Pepper Flower Pepper (Piper nigrum)
胡椒花椒hú jiāo huā jiāoHujiaohuajiao
Piper nigrum · Plant
2
Indications
5
With studies in people
Cautions
May increase absorption of other drugs; avoid with medications with narrow therapeutic windows; may irritate gastric mucosa.
Indications
What AcuiQ’s herb catalogue lists Pepper Flower Pepper for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.
Inflammation SyndromeNausea Syndrome
TCM actions
What the catalogue says Pepper Flower Pepper does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the herb, not a condition.
Benefit AntimicrobialBenefit AntioxidantBenefit DigestiveBenefit Immune
In the literature
PubMed records whose title or abstract names Piper nigrum and the indication, and how many of those are indexed as studies in people. A record names the two together; it does not show that one treats the other, and most are laboratory or animal work.
- Benefit Antimicrobial94 records, 18 in people
- Benefit Antioxidant158 records, 47 in people
- Benefit Digestive43 records, 15 in people
- Benefit Immune51 records, 14 in people
- Inflammation Syndrome106 records, 38 in people
- Nausea Syndrome1 records