Pepper known as the king of spices is one most widely used spice in world, and it has its fair share medicinal properties well. It been traditional medicine for many centuries owing to apart from flavour pungent taste. Piperine important bioactive compound present different Piper species. Differences among three species common South India viz. <i>Piper nigrum</i>, longum</i>, ...

“TIKTAKAM KASHAYAM” is evaluated by in-silico study using PASS online software. Its having anti-inflammatory activity and also anti-neoplastic especially colon cancer. In-vitro heavy metal analysis shows lead mercury below the detection limit, cadmium not detected arsenic present approved range. Some important toxicities like hepatotoxicity shown compound azadirachtin in Azadiracta indica, neur...

Herbal medicinal plants are in great demand for their use food preparations, pharmaceuticals, cosmetic and beauty aids. But its availability is reduced every year due to attack of fungal disease i.e. leaf blight. Therefore an experiment was conducted gather the knowledge about future management aspect this disease. Here three viz, Piper longum, Tylophora indica Hibiscus subdariffa were planted ...

Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden "Al. Buia" in Craiova house a varied collection plants, belonging to numerous families. In this paper, species from families Commelinaceae and Piperaceae are presented.
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Successful in vitro propagation through ex vitro rooting mechanism has been achieved in Piper longum by nodal shoot segment cultures. Shoot tip explants were less proliferative compared to the nodal meristems. The explants were sterilized using 0.1% HgCl2 and cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium with various concentrations of growth regulators. MS medium supplemented with 1.0 mg/L 6-benz...

Piper longum (P. longum, also called as long pepper) is one of the common culinary herbs that has been extensively used as a crucial constituent in various indigenous medicines, specifically in traditional Indian medicinal system known as Ayurveda. For exploring the comprehensive effect of its constituents in humans at proteomic and metabolic levels, we have reviewed all of its known phytochemi...