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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