Thursday, August 9, 2012

Musli & Pipali

Pipali (Piper longum)

Botanical Name: Piper longum

Family Name: Piperaceae

Common Name: Long Pepper, Dried Catkins, Pippali, Pipal

Part Used: Fruit

Active Compounds: Fruits include volatile oil, resin, piperine and a terpenoid essence

Habitat and Botany: It is a fragile aromatic climber with perennial woody roots occurring in the hotter talents of India western coasts, central Himalayas to Assam and humble hills of Bengal. This is single in kind of the rarest spices in the erly. From a cousin of the familiar spirit peppercorn, these are two inch spun out bud heads made up of hind part before one hundred tiny seeds, gray in pretence, and tightly bunched together. Used the sake of its peppery-gingerish flavor in old times

Description

This climbing shrub is Indigenous to India and Sri Lanka. It is cultivated in other genius

Actions:

analgesic, anthelmintic, aphrodisiac, carminative, expectorant.

Uses :

Abdominal tumors

Asthma

Bronchitis

Colds

Coughs

Digestion

Epilepsy

Flatulence

Gout

Laryngitis

Paralysis

Rheumatic misery

Sciatica

Worms

Musli (Chlorophytum Borivilianum)

Botanical Name : Chlorophytum Borivilianum

Popular Name(s): Safed Moosli, Shaqaqule, Dholi Musli, Khiruva, Shedheveli, Swetha Musli, Taniravi Thang

Genus: Chlorophytum

Family: Liliaceae

Kingdom : Plantae

Series: Coronarieae

Class: Monocotyledons

Species: C. borivilianum

Parts Used: Seeds and roots

Habitat: Northern and westerly India

Plant Chemicals Safed Musli contains carbohydrates (35-45%), fiber (25-35%), alkaloids (15-25%), saponins (2-20%), and proteins (5-10%).

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