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Piper nigrum Linn. (Fam. Piperaceae) |
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Piper nigrum Linn. (Fam. Piperaceae) |
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History |
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Habitat |
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It consists of fully mature dried fruit of Piper nigrum Linn. (Fam. Piperaceae); a climber, cultivated from Konkan Southwards, especially in North Konkan Kerala, and also in Assam; fruits ripen from December to March, depending upon climatic conditions; fruits harvested from December to April.
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Morphology
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a) Macroscopic
Fruits greyish-black to black, hard, wrinkled, 0.4-0.5 cm in dia.; odour, aromatic; taste, pungent.
b) Microscopic
Fruit consists of a thick pericarp for about one third of fruit and an inner mass of perisperm, enclosing a small embryo; pericarp consists of epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp; epicarp composed of single layered, slightly sinuous, tabular cells forming epidermis, below which, are present 1 or 2 layers of radially elongated, lignified stone cells adjacent to group of cells of parenchyma; mesocarp wide, composed of band of tangentially elongated parenchymatous cells having a few isolated, tangentially elongated oil cells present in outer region and a few fibro-vascular bundles, a single row of oil cells in the inner region of mesocarp; endocarp composed of a row of beakershaped stone cells; testa single layered, yellow coloured, thick-walled sclerenchymatous cells; perisperm contains parenchymatous cells having a few oil globules and packed with abundant, oval to round, simple and compound starch grains measuring 5.5-11.0 µ in dia.; having 2-3 components and a few minute aleurone grains.
Powder - Blackish-grey; shows debris with a characteristic, in groups, more or less isodiametric or slightly elongated stone cells, interspersed with thin-walled, polygonal hypodermal cells; beaker-shaped stone cells from endocarp and abundant polyhedral, elongated cells from peri sperm, packed tightly with masses of minute compound and single, oval to round, starch grains measuring 5.5-11.0 µ in dia.; having 2-3 component and a few aleurone grains and oil globules.
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Principal Constituents Pharmacology
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Alkaloids (Piperine, Chavicine, Piperidine, Piperetine) and essential Oil.
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Toxicology
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Indications
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It is much employed as an aromatic stimulant in weakness following fevers, coma, etc., as a stomachic in dyspepsia and flatulence. It has bacteriostatic and fungistatic properties. |
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