A blogger gave advice on a social platform and said that his gums were severely swollen and painful. The specific method is to break an egg into a bowl, add some crushed pepper, rinse it with 100℃ water, and add a little salt to it for better taste.
A reporter interviewed Ma Yanxia, a resident physician in the Department of Stomatology at Nanjing Tongren Hospital. She said that in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, Zanthoxylum bungeanum pepper can indeed relieve local pain, but there is no mention of pepper or pepper powder.