Plant Piper nigrum (Piperaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Black Pepper; Pepper; White Pepper

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
PHYTIN-PHOSPHORUS	0	Fruit	not available	1150.0	-0.13	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Fruit	550.0	1028.0	0.11	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERANINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERANINE	0	Seed Oil	not available	320.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERCIDE	0	Fruit	not available	13.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERETTINE	0	Fruit	234.0	8200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERICINE	0	Fruit	not available	0.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERIDINE	10	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERIDINE	10	Fruit	606.0	2700.0	0.75	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERIDINE	10	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERINE	61	Fruit	5000.0	150000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERINE	61	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERINE	61	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERINE	61	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERINE	61	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERINE	61	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERINE	61	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERINE	61	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERINE	61	Stem	not available	1100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE	7	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	400.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihypercholesterolemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiileus	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiimplantation	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiimpotence	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiinfarctal	1	Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfective	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory	34	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiinsomniac	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomnic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiischemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antikeratitic	1	Duke, 1992 *