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Crude drug name | Market name | Pipal |
|---|---|---|
| Urudu name | Pipal | |
| Arabic name / Persian name | Dar-filfil / Fil fil-daraz | |
| English name | Long Pepper | |
| Original plant name | Piper longum Linn., Long Pepper | |
| Family name | Piperaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | fruit |
| Collection information | Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Karachi [Karachi], Sind , Amjad Unani Medicine (Pvt.) Ltd. | |
| Collection date | 1994/1/22 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba | |
| Identifier | Javed Ahmad | |
| Description | Features: Two types of fruiting spikes occur in the trade i.e. large variety and short variety. The large variety consists of straight, blunt spikes of greyish brown in colour, measuring 3 to 4cm in length and upto 8mm. in diameter. The rhizome is 0.5 to 1.5cm thick, sometimes branched in zigzag fashion. | |
| TMPW No. | 14568 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Urudu name, English name | Pipal, Long Pepper | ||||
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| Arabic name / Persian name | Dar-filfil / Fil fil-daraz | |||||
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| Original plant name | Piper longum Linn. | |||||
| Family name | Piperaceae | |||||
| Used part | Fruits | |||||
| Distribution area | Native of India and cultivated in Western Ghats, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu (India) for fruits which are used as spice and condiment. | |||||
| Function and properties | Head and chest, Eye, Food, Excretion. Stomachic, astringent, carminative, aphrodisiac, stimulant, resolvent and calorific. | |||||
| Specific actions | Stomach tonic, astringent, calorific, effective against cold affections. | |||||
| Frequency in use | Common. | |||||
| Common uses | Head and chest: The fruit is effective against colic, flatulence, cough, bronchitis and coryza. Both (fruit and root) remove cold affections i.e. rheumatism, gout and sciatica. The fruit acts as expectorant. Eye: The powder of the fruit is used in eye diseases. Food: The fruit is much used as a spice. Excretion: The fruit and root are also used as aphrodisiac alone or with other suitable drugs. | |||||
| Side effect | It may cause headache. | |||||
| Medical system | Unani | |||||
| Traditional concept | Temperament | It is hot and dry in the second degree. | ||||
| Drug effect | Stomach tonic and digestive. | |||||
| Dosage | 1 to 2gm. (both fruit and root). | |||||
| Substitute | Filfil Safaid (Piper nigrum Linn.) white pepper (after divested of the fruit cover) and Zingiber officinale Rosc. | |||||
| Corrigent (corrective) | Babul Gond (gum acacia), Sandal (Santalum album Linn.) and Gulab (Rosa damascena Mill.). | |||||
| Important compound preparations | Jawarish Kamuni and Jawarish Jalinus. | |||||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | Illustrated Manual of Herbal Drugs Used in Ayurveda, 1996. Sarin, Y.K., Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi pp 80, 276. Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay Vol. 1, pp 965-968. Makhzanul-Mufradat (Khawasul Adviyah), Hakeem Kabiruddin, Daftar Al-Masih, Qarol Bagh, Delhi. pp 177-179. A Survey of Drugs, 1961 (2nd edi.). Wahid, A. K. and Siddiqui, H. H. Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, Delhi. pp 8-10. Dictionary of Economic Plants in India, 1996 (2nd Rep.). Singh, U; Wadhwani, A. M. and Johri B.M. Indian council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. p 174. Al-Qanun Fil-Tibb. Avicenna. (English translation of the critical Arabic text), Book 2, 1998. Hameed, H. A. (editor), Dept. of Islamic Studies, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi. p 352. Indusyunic Medicine, 1997. Usmanghani, K., Saeed, A. and Alam, M. T. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi. pp 342-344. Unani Adwiyah Mufradah, 1984. Ali, Saifuddin, A. (3rd edi.). Taraqi-e-Urdu Bureau, R. K. Puram, New Delhi. pp 154-155. | ||||
| Remarks | The drug is included in the list of the drugs added by Unani physicians to their Materia Medica. | |||||
| Last renewal date | 2024/03/11 | |||||
