{"id":776,"date":"2012-11-07T01:27:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T01:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=776"},"modified":"2013-01-27T05:53:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T05:53:44","slug":"black-pepper-piper-nigrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Black Pepper ~ Piper nigrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Piper-nigrum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1294\" title=\"Piper nigrum\" src=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Piper-nigrum-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a>Black Pepper<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: Piper nigrum<\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Piperaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: Fruit (peppercorn)<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: Tropics, includingIndia ,Indonesia, and naturalized in S. America<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: volatile oil, alkaloids (piperine)<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: warming, spicy, very drying (Ayurveda)<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: carminative, stimulant, alterative (Ayurveda)<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: analgesic, antiseptic, digestive, febrifuge, stomachic<\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: indigestion, flatulence, mental fogginess, heartburn, appetite loss, nausea, catarrh<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: muscle pains, rheumatism, and stiffness (external oil), colds, flu<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: widely used as a condiment; oil: steam inhalation or topical; 10 peppercorns boiled in milk (Ayurveda)<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: pregnancy (possible)<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: rubefacient \/irritant<\/p>\n<p><em>Notes<\/em>: Premier alterative in Ayurveda<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: Wren, R.C. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations<\/span>; http:\/\/www.andybarson.btinternet.co.uk\/pepper.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Pepper Latin name: Piper nigrum Family: Piperaceae Part used: Fruit (peppercorn) Habitat: Tropics, includingIndia ,Indonesia, and naturalized in S. America Main constituents: volatile oil, alkaloids (piperine) Energetics: warming, spicy, very drying (Ayurveda) Main herbal actions: carminative, stimulant, alterative (Ayurveda) Minor herbal actions: analgesic, antiseptic, digestive, febrifuge, stomachic Main medicinal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,4,72,38,36,32,130,119,92,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alterative","category-aryuvedic-herbs","category-carminative","category-drying","category-energetics-taste","category-properties","category-spicy","category-stimulant","category-warming","category-western-herbs","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}