Piper nigrum L.
Family: Piperaceae
- Arabic: فلفل أسود
- Armenian: Պղպեղ
- Assamese: Jaluk
- Azerbaijani: İstiot
- Bengali: Golmarich গোল মরিচ
- Bulgarian: Пипер черен, Черен пипер
- Burmese: Nayukon ငရုတ်ကောင်းပင်
- Chinese: 胡椒
- Croatian: Biber
- Czech: Pepř
- Danish: Peber
- Dutch: zwarte en witte peper
- Esperanto: Pipro
- Estonian: Pipar
- Finnish: Pippuri
- French: Poivre
- Galician: Pementa
- Georgian: პილპილი
- German: Pfeffer
- Gujarati: Mari કાળા મરી
- Hebrew: פלפל
- Hindi: kalimirch: काली मिर्च
- Hungarian: Bors
- Icelandic: Pipar
- Indonesian: Merica
- Italian: Pepe
- Japanese: 胡椒
- Kannada: ಮೆಣಸು, ಕರಿಮೆಣಸು karimanasu
- Kazakh: Бұрыш
- Khmer: Mrech
- Korean: 블랙 페퍼
- Lao: Mak phik noi
- Latvian: Pipari
- Lithuanian: Pipirai
- Malay: Lada
- Malayalam: Mulagu കുരുമുളക്
- Marathi: मिरे
- Oriya: Gola maricha
- Polish: Pieprz
- Portuguese: pimenta
- Russian: Перец
- Sanskrit: maricham मरीचम्
- Sinhalese: Miris
- Slovak: Peprovník
- Spanish: Pimienta nigra
- Swahili: Pilipili
- Swedish: Peppar
- Tagalog: Paminta
- Tamil: மிளகு
- Telugu: మిరియాలు miriyalu
- Thai: พริกไท
- Tibetan: Fowarilbu
- Turkish: Biber
- Ukrainian: Perets
- Vietnamese: Cây tiêu
- Yiddish: Fefer
The medicinal part of the black pepper plant are the berries that are usually dried. The plant increases the production of saliva and has antimicrobial effects. Folk medicine has used black pepper to treat digestive problems, scabies, and stomach disorders. Useful for menstrual headaches. [African American Slave Medicine : Herbal and Non-herbal Treatments]
Ayurvedic uses: Swasa, krimiroga, tvak roga, sula [API, Vol-1 Part-3]
A warm carminative stimulant, producing, when taken into the system, general arterial excitement, but acting with greater proportional energy upon the surfaces with which it is brought more immediately into contact. It is useful in debility of the stomach, and throughout the entire extent of the digestive system exerts a pure stimulant action, and is useful also in fevers where the indications for a stimulant impression exist. May be given in substance or in infusion, the former being the mode of exhibition generally in favour. It is of great value in fevers, more especially as an adjuvant to more active febrifugent agents, the action of which is materially increased by its presence. In those cases of debility of the stomach and digestive apparatus, as in the case of drunkards, where the ordinary means fail to produce the desired impression, it is exhibited with success. It is also of certain action where a speedy diaphoresis is required, producing a copious amount of perspiration in very short time; of course, for this purpose, it will be preferred in the warm infusion for administration. It is useful in piles and for constipation of the bowels; for either of these purposes it is most frequently given in the form of an electuary. [Botanic Pharmacopoeia]
Black pepper is a hot herb used traditionally for treating colds, congestion, sore throat, sinusitis, and fever. Like most hot herbs, it is also a powerful digestion stimulant. It is also used to treat chronic coldness, temporary mild paralysis (such as Bell’s Palsy syndrome), and for general stimulation of the Fire element. [A Thai Herbal: Traditional Recipes for Health and Harmony]
Used in Ayurveda, Unani and Sidha. Roots and fruits of Deeringia amaranthoides pounded with roots of Piper nigrum and given in stomach pain. Seed powder mixed with water given orally to cure malaria and fevers. Dried unripe fruit rubefacient, carminative, diaphoretic, stimulant, postpartum remedy, stomachic, treat diarrhea, rheumatic pains, digestion, asthma, chronic bronchitis, scabies, sores, and poisons, especially food poisoning from meat; fruits crushed and taken for relief from cold, cough and fever; Mimosa pudica roots, Musa sapientum peel, Drymaria cordata leafy twigs and Piper nigrum seeds ground together and made into pills given orally to pregnant women to cause abortion; decoction of whole plant of Cyperus scariosus with Piper nigrum given to cure influenza, cough, cold, fevers. Fruits pesticide, insecticide, for fungal infection. Veterinary medicine, a mixture of leaves of Pergularia extensa, Piper nigrum seeds and Allium sativum juice put into eyes for any kind of disease in cattle. Ceremonial, ritual, ingredient of Patra pooja in different religious pooja ceremonies. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
Stimulant, carminative, diuretic, anticholerin, sialagogue, bechic, antiasthmatic. Used in fevers, dyspepsia, flatulence, indigestion, and as mucous membrane and gastro-intestinal stimulant. Externally—rubefacient and stimulant to the skin. Used as a gargle for sore throat. Used with ginger and Piper longum for viral hepatitis. [Indian Medicinal Plants An Illustrated Dictionary]
Therapeutic uses : The berries, well known for their stomachic, anodyne and antibacterial properties, are prescribed for treating dyspepsia, vomiting, diarrhoea and colic resulting from cold, The average daily dose is 1 to 3g in the form of a decoction, powder or pills. The powdered berries, applied topically, cure toothache. They can also be used as an insecticide against clothes moths. [Medicinal Plants in Viet Nam]
Promotions for digestion, urination and perspiration, gastrointestinal diseases, diarrhoea diseases, menstrual disorders, dizziness, for oral-hygiene and appetizing and for clear-vision. [Medicinal Plants of Myanmar]
Fruit: Dried or powdered berries are used to treat ailments of the urinogenital system; pulverised green berries are boiled and the liquid is drunk to relieve flatulence (wind); decoction of dried berries mixed with Justicia secunda and Zingiber officinale is used to treat menstrual pains. Seed: In Guyana, mixed with Allium cepa, Allium sativum and other plants, to cure Guinea worm infections. [Medicinal Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana) ]
Ayurvedic uses: Swasa, krimiroga, tvak roga, sula [API, Vol-1 Part-3]
A warm carminative stimulant, producing, when taken into the system, general arterial excitement, but acting with greater proportional energy upon the surfaces with which it is brought more immediately into contact. It is useful in debility of the stomach, and throughout the entire extent of the digestive system exerts a pure stimulant action, and is useful also in fevers where the indications for a stimulant impression exist. May be given in substance or in infusion, the former being the mode of exhibition generally in favour. It is of great value in fevers, more especially as an adjuvant to more active febrifugent agents, the action of which is materially increased by its presence. In those cases of debility of the stomach and digestive apparatus, as in the case of drunkards, where the ordinary means fail to produce the desired impression, it is exhibited with success. It is also of certain action where a speedy diaphoresis is required, producing a copious amount of perspiration in very short time; of course, for this purpose, it will be preferred in the warm infusion for administration. It is useful in piles and for constipation of the bowels; for either of these purposes it is most frequently given in the form of an electuary. [Botanic Pharmacopoeia]
Black pepper is a hot herb used traditionally for treating colds, congestion, sore throat, sinusitis, and fever. Like most hot herbs, it is also a powerful digestion stimulant. It is also used to treat chronic coldness, temporary mild paralysis (such as Bell’s Palsy syndrome), and for general stimulation of the Fire element. [A Thai Herbal: Traditional Recipes for Health and Harmony]
Used in Ayurveda, Unani and Sidha. Roots and fruits of Deeringia amaranthoides pounded with roots of Piper nigrum and given in stomach pain. Seed powder mixed with water given orally to cure malaria and fevers. Dried unripe fruit rubefacient, carminative, diaphoretic, stimulant, postpartum remedy, stomachic, treat diarrhea, rheumatic pains, digestion, asthma, chronic bronchitis, scabies, sores, and poisons, especially food poisoning from meat; fruits crushed and taken for relief from cold, cough and fever; Mimosa pudica roots, Musa sapientum peel, Drymaria cordata leafy twigs and Piper nigrum seeds ground together and made into pills given orally to pregnant women to cause abortion; decoction of whole plant of Cyperus scariosus with Piper nigrum given to cure influenza, cough, cold, fevers. Fruits pesticide, insecticide, for fungal infection. Veterinary medicine, a mixture of leaves of Pergularia extensa, Piper nigrum seeds and Allium sativum juice put into eyes for any kind of disease in cattle. Ceremonial, ritual, ingredient of Patra pooja in different religious pooja ceremonies. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
Stimulant, carminative, diuretic, anticholerin, sialagogue, bechic, antiasthmatic. Used in fevers, dyspepsia, flatulence, indigestion, and as mucous membrane and gastro-intestinal stimulant. Externally—rubefacient and stimulant to the skin. Used as a gargle for sore throat. Used with ginger and Piper longum for viral hepatitis. [Indian Medicinal Plants An Illustrated Dictionary]
Therapeutic uses : The berries, well known for their stomachic, anodyne and antibacterial properties, are prescribed for treating dyspepsia, vomiting, diarrhoea and colic resulting from cold, The average daily dose is 1 to 3g in the form of a decoction, powder or pills. The powdered berries, applied topically, cure toothache. They can also be used as an insecticide against clothes moths. [Medicinal Plants in Viet Nam]
Promotions for digestion, urination and perspiration, gastrointestinal diseases, diarrhoea diseases, menstrual disorders, dizziness, for oral-hygiene and appetizing and for clear-vision. [Medicinal Plants of Myanmar]
Fruit: Dried or powdered berries are used to treat ailments of the urinogenital system; pulverised green berries are boiled and the liquid is drunk to relieve flatulence (wind); decoction of dried berries mixed with Justicia secunda and Zingiber officinale is used to treat menstrual pains. Seed: In Guyana, mixed with Allium cepa, Allium sativum and other plants, to cure Guinea worm infections. [Medicinal Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana) ]
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