Description:
Ripen inflorescence harvested are dried.
Fruit is dark brown or black in color, 2. 5 to
7 cm long, lanceolate / pointed, green in raw,
dark green when matured and black when
comes in trade. Fruit seems having many
dusts stuck in outer side. It smells very sweet
and aromatic.
Uses:
Mainly, fruits are used as condiments. Fruit
and leaf are used as hair tonic and to control
malarial fever. Pipla is used as medicine
and anti-poisonous medicine for snake and
wild lizard bites. It is also used in herbal tea.
Roots are used as medicine in the treatment
of fever, energetic, cough and common cold.