History of Pepper

Re:History of Pepper by cosmotic on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:40PM (#29940110)

"Known Medicinal Uses: Pepper is an important ingredient in Ayurvedic, Chinese, Unani"

Those are not medicinal uses.

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Re:History of Pepper by news_to_me on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:01PM (#29941055)

They are, they’re just not mainstream medicine.

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Re:History of Pepper by cosmotic on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:59PM (#29941683)

If we allow for 'not mainstream medicine', why then are they stopping at those three? Why not include the spells and potions that might include pepper? Why not the treatments you or I could just make up on the spot in a work of fiction? If we expand the definition of medicine to include nonsense, the term would lose all meaning. As a society we demand medicine be 'things proven to work' and all those things they list are not part of that set; they have not been proven to work, and thus not included in 'medicine'. If they were in fact proven to work, they would simply be part of mainstream medicine.

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Re:History of Pepper by orgels_revenge on Saturday January 15, 2022 @06:32PM (#29951583)

Piperine, an extract from black pepper, is known to increase absorption of nutrients in the gut. A study on PubMed shows increases of curcumin absorption by 2000% after taking piperine. Personally, I have noticed great effects when I take piperine in combination with other compounds. I got here from studying ancient Chinese medicine.

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Re:History of Pepper by drsnow on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:50PM (#29941605)

Mainstream in this case meaning legitimate.

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