Pipali
- Botanical Name: Piper longum
- Family Name: Piperaceae
- Common Name: Long Pepper, Dried Catkins, Pippali, Pipal
- Part Used: Fruit
- Active Compounds: Fruits contain volatile oil, resin, piperine and a terpenoid substance
- Habitat and Botany: It is a slender aromatic climber with perennial woody roots occurring in the hotter parts of India western coasts, central Himalayas to Assam and lower hills of Bengal. This is one of the rarest spices in the west. From a cousin of the familiar peppercorn, these are two inch long bud heads made up of about one hundred tiny seeds, gray in color, and tightly bunched together. Used for its peppery-gingerish flavor in ancient times
Description
This climbing shrub is Indigenous to India and Sri Lanka. It is cultivated in other parts
Actions:
analgesic, anthelmintic, aphrodisiac, carminative, expectorant.
Uses :
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Abdominal tumors
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Colds
- Coughs
- Digestion
- Epilepsy
- Flatulence
- Gout
- Laryngitis
- Paralysis
- Rheumatic pain
- Sciatica
- Worms
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