| Pepper Long |
| Description | |
| Pepper long is the dried fruit of Piper longum
which is a slender, aromatic plant with creeping jointed stems and perennial
woody roots. The leaves are 5-9 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, ovate, cordate with
broad rounded lobes at the base. Female spikes are cylindrical, male spikes
are larger and slender. Female spikes are 1.3-2.5 cm long, 4.5 mm diameter,
fruits ovoid, yellowish orange, minute, drupe and are sunk in the fleshy
spike. The spike are red when ripe. |
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| Origin and Distribution | |
| The plant is distributed from Central Himalayas
to Assam, Lower hills of Bengal, evergreen forests of Western Ghats, Nicobar
Islands, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal. The Indonesian or Malaysian long pepper
is from Pepper retrofractum.
Pepper long is cultivated on a large scale in lime stone soil and in
heavy rainfall areas where relative humidity is high. |
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| Uses | |
| It is used as a spice and also in pickles and preserves. The fruits and roots are used as medicine for respiratory disease and as counter irritant and analgesic for muscular pains and inflammation. It has carminative, haematinic and anti-helmintic properties. |
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Botanical name |
Family name |
Commercial part |
| Piper longum |
Piperaceae |
Fruit |
| Indian Names | |
| Assamese | : Piplu, Pipal |
| Hindi | : Pipli |
| Bengali | : Piplamore (root), Pipli |
| Gujarati | : Pipli |
| Kannada | : Hippali, Hippalibali, Kuna |
| Sindhii | : Pippli |
| Malayalam | : Tippali |
| Marathi | : Pimpli |
| Oriya | : Pippoli |
| Punjabi | : Piplamul (root) |
| Sanskrit | : Pippali |
| Tamil | : Tippili, Sirimulam |
| Telugu | : Tippili, Pippuloo |
| Urdu | : Pipul |
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