280 The Ufeful Family Herbal. - 
derable: They grow to the Stalk. The Fruit 
fucceeds, which is what we call Pepper: They 
hang upon a long Stalk, twenty or forty together: 
They are green at firft, but when ripe they are 
red: They grow black and wrinkled in drying. 
The largeft and leaft wrinkled on the Coat, are 
the beft Grains. : 
_ The Fruit is ufed, and it is excellent againft all 
Coldneffes and Crudities upon the Stomach. It 
gives Appetite in thefe Cafes, and-affifts Digeftion. 
_ Itis alfo good againft Dizzineffes of the Head, 
and againft Obftru€tions of the Liver and Spleen, 
and againft Cholics; We are apt to neglect 
‘Things as Medicines, that we take with Food; a 
but there is hardly a more powerful Simple of its 
Kind than Pepper, when given fingly, and on an a 
‘empty Stomach, 
WHuiTeE Pepper. 
PIPER AFR as 
TH E common White Pepper we meet with, is 
_ made from the Black, by foking it in Sea 
‘Water till it fwells, and the dark wrinkled Coat 
falls off ; but this though the common, is not the 
true White Pepper: There is another Kind, 
which is natural, and has no Affiftance from Art. 
The White Pepper Plant, has round, thick, and 
_ whitifh Stalks: They lie upon the Ground, and 
have large Joints: At. each Joint ftands a fing: : 
—" Leaf, which is long, and narrow, fharp at the — 
End, and ribbed. “The Flowers grow on little — 
ks, hanging down from the Joints: They are 
and yellow. The Fruit is round; at firft 
green, and when rip white, which is gathered as 
and dried for Ufe. RS = bias | ee po" 
__ This Fruit is ufed. The common White Pep- 
___ per is milder than the Black; that is, it is Black 
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