Piper RETROFRACTUM Vahl.
| Synonym : | Piper chaba Hunter Piper officinarum (Miq.) C. DC. |
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| Bangla Name : | Choi, Chab. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Piperaceae |
| Disease : | Pain, stimulant, carminative, anthelmintic, cough, cold, asthma, bronchitis, fever, piles, hemorrhoidal affections and alexiteric. |
| Description : | A stout climber, with flexuous branches. Leaves very short petioled, rather coriaceous, 12.5-18 cm long, oblong, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, shining above, base round unequal, cordate. Fruiting spikes 2.5-5 cm long, stoutly peduncled, suberect, conico-cylindric, forming a fleshy cone of innumerable fruits. |
| Distribution : | Jessore, Khulna (cultivated). |
| Chemical Constituents : | Stem bark of the plant has been reported to contain lignan and alkaloids, such as piper amine, 2, 4-decadienoic acid piperidine, kusunokinin and pellitorine. Roots have been reported to contain some alkamides such as piperine, sylvatine, piplartine and pi |
| Uses : | The plant is used to cure rheumatic pain and body pain after childbirth. Fruits are stimulant, carminative, anthelmintic and expectorant, used in cough, cold, asthma, bronchitis, fever, piles and in hemorrhoidal affections, they improve appetite and taste |
| Habit : | Climber |