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Common Name | Black Pepper |
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 Remedies using Black Pepper
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Condiment, spice, essential oil
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 Pepper, like cinnamon and cloves is one of the oldest known spices and was being used in India over 4,000 years ago. Ayurvedic medicines use tiny amounts of black pepper to make the other herbs in the formula more available to the body. |
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 Essence from the fruit, known as peppercorns. Oil of black pepper is a light amber color, and smells like clove, but with a pleasantly lighter scent. Black pepper oil is hot, warming and very yang |
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| Mental Focus, Headache | | [209] In homeopathic practice black pepper is used for difficulty in concentrating, heavy headache, and a sad, apprehensive state of mind.
(Tisserand, Robert ) | | Rheumatoid arthritis | | [883] Black pepper oil is hot, warming, very yang. Externally it is rubefacient and gently analgesic, and stimulant, successful in cases of rheumatoid arthritis
(Tisserand, Robert ) | | [473] Black pepper's stimulant action aids digestion and is specially useful in atonic dyspepsia and torbid condition of the stomach. It will correct flatulence and nausea.
(Grieve, Maude ) | | [1229] Aromatic, stimulant, carminative- Black pepper said to possess febrifuge properties. Its action as a stimulant is specially evident on the mucous membrane of the rectum, and so is good for constipation, also on the urinary organs. On account of black pepper's stimulant action it aids digestion and is specially useful in atonic dyspepsia and torpid condition of the stomach. It will correct flatulence and nausea...Black pepper has also been used in vertigo, paralytic and arthritic disorders.
(Grieve, Maude 628) | | Aches and pains | | [994] Black pepper oil is hot, warming, very yang. Externally it is rubefacient and gently analgesic.
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Koehler's Medicinal-Plants 1887
 Black peppers are culitivated in malabar, Java, Sumatra, and Penang. Peppercorns are the fruit of Piper nigrum, an evergreen climbing vine. Black, white, and green peppercorns all come form the same plant, but they are harvested at different times and handled in different ways. Black peppercorns are the sun-dried red berries, which are picked before they are ripe.
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 All peppers are under the dominion of Mars, and of temperature hot and dry, almost to the fourth degree, but the white is the hottest. It comforts and warms the stomach, consumes crude and moist humours, and stirs up the appetite. Nicholas Culpeper |
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Black Pepper Medicinal Uses
