the Anywhere Clinic

I can't find any information on the properties of fennel leaves or stalks, but pepper, like we thought, is spicy hot, goes into stomach/large intestine (i.e. yangming) meridians, and seems mostly good for warming 'cold heart & abdomen' i.e. epigastric symptoms (e.g., vomiting clear fluid, undigested food in stools, nausea & hiccups with inability to eat). Patient may have "limbs cold as ice." Black pepper (like green/white tea) is the raw unripened least processed form....