Family Pinaceae.
Habitat Native of northern scandinavia.
English Baltic Amber, Succinite. Unani Ambar, Kahruubaa,
Action Cardiac tonic, styptic. Vateria indica is used in Unani medicine as a substitute for P
succinfera gum-resin (Fossil-resin).
Piper attenuatum
Buch.-Ham. exMiq.
Synonym P bantamense Blume. Family Piperaceae.
Habitat Eastern tropical Himalayas, Assam, Khasi Hills and the Nilgiris.
Siddha/Tamil Kattumilaaku. Action Root—diuretic. Plant— rubefacient; used for muscular pains and headache.
Several aristolactams have been reported from the aerial parts of the plant. Crotepoxide exhibited significant antitumour activity.
Roots contain alkamides including piperine, piperlonguminine and guineensine.
Piper betle Linn.
Family Piperaceae.
Habitat Cultivated in warmer and damper parts of India; Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala.
English Betel pepper.
Ayurvedic Taambula, Naagvallari, Naagini, Taambulvalli, Saptashiraa, Bhujangalataa.
Unani Paan, Tambool.
Siddha/Tamil Vetrilai Nagavalli, Kammaaruvetritai.
Action Leaf—stimulant, carminative, astringent, antiseptic. Essential oil from leaves—antispasmodic, antiseptic. Used in respiratory catarrhs. Fruit—bechic.
The leaves afforded beta- and gamma- sitosterol, hentriacontane, pentatriacontane, n -triacontanol, stearic acid and chavicol. The essential oil from leaves contained carvacrol, eugenol, chavicol, allyl catechol, cineole, estragol, caryophyllene, cardinene, pcymene and eugenol methyl ether.
490 Piper chaba Hunter non-Blume.
Administration of the leafextract resulted in decreased tumour burden and tumour incidence and a delay in the onset of mammary tumour in Wistar rats.
