Indian long pepper

Scientific name of Indian long pepper: Piper longum

Name of Indian long pepper in different languages:

Sanskrit: Pippaly, Krushna

Hindi: Peepaly

Malayalam: Thippaly തിപ്പലി, Pippaly പിപ്പലി, Sugandamaricham സുഗന്ധമരിചം

Plant description of Indian long pepper:-

Indian long pepper (Piper longum) is a flowering climber vine, that resembles with black pepper plant, leaves are dark green, heart-shaped, perennial, arranged alternately, ovate-oblong, aromatic, 6.5 cm to 9.0 cm long, flowers are male and female, borne on different plants, Fruit is long, dark green it turns red, when ripe, dried fruits are black color. It is one inch in diameter seeds are contained in a fleshy berry, 2.5 mm long. propagation- stem cutting can plant to prepare new plants.

Leaf Arrangement

Shape-Heart shaped	Margin-Entire	Venation-Cross venulated

Useful plant parts:

Root, seed

Medicinal uses:

It is a good rejuvenator, stimulates the appetite, and expels intestinal gas, stimulant, and carminative, used in the treatment of constipation, gonorrhea, paralysis of the tongue and diarrhea, cholera, malaria, viral and hepatitis.

Chemical contents:

Piperlongumine, peppeyartin, pepparin, steroid

How to prepare medicines: 

Indian long pepper is used as an ingredient in many of Ayurvedic medicinesd like-