Black Pepper in Herbal Medicine
Posted by admin on Apr 1, 2008
Black pepper is a stout, glabrous climber, with smooth branches. Leaves are broadly ovate, some what leathery, with pointed, rounded, or heart-shaped base, having 5 to 9 prominent veins. The flowers are bisexual or unisexual, in slender, drooping spikes. The berries are borne in racemes, one sided. It grows in all tropical countries.
Herbal uses
- Pepper used as a stimulant and helps in digestion.
- Soothes the nerves and gives tone and vitality to the body.
- Pepper is used to promote the dissipation of a growth or swelling.
- Relieves flatulence, strengthens a gives tone to the stomach.
- Relieves toothaches and helping general throat diseases.
- Black Pepper is used to cure skin disorders like itching.
- Used for the treatment of various kinds of muscle pains and inflammation of joints.
- Used in the case of diarrhea, cholera, and giddiness.
- For relief from constipation.
How to use
- The decoction or infusion of the unripe berries is used as a mouth wash in toothaches and as a gargle in general throat diseases.
- The juice of the leaves is applied in the case of itching of the skin.
- Ground pepper mixed with Castor oil is good for arthritic disorders, diarrhea, cholera and giddiness.
- The ripe fruits with the outer covering removed are the white peppers recommended for constipation.
Black pepper plays a major role in the field of herbal medicine and it is largely available in Asian countries.
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