Peepli پیپلی

Description

Peepli or magan at sknatural is Piper longum. It belongs to family “Piperaceae”. Generally people use its fruits and root. It is warm and dry in second order.

Other names:

• Arabic Name(s): Dar-Filfil
• Urdu Name(s): Piplamul, Pipal Kalan, Filfil Daraz, Mughan, Pipri
• English Name(s): Long Pepper, Dried Catkins

Properties:

Stomach tonic, astringent, carminative, stimulant, calorific, resolvent, detersive, aphrodisiac, antiflatulent, abortifacient, alterative tonic, diuretic, vermifuge, emmenagogue, rubefacient, removes cold affections, antinauseant, antiepileptic, expectorant.

Recommended dosage:

1-2 g approx. It can cause headache, if you use in large quantity or for longterm.

Medicinal uses:

The fruit of Piper longum Linn. widely used as a spice and a common ingredient in astringent decoctions administered for diarrhoea and indigestion. When powdered, long pepper, mixed with honey, alleviates colds, coughs, asthma, hoarseness, and hiccups. Additionally, a mixture of long pepper root, black pepper, and ginger serves as a useful remedy for catarrh and hoarseness and effectively treats colic, flatulence, coughs, bronchitis, and coryza.

Peepli, combined with Adhatoda leaves, sugar, butter, and honey, successfully treats asthma and acts as a potent expectorant. Furthermore, a linctus made with appropriate ingredients aids children suffering from cough and catarrhal fever with difficult breathing. Long pepper, made into pills, serves as a valuable alterative tonic, treating paraplegia, bronchitis, emphysema, enlargement of the spleen, and abdominal viscera.

Moreover, oil containing ginger and long pepper benefits as a rubefacient when applied in cases of sciatica and paraplegia. Additionally, the oil, when rubbed externally, provides relief for sciatica, rheumatism, lumbago, etc. The fruits, heated with goat’s liver and the resulting water applied, effectively treat epiphora and pterygium (after calcination).

Furthermore, they administer to women after childbirth to prevent haemorrhage and control fever and serve as the best vermifuge remedy for colic in children. When combined with Embelia ribes Burm., Asafoetida, Piper betel, and Abrus precatorius Linn., and made into a dry extract administered for 20 days (4 doses), it produces contraceptive action that remains effective for four months.