Nice Information and Pics Usha Ji On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:09 PM, ushadi Micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Dear All: > > Hers is another example of Piper longum... > > Name: * Piper longum* > > Family: Piperaceae > > Fruits: Sanskrit: पीपली > > Gujarati: * **પીપલી* > > Bengali: পিপুল > > > > Roots in Gujarati : *પીપળી** મુળ ના ગંઠોડા* > > In a wildlife preserve in southern fringes of Calcutta... > one day we spotted these bright yellow candle like fruits... > > This particular plant is a volunteer... among a large number of other > volunteers > vines and ferns and herbs... > this small patch of land ...left mostly wild is less than a mile from a > well tended > well researched Herbal Garden where they had been growing > piper longum for several years.. > so I surmise that source of this volunteer (among other herbs) > is from that herbal garden... > but the truth?.... god only knows... > > This vine was all of about 6 feet tall, climbing up the trunk of a neem > tree ... > fruits are about 1.0 to 1.5 inches long... 1/4 inch wide... > Leaves are about 3 to 4 inches long... > picture 1 and 2 have several* non-piper-longum* leaves that > I do not presume to know what they are... > > Piper longum is an important Ayurvedic medicine... > the fruits obviously... for various repiratory and gastrointestinal > disorders... > but the roots are used extensively as powder in various herbal mixtures > and as household grandma remedies for monsoon related digestive aids , > in Deepan Pachan.. in respiratory disorders, in various mixtures for > pain > relief, and even as massage mixtures for plegia.. muscle weaknesses.. > > Usha di... > ===== > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
