Name: Piper longum L.

  1. Common name: Long pepper, pippali
  2. Vernacular name: Pipoli (Assamese), Pipari (Gujarati), Tippali (Malay)
  3. Family:Piperaceae
  4. Habits: A perennial slender, aromatic climber, glabrous with branches soft angular and grooved when dry, perennial woody roots, creeping and jointed stems.
  5. Habitats: found both wild as well as cultivated, throughout the hotter parts of India from central to the north-eastern Himalayas.
  6. Flower: Early winters
  7. Part used : fruits
  8. Distribution: Kerala, Assam and Tamil Nadu

Uses: Cleansing the lungs, kidneys, and lymph nodes and used as a brain tonic