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244 SANSKRIT MATERIA MEDICA. 



with some rough leaves as of Streblns asper ( sdkhota ) 



sprinkled over with powdered black pepper. 1 









PIPER LONGUM, Linn. 



Sy7i. Chavica Roxburghii, Miq. 

 Sans, f^^ft, Pippali. WW> Kami, ^wr, Krishna. 



Vern. Pipul, Beng. Pipal, Hind. 



The dried catkins and the root of Piper longum are used in 

 medicine. They are considered heating, stimulant, carminative, 

 alterative, laxative and useful in cough, hoarseness, asthma, 

 dyspepsia, paralysis, etc. Old long pepper is said to be more 

 efficacious than the fresh article. In the form trihatn or the three 

 aor ids (Piper nigrum) % it is much used as an aromatic adjunct 

 in compound prescriptions. Powdered long pepper, administered 

 with honey, is said to relieve cough, asthma, hoarseness, hiccup, 

 and sleeplessness. 2 A mixture of long pepper, long pepper root, 

 black pepper and ginger in equal parts, is prescribed by several 

 writers as a useful combination for catarrh and hoarseness. 



As an alterative tonic, long pepper is recommended for use in 

 a peculiar manner. An infusion of three long peppers is to be 

 taken with honey on the first day, then for ten successive dayfl 



the 



every day, so 



that 



on the tenth day the patient will take thirty at one dose. Then 

 the dose is to be gradually redaced by three daily and finally 

 the medicine is to be omitted. Thus administered it is said to 

 aot as a valuable alterative tonic in paraplegia, chronic congb> 

 enlargements of the spleen and other abdominal viscera, etc. 



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