Pepper
Botanical Name: Piper nigrum
Indian Name: Kali mire
Known as the "king of spices". The pepper plant is a stout smooth evergreen creeper,
much swollen at its nodes. Black pepper is the whole dried fruit.


Black pepper is stimulant, pungent, aromatic, digestive am nervine tonic. Its pungency is due to the resin chavicine, which is most abundant in the mesocarp. Black pepper is useful in relieving flatulence.

Digestive Disorders Pepper has a stimulating effect on the digestive organs anti produces an increased flow of saliva and gastric juices. Powdered black pepper, thoroughly mixed with malted jaggery, taken in the treatment of such conditions. Alternatively, a quarter teaspoon of pepper powder mixed in thin buttermilk can be taken during indigestion or heaviness in the stomach. For better results, an equal part of cumin powder may also be added to the buttermilk.

Common Cold Pepper is beneficial in the treatment of cold and fever. Six pepper seeds finely ground and mixed in a glass of warm water along with 6 pieces of batasha a variety of sugar candy, taken for a few nights for good results.

Coughs Pepper is an effective remedy for coughs caused due to throat irritation: Three peppers sucked with a pinch of caraway seeds and a crystal of common salt provides relief.


Muscular Pains As an external application, pepper dilates the superficial vessels and acts as a counter irritant. A tablespoon of pepper powder fried in sesame oil until it is charred can be applied beneficially as an analgesic liniment for mylagia and rheumatic pains.

Teeth Disorders Pepper powder and common salt mixture is an excellent dentifrice. Its daily use prevents dental cares, foul breath, bleeding from the gums, painful gums, toothaches, and cures the increased sensitiveness of the teeth.

Pyorrhoea Pepper is useful in pyorrhoea or pus in the gums. Finely powdered pepper and salt mixture when massaged over the gums relieves inflammation.

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