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Black and red pepper with a cold with vodka and honey: does it help and reviews
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Hot pepper is not only a culinary additive, it is also a common ingredient, which is often included in the list of constituents of alternative medicine recipes. Pepper has many useful and healing abilities: it is used to prevent and treat illnesses. Pepper for colds is especially helpful - it is an indispensable assistant in curing viral and microbial infections. In addition, such a medicine is almost always at hand, as pepper is in every kitchen.
Indications for use
One of the most popular pepper preparations is pepper plaster, its use is quite extensive: the plaster is used for cold and respiratory diseases, with closed injuries, with muscle, joint and lumbar pain.
Hot peppers are also used locally in the form of rubbing: this procedure warms and activates the local blood circulation.
In eastern doctors heap pancilic thorax in viral infections. In this way they achieve a diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory and expectorant action.
With the flu, many people recommend using pepper in a mixture with honey and drink it with hot tea.
Peas peppers are swallowed whole to optimize metabolic processes, to prevent atherosclerotic changes inside the vessels, for early recovery and getting rid of cough, sore throat and ARVI.
Few know, but red pepper contains a considerable amount of vitamins - in particular, C and P. Thanks to vitamins, pepper enhances blood circulation, cleanses and strengthens the vascular walls, normalizes the cholesterol content in the bloodstream. Retinol, present in pepper, has a positive effect on vision and the musculoskeletal system.
Hot pepper for a cold is not the only application of it. It is proved that the regular use of pepper inhibits the reproduction of tumor cells - especially in cancerous processes that affect the reproductive system.
Among other things, pepper is used in cosmetics and dietology. Pepper tinctures are often present in the formulations of strengthening and warming ointments, regenerating toothpastes. They use pepper and as a stimulant of metabolic processes, which is especially important for those who are trying to lose weight.
Recipes with pepper for colds
Alternative healers can offer a lot of various recipes for colds, which include a component such as pepper. For example:
- Infuse capsicum on medical alcohol in the proportion of 1:10. After a week, the tincture is filtered. With a cold, you can use it as follows: rub your feet with tincture, put on warm socks and go to bed. By morning, the cold lets go.
- The above tincture can be consumed and inside, previously diluted with water: 10 minutes before eating 30 drops of tincture is bred in 100 ml of water.
- Tincture rubbing the chest, if the cold is accompanied by a cough.
- Mix 1 tsp. Of ground hot pepper with 200 g of lime honey. Use up to five times a day for 1 tbsp. L., until the signs of a cold catch will not disappear.
- Grind a dozen peppery pods in a blender, add 200 ml of vegetable oil and the same amount of kerosene. Withstand the received medicine for ten days in the heat. Then use for rubbing: rub the feet, chest, back, then put on warm clothes and go to bed.
Black pepper for colds
Black pepper is a well-known spice. In alternative medicine, it is used to improve appetite, to enhance the secretion of gastric juice, to correct low acidity, to relieve pain in the joints.
If you regularly eat black pepper, you can not only improve your health, but also get rid of excessive weight.
Pepper promotes the purification of the respiratory tract from mucus, prevents the development of oncology and inflammatory changes in tissues.
- If the cold is accompanied by bronchitis or pneumonia, alternative healers advise mixing 40 grams of ground pepper, 40 grams of ground coriander and 30 g of fine sea salt, add a little hot water (not boiling!) To a creamy state. The mixture is rubbed into the chest for the night, every evening.
- In each zest wrap one pea of black pepper. Eat a couple of these raisins 3 times a day for half an hour before meals.
- If the temperature rises greatly during a cold, then this recipe is suggested: 20 g of ground pepper is poured into 200 ml of vegetable oil, cooked on a small ring for half an hour, slightly mixing. The medicine is cooled and used for rubbing the chest and neck.
- Cold and flu are treated like this: mix 200 ml of kefir, chopped garlic head and 1 tsp. Ground pepper. Drink the mixture at once.
Red pepper for colds
Red pepper is also used in folk medicine for the treatment of colds. It is applied externally to achieve a warming effect, or is consumed inside.
- Take a piece of red pepper (about 1 cm) and send in 200 ml of warmed milk. Bring milk to a boil, then pepper is thrown away, and hot milk is drunk, immediately go to bed under a warm blanket.
- Mix the ground red pepper and honey 1: 1. Daily use of 1 tsp. Mixture three times a day.
- Shortly before going to sleep, pour the ground red pepper into cotton socks, put them on. On top of the extra put on another warm socks. They are removed only in the morning, and their feet are washed well with warm water.
- With a cold complicated by pneumonia or bronchitis, a recipe is practiced: in 200 ml of boiling milk put a pinch of dry ground ginger root, a pinch of red pepper and saffron. Mix, wrap in a handkerchief and insist no more than five minutes. The infusion is consumed after dinner immediately before going to bed.
Red pepper is useful to add to dishes - so many people manage to prevent the development of colds. However: if there are problems with the stomach or intestines, then in such cases, red pepper is contraindicated.
Honey with cold pepper
If the cold starts, then you can help yourself with the same pepper and honey. Such methods of treatment are widespread:
- Dilute in 200 ml of warm water a little ground pepper (on the tip of the knife) and one teaspoon of honey. The medicine is well mixed and drips 1-2 drops into each nasal passage. The same mixture can gargle.
- Honey with pepper can be taken inside: a little liquid honey mixed with ground pepper in a ratio of 1: 1. Use three times a day for 1 tsp. This medicine helps to calm dry cough and improve the condition of the patient with a cold.
Recipes and proportions of vodka with cold pepper
Not all people trust such a recipe for a cold, like vodka with pepper. Nevertheless, this method of treatment has long established itself as an effective and quick way to relieve the condition at the initial stages of the development of the common cold. The essence of the effectiveness of this "cocktail" is simple: vodka plays the role of an anesthetic and disinfectant, and pepper warms, stimulates immunity and speeds up blood circulation.
Vodka with pepper is only a basic recipe for a cold remedy. Additionally, other ingredients can be added.
Indications for the use of pepper with vodka are:
- sensation of aches in the body;
- congestion and itching in the nose;
- pain in the head;
- a sore throat;
- cough.
Especially popular are such recipes:
- Black pepper with vodka from cold:
To 50 ml of vodka add ¼ teaspoon of black pepper and the same amount of mustard powder, mix and immediately drink. Optimal use of such medicine at night.
In addition to the drug, you can add the juice of black radish.
- Vodka with honey and pepper for cold:
Crush three buds of cloves and one capsicum. Insist in hot water for one hour. Add 0.5 liters of vodka and 100 g of honey, insist for several hours, filtered and poured into a bottle. At the first signs of catarrhal disease take the medicine three times a day for 30-40 g immediately after meals.
- Vodka with red pepper for cold:
Finely chop several pods of red pepper, add to a glass container and pour 0.5 liters of vodka. Leave for 3-4 hours, sometimes shake. After the required time, add 2 tbsp. L. Paprika powder, leave for another hour. Filter and take 50 ml 1-2 times a day. This medication well eliminates sore throat.
- Cognac with pepper for cold:
Instead of vodka, you can use cognac. Mix 100 g cognac, ¼ tbsp. L. Ground pepper and ½ tsp. Cinnamon. Take twice a day for 50 grams, but not more than three consecutive days.
- Moonshine with pepper for cold:
The most "popular" way to treat colds is moonshine with pepper. Take 200 grams of moonshine, mixed with 1 tsp. Black pepper and ½ pod of red pepper, leave to stand overnight. Then filter and take 50 g twice a day.
For a change, there are several interesting recipes for vodka with cold pepper:
- Mix 50 grams of honey and vodka, add a slice of lemon, 1 tsp. Seeds of cumin and a pinch of ground ginger root. Warm the mixture in a water bath without boiling. Drink the mixture throughout the day.
- Pass through the meat grinder 200 g of aloe leaf, add 4 tbsp. L. Honey and the same amount of vodka, mix. Take 1 tbsp. L. Three times a day.
Vodka with cold pepper is contraindicated in women with pregnancy, children, patients with inflammatory and ulcerative diseases of the digestive tract, with liver diseases, diabetes mellitus.
Reviews
Judging by the reviews, pepper for colds does help, preventing further development of the disease. Especially relevant is the use of pepper when the cold catches up suddenly, when you do not have the necessary medicines at hand. In autumn and winter, a similar situation is not uncommon, because cold snap and high humidity are ideal conditions for the development of colds and viral infections. In addition, with the onset of cold weather, many people suffer from immunity.
However, pepper does not always help, but only with the first symptoms of a cold. If the disease has already passed 2-3 days, the pepper will not bring the expected result. Therefore, try to start treatment as early as possible.
- The hot pepper contains vitamins and antioxidants that support and strengthen weak immune defenses.
- In acute pepper is present substance capsaicin, which is considered a natural active antibacterial agent. By the way, the sharpness of pepper is one of the properties of capsaicin. This substance destroys the pathogenic microflora, speeding up the recovery.
- Pepper promotes the widening of the lumen of blood vessels, improves blood flow.
Pepper for a cold is an affordable and simple means that acts and helps no worse than any pharmacy medicine. Try it and you will see for yourself.
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