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Piper nigrum
A perennial climber, rooting at nodes, leaves simple, alternate, cordate, and broadly ovate; flowers minute in hanging spikes, usually dioecious; fruits globose, one seeded berries, red when ripe. Seeds globose with acrid taste.
spotted along bushes near human habitation.
It has various medicinal properties such as expectorant, stimulant, antipyretic, anthelmintic, carminative, antiperiodic action.It acts as rubefacient, resolvent and stimulant when used externally. It relieves toothache and paralysis.
Spotted on Dec 24, 2011
Submitted on Jun 19, 2012
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