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Freshly ground pepper is a healthy spice
Pepper stimulates the taste buds and helps to promote digestion. Whole peppercorns are used in pickling, marinades and stews, ground pepper adds it flavor in savory dishes. Keeping peppercorns whole, and grinding just when required keeps the flavor.
Pepper is also a good activator of herbal formulations, for instance pepper is added to tumeric to increase it's potency. The aromatic oil of pepper is used in aromatherapy
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Related Species
Piper cuberba Cubeb
Piper methysticum Kava-Kava
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| Black pepper essential oil is a skin irritant in high concentrations, use in moderation. |
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Preparation Methods :Condiment, spice, essential oil
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Black Pepper for :Atonic dyspepsia |
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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. Maud Grieve, Modern Herbal Volume 2 (1931) |
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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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 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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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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 Pepper, like cinnamon and cloves is one of the oldest known spices and was being used in India over 4,000 years ago. |
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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 |
 Pepper was used as a currency during the siege of Rome in AD 408 and "peppercorn rents", now meaning very low rents, were commonly paid to landlords. It is said that Attila demanded 3,000 pounds of pepper in ransom for the city of Rome. | |
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