Medical benefits of tailed pepper (Thoka Miriyalu).
Overview :
Cubeb or tailed pepper is a plant cultivated for its essential oil and fruit with strong fragrance. Cubebs are of carefully dried berries, which are similar to black pepper in appearance, but with stalks attached the "tails " in "tailed pepper”. Kabab Chini is a culinary spice. The odor of tail pepper is agreeable and aromatic. The taste is pungent, slightly bitter, acrid and persistent
Botanical Name : Piper cubeba
English Name : Tailed Pepper, java pepper, cubeb
Tamil Name : valmilaku, kanakamilaku, வால்மிளகு
Hindi Name : कबाब चीनी / Kabab-chini
Malayalam Name : Val-milaku
Telugu Name : halava-miriyalu, toka-miriyalu
Botanical Name : Piper cubeba
English Name : Tailed Pepper, java pepper, cubeb
Tamil Name : valmilaku, kanakamilaku, வால்மிளகு
Hindi Name : कबाब चीनी / Kabab-chini
Malayalam Name : Val-milaku
Telugu Name : halava-miriyalu, toka-miriyalu
Arabic : Kababa (كبابة), Kabâbah, Hhabb El’arûs, Kabaaba
Assamese : Kakkol, Kababcheni
Armenian : Hendkapeghpegh
Bangladesh : Kabab Chini
Belarusian : Lavanski Perac
Bengali : Kabab Chini, Ki’ubēba (কিউবেব),Kahabcbini, Sugandhamaricha
Brazil : Pimenta-Cubeba
Bulgarian : Kubeba
Burmese : K r wayy see (ကရဝေးသီး)
Chinese : Bi Cheng Qie, Cheng Qie, Bi Cheng Qie
Czech : Pepřovník Dlouhý, Pepřovník Kubeba
Danish : Cubeberpeber, Kubeber, Kubeber-Peber
Dhivehi : Kabbaabu (ކައްބާބު)
Dutch : Cubebe, Cubebepeper, Staartpeper
Eastonian : Kubeebapipar
English : Cubeb pepper, Java pepper, Javanese peppercorn, West African black pepper, cubeb, Jawa peppercorn, Jawanese pepper, Tailed pepper
Esperanto : Kubebo
Estonian : Kubeebapipar
Farsi : Kubabah
French : Cubèbe, Poivre À Queue, Poivre De Java, Poivrier Cubèbe, Quibebes, cubèche, embebe
German : Javanischer Pfeffer, Kubebenpfeffer, Kubeben-Pfeffer, Schwanzpfeffer, Stielpfeffer, Stiel-Pfeffer, Cubebe, Jawanischer Pfeffer
Greek : Koubeba
Gujarati : Tadamari , Chanakabab, Chinikabab
Hindi : Cubab-Chinee (कबाबचीनी), Kabab Chini, Sheetal Chini
Hungarian : Jávai bors
Ido : Kubebo
Indonesia : Kemukus, Temukus, Rinu Katencar, Rinu Caruluk, Cabé jawa, Kamukus, tjabe djawa
Italian : Cubebe, Pepe A Coda
Japanese : Kubeba (クベバ), Kubebu, Hitchouka (ヒッチョウカ)
Javanese : Kemukus
Kannada : Gantamenasu, Chanakabab, Chinikabab
Kashmiri : Kushfal, Kababchini
Korean : Chaba Huchu, Jaba Huchu, Kubepu, Kyubebu, Philjunggadongul, Pilchingga
Kurdish : Kubêba
Lithuanian : Kubebos Pipirai
Macedonian : Crniot Piper
Maithali : Kaba-Chini
Malay : Lada berekor, Kemukus, Temukus
Malaysia : Lada Berkor, Kemukus, Kemungkus, Cabai Berekor, Lada Ekor
Malayalam : Vaalmilagu, Cheenamulaku, Takkolam, Valmulaku
Mandarin : Bi cheng qie
Marathi : Kankol
Nepali : Ghanda Maric, Kabaab Chiinii, Thulo Pipla
Norwegian : Kubebapepper
Oriya : Kabachin, Kabab Chini
Pakistan : Dhumkimirch, Kavabchini
Polish : Pieprz Kubeba, kubeba
Portuguese : Cubeba, pimenta-cubeba, betre, betris, bétis, pimenta-de-rabo
Punjabi : Kababchini, Sardchini
Romanian : Piper De Cubebe
Russian : Dikij Perets (Дикий перец), Kubeba, Yavanskij Perets (Яванский перец), Perets Kubebe (Перец кубеба)
Sanskrit : Kankola, Kakkola, Kankolaka, Takkola, Koraka, Kolaka, Kashphala, Sheetalchini
Serbian : Biber Krupan, Biber Krupni
Slovak : Kubéba, Piepor Kubébový
Slovenian : Poper Kubeba
Spanish : Cubeba
Swedish : Kubebapeppar
Tamil : Chinamilagu, Sinamilagu, Valmilaku (வால்மிளகு)
Telegu : Chalavamiriyaalu, Tokamiriyalu
Thai : Prik Hang
Tibetan : Ka Ko La
Turkish : Hind Biberi, Hind Biberi Tohomu, Kebabe, Kebebe, Kebabiye Biber, Kebebiye, Kuyruklu Biber
Ukrainian : Peretsʹ kubeba (Перець кубеба)
Urdu : Kabab Chini, Dhumkimirch, Kavabchini
Vietnamese : Tiêu Thất
Yiddish : Kebebe
Common Names:
Cubeb pepper, Java pepper, Javanese peppercorn, West African black pepper, cubeb, Jawa peppercorn, Jawanese pepper, Tailed pepper, Cubeb, False Pepper, Javanese Pepper
About Toka-miriyalu (cubeb):-
Cubeb or tailed pepper is a plant cultivated for its essential oil and fruit with strong fragrance. Cubebs are of carefully dried berries, which are similar to black pepper in appearance, but with stalks attached the "tails " in "tailed pepper”. Kabab Chini is a culinary spice. The odor of tail pepper is agreeable and aromatic. The taste is pungent, slightly bitter, acrid and persistent.
Health benefits of Cubeb pepper
Cubeb or followed pepper is a plant developed for its fundamental oil and natural product with solid aroma. Cubebs are of painstakingly dried berries, which are like dark pepper by all accounts, however with stalks connected the "tails " in "followed pepper". Kabab Chini is a culinary zest. The smell of tail pepper is pleasing and fragrant. The taste is sharp, marginally harsh, bitter and determined.
1.Provocative sicknesses of the urinary lot
Because of its calming impact, Cubeb pepper was customarily utilized for diseases of the urogenital lot (kidney irritations, bladder catarrh, and ureter contaminations, prostate and uterine aggravations).
2. Gastritis and digestion
Cubeb peppers are likewise used to treat gastritis or to fortify the gastrointestinal parcel. Cubeb pepper advances stomach related action by invigorating salivation and the creation of gastric juices. Cubeb is particularly powerful subsequent to eating high-fat and difficult to process dinners.
3. Respiratory conditions and chronic bronchitis.
Indian people medication (Ayurveda) perceives the bodily fluid dissolving properties of this well established therapeutic plant. Cubeb pepper stays in dynamic use in Ayurveda today as a hack suppressant for gentle bronchitis, pestering hack, and for the most part to address respiratory indications.
4. Influenza
This plant seed is utilized as a virus medication for children. Pound 1 lesser galangal and 9 cubeb seeds, blend in with a little water. Apply this glue to child's body.
5. Defeat weariness
To build body energy, give some normal fixings from cubeb. Take 5 clove seeds, 5 cubeb seeds, 1 lemongrass, 4 lime leaves, ½ ginger rhizomes, a touch of cinnamon, ½ nutmegs, and a little sugar. Cut all fixings, and afterward overflow with 5 glasses of water. Stand by until the water is decreased to 2 glasses. Strain and drink when the water is still warm, 3 times each day.
6. Mouth Odor
Cubeb is extremely sweet-smelling and has germicide properties so it is has been utilized for dental issues for a long time and it is especially exceptionally helpful for halitosis (mouth scent). You can peruse the exploration that demonstrates this utilization here.
7. Fever medicine
Assuming you are searching for a characteristic fever cure, the cubeb is the correct decision. Innate substance in sound seeds is incredible to decrease body heat when the fever comes.
8. Medication for a migraine
Defeat the torment in your mind by utilizing the cubeb. Seeds can fix cerebral pains, wooziness, and different indications like migraines or a headache.
9. Normal mitigating
Irritation of your body can be overwhelmed with cubeb. This seed has a characteristic calming capacity, which is a wellbeing capacity that can mitigate irritation in your body and diminish the agony brought about by the aggravation.
10. Cold and Cough
Cubeb is probably the best fixing to take during cold and hack and in any event, during gentle fevers as it has hostile to pyretic properties. We take it as tea alongside sacred basil and turmeric powder. It is extremely alleviating to drink when we experience the ill effects of cold and it additionally mitigates migraine.
Ayurvedic Health benefits of Cubeb :
- Asthma: Take some pieces of Cubeb. Put in a cigarette paper. Smoke once a day.
- Bronchitis: Inhale the smoke of cubeb once a day.
- Hay Fever: Burn some Cubeb pieces. Breathing in the smoke.
- Cough: Take some Cubeb. Roast and powder them. Have a pinch with honey or lukewarm water thrice a day.
- Sore Throat: Roast some Cubeb. Powder them. Take a pinch with honey twice a day.
- Hoarseness: Powder the some Cubeb. Mix a pinch in a cup of hot milk and take it every night.
- Indigestion: Soak half teaspoon Cubeb in a glass of warm water for 5 minutes. Have twice a day.
- Stomach Diseases: Make infusion of Cubeb. Take twice or thrice a day. OR add 5 drops of Cubeb oil on a sugar cube. Eat once a day.
- Toothache: Add 5 to 10 drops of oil in a glass of lukewarm water. Swish twice a day.
- Bad breathe: Take a glass of slightly warm water. Add 5 drops of Cubeb oil. Swish with it twice or thrice a day. OR make infusion of Cubeb. Swish with it.
- Vaginal Discharge: Take 25 gram Cubeb. Soak in One liter water for half an hour. Use it as douche.
- Gum Disease: Grind 1 cup each of the bark of Acacia Nilotica and Azadirachta Indica. Add 1 tablespoon each of powdered Cubeb, Long Pepper and Rock Salt. Use after Every meal as a tooth powder.
- Constipation: Grind Carom, Asafoetida, Cardamom, and Cubeb separately. Extract one cup Bitter Apple juice. Take 1/4 teaspoon powder of each herb. Mix all in juice. Add rock salt according to your taste. Drink half in the morning and half at night for 7 days. (Caution: Excess may cause Vomiting and Nausea.)
- Bronchitis: Take equal quantity of Cubeb and Cinnamon. Powder them. Put a pinch of powder in a glass of water and leave it for 5 minutes. Drink it daily.
- Cough: Take a pinch of each, Cubeb powder and Cinnamon powder. Soak in a glass of water for 2 to 3 minutes. Have it once a day.
- Bronchitis: Take equal quantity of Cubeb, Galangal, Licorice and Long Pepper. Grind them together. Boil two teaspoon powder in a cup of water. Add two teaspoon Honey and have lukewarm daily.
- Cough: Grind equal quantity of Cubeb, Galangal, Licorice and Long Pepper. Take one teaspoon with two teaspoon Honey daily.
- Cold: Grind equal quantity of Solanum Xanthocarpum and Cubeb roots. Boil 2 pinches powder in one cup water. Add one teaspoon Honey. Drink lukewarm once a day.
- Cough: Take one pinch each of Solanum Xanthocarpum roots powder and Cubeb powder. Boil in one cup water. Add one teaspoon Honey. Have it lukewarm.
- Phlegm: Powder Solanum Xanthocarpum and Cubeb roots. Take 2 pinches of the prepared powder with Honey for 3 days
- Menstrual Disorders: Mix equal quantity of Indian Snake root powder with Cubeb powder. Take quarter tsp. of the mixture twice a day. (Attention: Do not consume if you are Pregnant.)
- Snake Bite: Mix root powder of Indian Snake root with Cubeb powder. Take 2 tsp. of the mixture and add half tsp. Salt. Apply it over bitten area. You may use it internally.
- Cough: Pound cubeb in a mortar and pestle very finely. Take 2 pinches of the pounded mixture mixed along with honey.
- Dandruff: For dandruff, we make a hair oil using unrefined sesame oil, fenugreek leaves, cubeb and haritaki, very effective for treating all scalp infections. It can use as a pre shampoo treatment.
- Mouth Wash: For the mouth wash, boil 1/4 tsp. of pounded cubeb along with 1 small broken Ceylon cinnamon and a cup of water for a few minutes and strain. Use it as a mouth wash.
- Mild Fever & Indigestion: For treating mild fevers and indigestion, take a handful of holy basil leaves and slightly pound them along with 1/8 tsp of cubeb. Take the pounded mixture, 1/4 tsp. organic turmeric powder and a cup of water in a bowl and boil till it reduces in half, strain and add honey to taste.
- Piles: Take 1/2 teaspoon of piper cubeb powder, twice a day with warm cup of milk. If constipated, use trihala churna.
- Dysuria, painful urination: Take 1/2 teaspoon of piper cubeb powder with misri/sugar candy, in morning and evening.
Traditional uses and benefits of Cubeb pepper
- Cubeb pepper is a popular medicinal plant which has been extensively used in Europe since the middle Ages, as well as in many other countries, including Arabia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Morocco in traditional medicine.
- Cubeb berry is considered a carminative, diuretic, expectorant, stimulant, stomachic, anti-asthmatic, irritant, sedative, anti-dysenteric and antiseptic.
- It acts particularly on mucous tissues, and arrests excessive discharges, especially from the urethra.
- Cubeb berry also has a local stimulating effect on the mucous membranes of the urinary and respiratory tracts.
- It exercises an influence over the urinary apparatus, rendering the urine of deeper color.
- It has been used in the treatment of gonorrhea, gleet, leucorrhoea, chronic bladder diseases, acute prostatitis bronchial affections, dysentery and in spermatorrhea.
- In England, various preparations of cubeb including oleum cubebae (oil of cubeb), tinctures, fluid extracts, oleo-resin compounds, and vapors, were employed for throat complaints.
- Cubeb was commonly included in lozenges designed to alleviate bronchitis, exploiting the antiseptic and expectoral properties of the drug.
- Most important therapeutic application of cubeb, however, was in treating gonorrhea.
- Cubeb berry has been shown to be effective in easing the symptoms of chronic bronchitis.
- Cubeb paste is used as a mouthwash, and dried cubeb is used internally for oral and dental diseases, loss of voice, halitosis, fevers, and cough in India.
- It is also used for digestive ailments and is effective in treating dysentery.
- Herb has often been related with the reproductive system and has been used to treat cystitis, leucorrhea, urethritis, and prostate infections.
- Unani physicians use a paste of cubeb berries externally of the male and female genitals to intensify sexual pleasure during coitus in India.
- Indian physicians and Arab physician during the Middle Ages use cubeb berries as a main ingredient in an aphrodisiac remedy for infertility.
- Cubeb was used in many medicinal mixtures administered as tonics, indigestion mixtures and pick-me-ups after childbirth and for rheumatism in Malaysia.
- It is also recommended for external application.
- Cubeb berries have also been used for the treatment of abdominal pain, asthma, diarrhea, dysentery, gonorrhea, enteritis and syphilis in Indonesia.
- Cubeb is used in traditional medicine for its warming properties in China.
- Cubeb is one of the six fine herbs in bzang po drug in Tibet.
- It provides relief from painful contraction of the muscle. Thus, it efficiently treats Muscle Cramp.
- It normalizes the digestive functions and strengthens it up, thus, prevents Digestive Problems and Indigestion.
- It expels mucus from the respiratory tract and avoids Respiratory Diseases.
- It relieves Cough.
- It potentially cures Asthma conditions.
- It is a beneficiary remedy to treat Erectile Dysfunction.
- Fruit has an expectorant effect that counters Bronchitis and Laryngitis.
- It is also consumed to remove bad breath from the mouth.
- It serves as a stimulant to protect the body from Leucorrhoea.
- It has a Carminative attribute, which expels the gas from the Intestines and Stomach.
- The Anti-inflammatory property of this herb rapidly heals from the Inflammation within the body.
- It has an Antiseptic attribute that prevents the growth of Microorganisms within the body.
- Aphrodisiac action of this herb increases the libido in both male and female.
- It bears the Anti-emetic characteristics that beneficially work against Vomiting and Nausea.
- Cubeb Tea may help in the treatment of bronchitis and other related respiratory ailments as it is known to help thin mucus.
- Cubeb Tea may help fight infections in the urinary tract.
- Cubeb Tea may help relieve flatulence and bloating of the digestive tract.
- Cubeb Tea is said to be a remedy against infertility. It is also said to help enhance the pleasures of the sexual intercourse.
- During the middle Ages, cubeb was one of the most valuable spices in Europe and today its culinary importance has been surpassed by medicinal uses.
- In powdered form cubeb was used as a seasoning for meat and in sauces.
- One common medieval recipe was for sauce sarcenes which is composed of almond milk and spices including cubeb.
- During the fourteenth century, a vinegar referred to as Ocet Kubebowy was infused with cubeb, cumin and garlic and used for meat marinades In Poland.
- Cubeb was often candied and eaten whole as an aromatic confectionery.
- Cubeb is still used to enhance the flavor of savory soups.
- In Moroccan cuisine, cubeb is relished in savory dishes and pastries like mark outs and the renowned spice mixture Ras el hanout a popular mixture of herbs and spices that is used across the Middle East and North Africa.
- Ras el hanout is used in pastilla , the Moroccan squab/young pigeon, and almond pastry, is sometimes rubbed on meats, and incorporated into couscous or rice.
- Cubeb is used as a spice to impart flavor to food in south and Southeast Asia for example in gulés (curries) in Indonesia.
- It is very popular in West African cooking.
- They are sold whole and should be crushed or ground before use in cooking.
- Cubebol an original compound from cubeb oil is traded by a Swiss company as a cooling and refreshing agent and used in various products like chewing gum, drinks, sorbets, gelatin-based confectioneries and even tooth paste.
- Cubeb is also used to flavor alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and drinks.
- Bombay Sapphire gin is flavored with cubeb and grains of paradise.
- Pertsovka, dark-brown, Russian pepper vodka with a fiery taste, is prepared from infusion of cubeb and capsicum peppers.
- As an aromatic confectionery, cubeb was often candied and eaten whole.
Other facts :
Cubeb is additionally utilized for its aroma in cleansers and aromas, and can likewise be found as an enhancing in tooth glue and tobacco (cubeb cigarettes) other than food.
In 2000, Shiseido Cosmetics Company in Japan licensed a line of hostile to maturing items containing recipes produced using a few spices, including cubeb.
Cubeb berries are utilized in affection drawing sorcery spells by specialists of hoodoo, an African-American type of people wizardry.
Precautionary measures
Taken in unnecessary dosages, cubeb berry can cause sickness, heaving, consuming agony, grumbling and cleansing.
It might cause skin rashes, Nausea and cerebral pain.
Keep away from use if having stomach related plot aggravation.
Results may incorporate migraines, tension, heaving, urinary plot disturbance, kidney and bladder agony, loose bowels and skin rashes.
Individuals experiencing nephritis (kidney sicknesses) ought to never utilize cubeb.
