Black Pepper for Colds, Flu and Weight Loss
Black Pepper for Colds, Flu and Weight Loss
November brings the damp and chilly feelings, l so I have been grinding extra fresh black pepper daily and putting it into herbal teas (or my morning Superfood Plus) for extra warmth. It’s a cheap and useful guard against infections and being hot and pungent, its properties will warm you up. Equally it will help disperse sore throats, blocked breathing and other aspects of cold, flu and attendant fever. It’s also known that the ‘piperine’ in black pepper increases the bioavailability of nutrients in general, (this fact has been well publicized in connection with turmeric and its ‘curcumin’).
Either buy pre-ground organic pepper or better still freshly grind your own each time. Brave the crunch and drink it down without sieving it (or add to Superfood Plus and you will hardly notice the crunch). You will be glowing with health and circulation for hours!
If adding to food, pop it in at the end because-and this is important-cooked black pepper irritates the gut and yet freshly prepared raw, heals gut inflammation, stops intestinal gas and is an anti-acid.
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