How Black Pepper Can Help During Flu Season

In the height of cold and flu season and other scary viruses on the horizon, you need to be prepared with an army of natural remedies and immune enhancers.  Did you know one of them is right there in your kitchen cabinet and you probably use it every single day?  Salt’s best friend, black pepper, has powerful immune-enhancing properties that can help during flu season.

 

 

Black pepper is known to have powerful cold-fighting properties. Black pepper can enhance your immune system and help with a wide range of other ailments too.

Keep reading to discover how black pepper can help during flu season. You’ll also learn more about the other awesome health benefits this powerful spice can deliver.

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What is Black Pepper?

Peppercorns are the fruit of a flowering vine.  Black peppercorns are dried, unripe fruits that have been cooked.

How Can Black Pepper Help During Flu Season?

Black pepper contains a high level of anti-inflammatory, as well as antibacterial properties.  When you are trying to prevent or are fighting a cold or flu, you need all the anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial help you can get.

Regular consumption of black pepper can help to fight off infections and boost the immune system. It contains an especially high amount of Vitamin C,  a long time trusted remedy in the treatment of colds.

Black pepper can help to alleviate the most common symptom of colds and flu, chest congestion.

Black pepper stimulates digestion.  Since all diseases begin in the gut, it is important to have a strong digestive system.  When you have strong digestion, you have more energy and resources to build up your immune system.

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How to Use Black Pepper During Flu Season

Now you know the health benefits of black pepper and how it can help during flu season, let’s learn how to use it.

There are lots of ways you can use this common kitchen spice to prevent and help to treat a cold.

If you’re already fighting a cold, you could try an old remedy that involves mixing black pepper with raw honey. This is especially helpful for suppressing a cough and it’s been used in Indian medicine for centuries. Crush up the peppercorns and mix it with a little raw honey for maximum benefits.  Crush up your peppercorns in style with this mortar and pestle.  Raw honey also has numerous health benefits, including cough suppression.

Another way of using black pepper to combat colds is to add half a teaspoon to a cupful of warm water. Add in some ground tulsi leaves and half a teaspoon of chopped ginger. If you don’t like the taste, add a spoonful of raw honey, which will add even more health benefits.

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Try Black Pepper Essential Oil

Black pepper essential oil will enhance your immunity and help keep you warm.

Add a drop to warm soup to improve the flavor, enhance immunity, stimulate digestion, and boost your anti-oxidants.  You already know chicken soup is good for colds and flu, now you can ramp it up with a drop of black pepper essential oil.  Or try this healthy, hearty minestrone soup.

Use diluted black pepper on the bottom of your feet for a warming sensation.

Use diluted and rub on your chest to help open up your airways.

Potential Side Effects

When using black pepper in cooking, there aren’t any side effects. However, if you’ll be taking black pepper supplements, you’ll want to stick to ones with a strength of 5mg to 20mg.

If you take higher strength supplements, side effects can include:

• Burning sensation in the throat
• High absorption of medication

These are the only two potential side effects you’ll need to worry about. However, they only occur when you’re taking a very high daily dosage of black pepper.

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Other Benefits of Black Pepper

As well as helping to fight off colds and flu, black pepper can also potentially help with other ailments such as:

• Arthritis inflammation
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• High blood sugar
• Poor gut health

Something as simple as grinding black pepper on your daily meals can help prevent colds and flu.  How awesome is that?!

If you do come down with a cold or flu, you can ramp up the benefits by using a more potent black pepper supplement to enhance immunity and relieve symptoms.

The health benefits of black pepper are spectacular. Considering it’s one of the cheapest and easiest spices to use, it makes sense to start using it to boost your immune system. This is just one of many common spices that can provide great health benefits.  Most of Mother Nature’s gifts offering amazing health benefits.

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Using black pepper is only one small way to naturally enhance immunity and prevent colds and flu.  If you want to learn more ways Mother Nature can support you, download my free e-book, The Ultimate Guide to Natural Immunity.