Plant Name: PIPER LONGUM
English Name: Dried Catkins
Local Name: Long pepper, Jaborandi pepper, Pippali
Family: Piperaceae
Uses:
Long pepper is locally applied to counter-irritant and act as analgesic for muscular pains and inflammation. Long pepper acts as a general tonic and hematinic and widely used in Ayurveda as good rejuvenator. Piper longum is known to enhance the bio-availability of food and drugs. In fact Piper Longum is taken along with Quinine for making it more effective. Piper longum is widely used as a carminative. Piper longum is widely used in Ayurvedic and Unani systems of medicine particularly for diseases of respiratory tract most of them includes cough, bronchitis, asthma etc.
