Black Pepper- Many Uses You Never Knew !
Black pepper, just like table salt, has an
unexpected list of alternative uses that extend beyond seasoning your
meals. In fact, as you're about to find out, there's a lot more to black
pepper than meets the eye. Let's take a look:
1. Keep colors bright
After your favorite bright-red top has been worn and washed a couple of
times, its color will start to fade. However, pepper can be used to help
your fabrics retain their bright color and prevent them from running
too. Just add a teaspoon of pepper to the wash load.
2. Keep your plants bug free
Pepper can also be used as a natural pest control in the garden - after
all, there's nothing more frustrating than a swarm of bugs nibbling at
your plants. To keep bugs at bay, mix black pepper with flour and
sprinkle around the soil.
3. It will keep deer away too
While deer may enjoy dining on a freshly budding garden, spraying your
plants and bushes with a cayenne pepper and water mixture will have them
dining elsewhere.
4. Keep ants out of the kitchen
Though pepper's uses in the garden are bountiful, this powerful
ingredient can be used to keep ants away inside the home as well. The
ants in your kitchen are actually looking for sugar, so keep them at bay
by sprinkling cayenne pepper in spots along the backs of your counter
tops and on your baseboards.
5. Keep rodents from chewing on cable wires
Keep rodents away from your cable wires by spreading some black pepper
on them.
6. Seal a leaking radiator in your car
Buy yourself some time before taking your car to the repair shop. Pour a
spice-rack sized container of black pepper into the radiator. This will
flow into the split or pinhole, plugging the leak.
7. Stop a minor cut from bleeding
Pepper may be applied to the body too. Prior to doing so, thoroughly
rinse the cut and dab the bleeding area with a clean, sterile cloth or
paper towel. Then, sprinkle some ground black pepper on the cut and
secure it with a bandage. This remedy will only work on small cuts. For
deep cuts, with heavy bleeding, seek professional medical attention.
8. Use pepper essential oil to alleviate
arthritis pain
To soothe the pain, create your own home-made warming massage by
combining the following oils together: 1 drop of almond oil, 2 drops
pepper, 1 drop ginger and 2 drops lavender.
9. Use pepper to stop a migraine in its tracks
If you feel the beginning of a migraine coming on, add a 1/4 to 1/2 a
teaspoon of cayenne pepper to half a glass of water. If the migraine
doesn't subside 30 minutes later, drink another glass.
10. Use pepper to help your liver detoxify
Combine the following ingredients and drink up each morning: 1 lemon,
squeezed, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1 cup filtered water, 1 teaspoon
maple syrup.
11. To keep your cholesterol low -
Add 1/4
teaspoon of black pepper to a glass of buttermilk. Mix in some finely
cut onion and drink.
12. To lose weight -
Mix 1/4 teaspoon of ground black pepper, one glass
of water, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and one of honey. Stir well and
drink daily.
13. To reduce fever -
Take 7 or 8 leaves of basil and 3 or 4 grains of
black pepper and chew them together.
14. To relieve a dry cough -
Grind 5 or 6
seeds of black pepper and mix with natural honey. Swallow a spoon of
this mix daily until relief is achieved.
15. To relieve asthma attacks -
Boil 8 to 10 grains of pepper, 2 clove
buds and 10 to 15 basil leaves in water. Let the brew sit for about 15
minutes, strain it and add 2 spoons of honey.
Tip: Drink with milk!
16. Treating a sore throat -
Squeeze some lemon juice, add a bit of salt
and ground black pepper - and gargle.
17. To treat a cold -
Make some tea and add 2 or 3 grains of ground black
pepper, a piece of ginger and basil leaves.
18. To treat a chronic cold -
Consume ground
black pepper with dates.
19. To open a blocked up nose -
Mix equal amounts of black pepper,
cinnamon, cumin and cardamom seeds. Grind to a thin powder and smell or
inhale the mixture. This will cause healthy sneezing and will open the
nose ducts.
20. To relieve any kind of cough -
Grind some black pepper and add
sugar. Consume the mix with clarified butter.
21. To ease a heavy cough -
add 2 or 3 grains of black pepper to a glass
of boiling hot milk, wait for it to cool a bit and then drink.
22. Treating a toothache -
Mix ground black pepper with clove oil. Smear
the ointment on the afflicted area.
23. To treat indigestion -
Mix some black pepper with ginger juice and
sip after every meal.
24. Relieve nausea -
Mix black pepper and water in a glass, add some
fresh lemon juice, mix and drink slowly.
25. Treating skin conditions -
Prepare an ointment from ground black
pepper and refined butter. Apply to skin conditions such as allergy
rash, Eczema and scabies.
26. To fight baldness -
Make a thick paste from black pepper and lemon
seeds. Apply it daily to balding areas about 10 minutes before
showering. The solution should help revitalize hair growth.
27. To deal with hemorrhoids -
Grind together 20 grams of black pepper,
10 grams of cumin and 15 grams of sugar. Mix in water and drink morning
and evening, every day.
28. To stop bleeding -
the bleeding wound with ground black
pepper. Bandage with a paper towel and tighten with sellotape (scotch
tape). Wait 10 minutes and the bleeding will stop.
29. To stop hiccups -
Hold a small plate with black pepper to your nose,
inhale strongly a few times and the hiccups will cease.