Introduction
Black pepper is known by various names such as - Mirch, Krishna, Kol, Kankol, Katuk, Kalimirch, Gol Mirch etc. Black pepper is used as a spice. Black pepper is mostly grown in Malabar province and Konkan. The first crop of black pepper is grown in August-September and the second in March-April. Black pepper is a vine. The vine of black pepper is 20 to 25 feet long. Its leaves are 3 to 7 inches long like betel leaves. Black pepper flowers are white in color. It flowers in summer season and fruits start forming in rainy season. Its fruits grow in bunches. In raw state, the color of the fruits is green and after ripening they turn red and after drying they become black. Black pepper is used to cure many types of diseases. Black pepper is more useful than red pepper because it is less irritating.
Properties
Black pepper is sharp and light, pungent and its juice is bitter in taste. It creates interest in food, enhances taste, removes phlegm, improves digestion and destroys Vata dosha (gas). It destroys insects, removes pain and cough. It is also beneficial for the heart.
Treatment of various diseases
1. Lice:
Mix 10 to 12 seeds of Sitaphal and 5 to 6 black peppers and grind them. Mix it with mustard oil and prepare a paste. Apply this paste on the roots of hair before sleeping at night and wash the hair in the morning. Using it like this for a few days will eliminate lice.
2. Headache:
Mix 3-4 grains of black pepper, 3 grams of ginger and 7-8 basil leaves and lightly crush them. Boil it in water and make tea and drink it. Drinking it like tea cures headache caused by cold.
In case of headache, grind black pepper and coriander with water and apply it on the forehead to get rid of headache immediately.
Grind black pepper, cloves and basil leaves with water and make a paste and apply it on the forehead to get quick relief from headache.
Grind black pepper powder with Bhaangre juice and smell it to get rid of headache.
The patient suffering from headache should grind black pepper and smell it or apply it on the head as a paste. This gives relief from headache.
Grind salt and black pepper together and mix it in onion juice to make a paste and apply this paste on the head. Applying this paste on the scalp cures the pain quickly. Eating 2 pinches of powdered black pepper and sugar cures half head ache.
A patient suffering from headache should grind black pepper, onion and salt together and make a paste and apply it on the head. This gives quick relief from pain. Smelling fine powder of black pepper filtered in a cloth also causes sneezing and cures headache.
3. Migraine (Migraine):
A patient suffering from migraine should chew and eat 10 grams of black pepper and drink 25 grams of Desi Ghee on top. This gives quick relief from migraine.
Grinding black pepper and burnt soil of stove together and smelling it cures half head ache.
A patient suffering from migraine (Migraine) should consume 10 black pepper and 10 grams of sugar candy powder with water in the morning and evening. This cures half head ache. A patient suffering from migraine should chew and eat 12 grams of black pepper and drink about 30 grams of pure ghee on top of it. This cures half head ache.
4. Brain weakness or loss of memory:
If due to weak brain, one is not able to understand anything quickly or there is a lot of mental trouble, then mix black pepper and sugar candy in equal quantity and grind it and consume it 3 times a day with a cup of milk. By consuming this, brain weakness is removed and the brain becomes sharp.
By grinding 8 black peppers and mixing it with about 30 grams of butter and sugar and licking it, brain weakness is removed. Memory power increases by its use.
5. Mental insanity (madness):
Grind 12 black peppers and 3 grams of Brahmi leaf and mix it in half a glass of water, filter it and drink it twice a day. This is very beneficial in mental insanity.
For a patient suffering from mental insanity, use black pepper, white mustard, small peepal, turmeric, barohaldi, asafoetida, manjith and seeds of Siras. Take all these medicines in equal quantity and grind them to make powder. Grind this powder in goat's urine and smell it and apply it in the eyes to cure madness and insanity.
Take black pepper, dry ginger, peepal, roasted asafoetida, Bach and rock salt in the quantity of 5-5 grams and grind them to make powder. Grind this prepared powder in cow's urine and apply it in the eyes to cure madness or insanity.
Grind about 1 gram black pepper and 10 grams small Chandad (Chandrabhaga) and give it to the patient in the quantity of half a gram each in the morning and at night with rose water to cure severe insanity.
Drinking black pepper powder mixed in ghee is beneficial in insanity caused due to gas. If a patient is suffering from insanity, then for his treatment, 25 grams of black pepper and 25 grams of dhatura seeds should be mixed and ground and mixed with water and 120-120 mg tablets should be made. By giving 1 tablet of these with butter daily, insanity is cured.
6. Poor vision:
If the eyesight has become poor, then mix black pepper, ghee and sugar candy in equal quantity and eat 2-2 teaspoons every morning and evening. Its consumption improves eyesight.
7. Night blindness (not being able to see at night):
Grind black pepper with curd and make a fine paste and apply it on the eyes of the patient suffering from this disease. It provides relief in night blindness.
Night blindness is cured by rubbing black pepper in honey and applying it like kajal in the eyes in the morning and evening.
Mixing black pepper, ghee and sugar together and consuming it cures night blindness and also provides relief in other eye diseases.
8. Hoarseness or hoarseness of voice:
If the throat is hoarse, then mix ground black pepper and ghee and drink it while eating. Its consumption clears the throat and also cures other diseases.
10 grams of black pepper, 10 grams of liquorice and 20 grams of sugar candy. Grind all these and make a powder. Eat a pinch of this powder mixed with honey in the morning and evening. Its consumption clears the throat and makes the voice melodious.
9. Mouth ulcers:
Mixing raisins and black pepper and chewing and sucking them cures mouth ulcers. Sucking it 3-4 times cures mouth ulcers.
Mixing 15 grams of black pepper and 30 grams of raisins and chewing them cures mouth ulcers and wounds.
10. Gum swelling:
Make a decoction of black pepper and gargle with it to cure gum swelling.
11. Skin diseases:
Mixing black pepper powder in ghee and applying it cures skin diseases. Using this paste on boils, ringworm, itching, itching and eczema etc. is also beneficial.
Black pepper powder should be mixed with coconut oil and applied on dry skin. This removes dryness of the skin.
12. Worms in the stomach:
Drinking 4 to 6 black pepper powder with a glass of buttermilk at night before sleeping eliminates stomach worms.
13. Liver disease:
Cut a lemon in the middle and make it into two pieces and then divide one of its pieces into 4 parts without cutting it. Now put black pepper powder in one part, dry ginger powder in the second, sugar candy or sugar in the third and fourth and keep it in a plate at night and cover it. In the morning, heat it on a pan and suck it, some liver diseases are cured. Its use strengthens the digestive power and also increases appetite.
14. Acne:
Grind 20 black peppercorns with rose water and apply it on the face before sleeping at night and clean the face with warm water in the morning. This clears the pimples, acne, wrinkles etc. of the face and makes the face shine.
15. Hives:
When hives occur, grind 10 black peppers and make powder. Mix this powder in half a teaspoon of ghee and drink it and massage the body with it. This cures hives.
16. Loss of appetite:
Mixing a pinch of black pepper powder in lemon sherbet and drinking it increases appetite. It should be consumed half an hour before eating.
17. Hysteria:
A woman suffering from hysteria should mix 1 gram black pepper and 3 grams sweet bach in sour curd and eat it at least 3 times a day on an empty stomach. This cures hysteria.
18. Eyelid boil:
If there is a painful boil on the eyelashes, grind black pepper in water and apply it. This cures the boil on the eyelids by ripening and bursting. Make a paste of it and apply it on the swollen area to remove the swelling.
19. Chronic cold:
Consume 2 grams of black pepper with jaggery and curd. This cures sinus disease.
20. Arthritis (Rheumatism):
A patient of arthritis should massage with oil obtained from black pepper. This provides relief in arthritis (rheumatism). Massaging arthritis or joints with black pepper oil provides relief from pain.
21. Nausea:
If a patient is feeling nauseous, he should chew black pepper. This provides relief in nausea.
