Materia Medica: Long and Black Pepper
Piper longum
Pipiling/ pi pi ling (tib.)
Long Pepper (engl.)
One of the ‘Three Hot Substances’ (tsha ba gsum), along with black pepper and dried ginger, pipiling is a warm and hot natured substance, used to treat cold natured (grang ba) disorders.
It is a common primary or supporting ingredient in many formulas, such as Piling 3 (pi ling gsum pa).
Taste & Potency: Warm, spicy and sweet
Plant part: Fruit
Preparation: Dry in a warm location
Form: powder, or crushed
Usage: intake with soup, tea, food
Dosage: 2/4 gm, per day, if used singly
Duration: 7/21 days
Function:
- R (rlung) disorders combined with B
(bad kan) - Asthma
- Increases digestive heat (me drod)
- Lungs disorders
- Improves blood circulation
Caution:
People with K i.e. tripa or bile in english (tib. mkhris pa) should use less.
Piper nigrum
Phowari or nalesham/ pho ba ri na le sham (tib.)
Black Pepper (engl.)
One of the ‘Three Hot Substances’ (tsha ba gsum), along with long pepper and dried ginger, black pepper is a warm and spicy natured medicine used for curing cold natured (grang ba) disorders.
It is a common primary ingredient in many formulas, such as Pori 4 (pho ris bzhi pa), and very often used as a secondary ingredient in many TTM herbal formulas.
Taste & Potency: Warm, Spicy
Plant part: Fruit
Preparation: Dry in a warm location
Form: Powder, crushed, oil
Usage: Intake with tea, soup, food, alcohol, oil – both internally and externally
Dosage: 2/3g per day
Duration: 7/ 30days
Function:
- Cold disorders, purges, warms up
- B and cold imbalances, stops coughing
- Dysfunction of liver
- Tonifies stomach
- Increases body heat
Caution:
People with K i.e. tripa or bile in english (tib. mkhris pa) should use less.
B … Bad kan
K … mKhris pa
R … rLung
Article adapted from:
The Sorig Materia Medica
Part 1: Root Tantra Substances
Written by Dr Nida Chenagtsang
First Edition 2010 by Dr Tam Nguyen
Updated Jan 2011 by
Eréne Lejeune and Eric Rosenbush
&
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langer_Pfeffer
by Docku – Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7089281
