Pepper a liver stimulant and antitoxin

When the normal metabolic activity of the living tissues of the body are disturbed by wrong living, wrong eating, environmental changes (such as weather vicissitudes) or uncongenial surroundings, then tissue fluids and the blood tend to build up toxins within the body. These toxins, in their turn, further weaken the tissues, disturb their normal function and, in time, can cause their degeneration, creating a vicious circle of chronic disease and further build up of toxins.
Pepper breaks this vicious circle. Pepper is well known, from ancient times, both in eastern and western folk -medicine, as the leading remedy to build up tissue resistance to infection by bacteria and micro-fungi. In the ancient Siddha System of medicine which is historically older than Ayurveda, pepper is often incorporated in medical prescriptions and formulae as a preventive antitoxin to neutralize toxic effects of herbal or mineral ingredients .

While ginger predominantly acts on enzyme alimentation, pepper acts on the hepatic
system ( liver, bile ducts, gall-bladder ) stimulating hepatic function without damaging the liver, if used judiciously . It corrects errors in fat metabolism and prevents build up fatty material within the tisssues including the inner walls of arteries .

A pinch of pepper, mixed in water with a couple of teaspoonfuls of honey and the juice of half-a-lemon, partaken early in the morning, keeps one trim and healthy even in advancing age.

A pinch of pepper, mixed with ayurvedic bitters and partaken half-an-hour before meals, not only stimulates the appetite but also tones up the liver to perform it work well.

If the daily intake of fatty food ( especially deep- fried foods ) is reduced, the medicinal action of pepper is strengthened. Its daily use, then, will have the prolonged action of a life-giving elixir (rasaayana ).