. The flowers are small, inconspicuous, white or gray-yellow color. Flowers collected in small florets. The fruit of pepper is a drupe globular shape of seed. Initially the drupe is green color and as they Mature it becomes red. If the pepper to dry, it will become black color.

Pepper flowering begins in April and lasts until late may. The fruits ripen from July to August. The homeland of the pepper is thought to be India, but it is successfully cultivated in many countries, such as Brazil, Sri Lanka, Russia, the island of Java.

Reproduction of black pepper

Black pepper is propagated in different ways:
– seeds;
– cuttings;
– layering;
– plots.

Seeds should be sown in spring in a soil composed of sand and leaf soil. When you see the seedlings, they need to sit down singly in small pots with turf, leaf soil content of humus and sand. Plants should be watered abundantly, not keep in a Sunny spot. Water for irrigation should not be cold.

For grafting is only suitable March. For this you need to plant the cuttings in the sand. The cuttings should be watered regularly. When the cuttings are rooted, they are planted in individual pots.

Layering involves prigibanie side shoots to the ground, pinning them with wooden pins. When the cuttings are rooted, they should be cut and planted in pots with a sod of earth mixed with sand.

Care black pepper

Pepper grows well on the Windows of the East and West directions. All spring and summer, the peppers should be watered abundantly. It is impossible to prevent waterlogging and overdrying of soil, as both will only hurt the plant.

Peppers need high humidity. If it is low, it will lead to the fact that the plant will start to hurt. Twice per day the plant should be sprayed with soft and already separated by water. The pot must be placed on the pallet, which has a wet expanded clay or peat.

Spring and summer is the time for fertilizing plants. For this purpose perfect fertilizer. Fertilizing should be done more than 1 time in 14 days. In winter, the pepper should be kept in a light place, as the plant is dormant.

Pepper normally tolerate transplanting. Young plants are transplanted every year, and not more than once in 2 years. For the transplant to mix the sod,leafy soil with peat, sand and compost in equal proportions. It is better to transplant the pots were made out of plastic, with the content at the bottom of the drainage.

Useful properties of black pepper

In peppers contain vitamins E, C, glycosides, essential oils and starch – all of these substances have a positive effect on the human body. Due to the presence of these components is the black pepper used as a tool that strengthens the nervous system, muscle mass, and improves digestion. In addition, pepper can thin the blood.

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Pepper stimulates appetite and increases saliva . Black pepper cleanses the body and lymph and provides protivoyadie action.

The plant is used as a means to improve memory, dissipative gases, strengthens the liver and stomach. Black pepper has diuretic properties.

The use of black pepper

Black pepper is used as a bactericidal, expectorant and pain reliever. The plant has medicinal property in the treatment of cough, respiratory diseases. In folk medicine, black pepper is often used to treat hemorrhoids, stomach diseases, fever. A decoction of black pepper is used when the snake bites or Scorpion. Black pepper can get rid of chest pain.

Pepper tincture for pain in the back. For its preparation should take 5 ripe peppers and dry them. Then grind them and pour a glass of vodka. Leave in a dark place to infuse for 5 days. Don't forget every day shake the tincture. When the tincture is ready, add 1 teaspoon of tincture of iodine and leave for another 7 days to infuse, then there also add 1 teaspoon of salt stone and leave one day to infuse. Treated in this tool need 3 days, keeping the finished tincture in a cool place.

Pepper in the cold. Take the black pepper and grind it into a powder. Now 100 grams of butter, put on fire for 15 minutes. Then take water and put a drop of oil if it begins to crackle, then it is time to remove from heat and it's ready. Strain the finished oil and adding a powder of pepper, medium instilled into the nose in a warm state.

Pepper angina, bronchitis. Take 1 teaspoon of crushedblack pepper and mix it with a glass of honey. Take this drug 1 teaspoon three times a day. The same drug can help if your period is delayed.

Black pepper in kidney stones. Take black grapes and pull out the bone in place which place a peas of black pepper. Every day take one such raisins for 7 days. Thanks to this cure kidney stones will begin to fragmentation and excreted in the urine from the body.

Pepper for sciatica. To prepare this medicine is not only easy but also fast. Take 1 tablespoon of crushed peppercorns and mix it with 200 ml of olive oil. Put all on the fire for 10 minutes. After straining the cure can be used. This oil is used for rubbing the sore spots. The same drug is used in the ache, paralysis and the degenerative disc disease.

Pepper for hair. Take crushed black pepper and salt in equal amounts and mix. Add to this onion juice to form a slurry. The finished slurry is rubbed into the hair, leave for half an hour. After this time the slurry was wash away from his head. The result of applying such a slurry pepper hair stop break down and are less likely to fall out.

The harm of pepper

Pepper harmful to people who have diseases of the urinary tract. Many people after eating black pepper has a headache. Black pepper dries the Breasts and makes the tissue of the throat and lungs stronger. Due to excessive consumption of black pepper can cause irritation and over-stimulation. Preparations of black pepper can not be applied strictly to people who suffer from stomach ulcers, allergies and anemia.