Black pepper extract:
Botanical Name : Piper nigrum
Family : Piperaceae
Active compound : Piperene 95%
Introduction
Piper nigrum is commonly known as the pepper, is a flowering vine of piperaceae family growing to a height of 3 to 4 meter. Piperene is the most active compound derived from Piper nigrum. Dried ground pepper has been used since ancient times for both its flavour and as a medicine. Researchers have reported that it possesses nutraceutical important and medicinally potent phyto active compounds like flavonoids, alkaloids, terpenoids and essential oils. It has many medicinal properties like it is used to treat asthma, obesity, arthritis, paralytic, cancer, common fever, indigestion, cholera and diarrhoea.
Therapeutic Applications