PIPER NIGRAM : A REMEDY FOR COUGH
PIPER
NIGRAM
BOTANICAL NAME: Piper nigram
FAMILY: Piperaceae
COMMON NAMES: English: Black pepper
DESCRIPTION: A strong somewhat woody glabrous climber.
Leaves coriaceous, 10-18 cm in length and 5-12.5 cm in breadth, broad ovate or
ovate-oblong to nearly orbicular, rounded or more or less cordate at base and
oblique. Flowers on slightly interrupted glabrous spikes. Fruit a berry, small, sessile, globose when ripe red in color.
DISTRIBUTION: Indigenous
to and cultivated in south India.
PART USED: Dry unripe
fruit.
HOMOEOPATHIC
USES
HEADACHE: Severe headache,
as if temples were pressed in, pressure in nasal and facial bones. Bursting in
eyeballs. Sensation of burning and pressure everywhere.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: Gastric discomfort. Full feeling.
Flatulence. Colic and cramps.
DYSPNEA: Difficulty in
breathing. Cough with pain in chest in spots, feels as if spitting blood.
POTENCY: Lower potencies
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