| 1. Names:
 Sanskrit: |
Magadhi |
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| English:
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Lindipipper |
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| Botanical: |
Piper longum |
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| Hindi: |
Pipalmal |
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| Telugu: |
Pippallu |
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| Common
names: |
Thippili, Pippal, Pipli, Hipli,
Vettilai, Pipram, Kandan Lippili, Pipla mul, Thippali,
Long pepper |
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| Family
name: |
Piperaceae |
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2. Parts used:
3. Properties and Action According to Indigenous
Medical Systems:
- Rasa: Sweet and spicy.
- Veerya: Ushna veerya according to some saints and Seetaveerya
according to other.
4. Uses:
- It is cooling and oily, digestive, carminative, stimulant,
febrifuge, alternative and tonic.
- According to Ayurveda it is recommended to take this
herb with milk [cow or goat] to enhances the absorption
of this herb.
- It is good remedy for piles with butter milk.
- It relieves stomach pain.
- It balances three doshas.
- It is useful in the treatment of thirst, fever, abdominal
diseases.
- It clears worms in stomach.
- Alterative, tonic, sedative, vermifuge, cholagogue, emmenagogue.
- Used in cough, cold, chronic bronchitis, palsy, gout,
rheumatism, lumbago, insomnia, epilepsy, asthma, amorexia,
piles, dyspepsia, leucoderma.
5. Names due to Physical properties:
- Vaidehi: Which grows in a place called as “Videha”.
- Sookshmatiktatandula: The plant with minute and bitter
seeds.
6. Names due to Medical properties:
7. Reference:
Vasthu guna deepika, Vasthu guna prakashika, Chakradatta,
Susrutam, Basabarajeezam, Bhavaprakashika, Vangacena, Charakasamhita,
Vagvatamu, Hareetasamhita, Srijanakalpavalli.
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