PIPALA (Piper longum)
Pipala
Scientific name: Piper longum
Common name: long
pepper
Family: piperaceae
Habit: a slender
aromatic climber
Parts used: dried fruits
Chemical
constituents: It consists of alkaloids piperine,piplartine and
piplasterol(about 6%), 1% essential oil and pungent resin.
Uses:
-fruits are used as
spice and also in pickles and preserves
-fruits and roots
are used for disease of respiratory tract, as counter irritant and analgesic
when applied locally for muscular pains and inflammation and as snuff in coma
and drowsiness
-internally as
carminative, tonic, haematinic, emmenagogue, abortificient, antihelmintic and
also in dysentery and leprosy
-fruit is useful in
snakebite, scorpion sting and night blindness
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