Plant Details

Accepted name:: Piper cubeba L.f. [Piperaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
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Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aranukam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arenu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arenugam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arenukam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aripalugam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aripalukam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
atturati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
autaciyamilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
baala menasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
balamenasu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
balmenasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
calavamiriyalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
caluvamiriyamu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
catavikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
catavikamilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
catuttam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cavika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cevviyam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chalava-miriyalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chalavamiriyalu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
chaluva-miriyalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chaluvamiriyaalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chanakabab	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
cheenamulaku	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
chinamunchi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chinikabab	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
chinimulaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cikkam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cinamilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cinamnnci	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cinamulagu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cinatiksna	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008)
cinatīkṣṇa	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
cinaviram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ciniamulaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cinorana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cinoṣaṇa	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
cubab chinie	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cubab-chinee	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
cubeb	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) ISO Catalogue (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
cubeb oil	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th Edn. (USP, 2008)
cubeb pepper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
cubeba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Medicinal Plant Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Plants of Econ. Importance (FAO, 1983) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
cubeba officinalis	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
cubebae fructus	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
cubebe	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
cubebe pepper	Other	Survey of Trad. Drugs Sold in Jordan (Lev, 2002) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
cubebs	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
cubèbe	Other	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
curamilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
curmilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gandha menasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gandha-menasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gandhamenasu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
gandhamunchi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gandhamunci	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
habb-ul-arus	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hima simire	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ilatai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ilepam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ittakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
java pepper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
ka ko la	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaapoorcheenee	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kabab chini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kabab-chini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kababah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kababcheni	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kababchim	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kababchini	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Medicinal Plant Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kababchini (kankol)	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kababsh	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kabachini	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kabacini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kabābeh	Other	Traditional Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
kahabchini	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kakkol	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kakkola	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008)
kanacam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanacamilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanakamilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kankol	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008)
kankol hinsimire	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kankola	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kankolaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kankolam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kankolika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
katturikai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaulakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaunti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kauntiriyacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kauntiriyam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kavinti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaṅkolaka	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kaṅkolikā	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kaṇkola (fruit)	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kaṇḍamiḷaku	Other	Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008)
kebabe	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
kebâb ṣînî	Other	Med. Pl. Yemen (Fleurentin et al., 1982)
kibabeh	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kubebapeppar	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
kubeben pfeffer	Other	Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009)
kubebenpfeffer	Other	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
kushfal	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
lankesa	Other	Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008)
laṅkēcam	Other	Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008)
macati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mara menasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maramenasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maricam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mayenam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mothi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nalvaci	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
oil of cubeb	Other	ISO Catalogue (2009)
oleoresin cubeb	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018-2019) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th Edn. (USP, 2008)
pimenta-cubeba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
pimpli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pipli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ponkam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
renuka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rin chen nyak	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
rin chen smyag	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
sardchini	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
seetalchini	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
sheetal-chini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sital-chini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sitalachini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
sugandhamaricha	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008)
sugandhamarichatai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sugandhamarichu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sugandhamuricha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
sungadha-muricha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tadamiri	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
tailed pepper	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
takkolam	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
takkolamilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
thokamiriyaalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
toka-miriyalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tokamiriyalau	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tokamiriyalu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
tokamiriyamulu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tsalavamiriyalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tulati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vaali milaku	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
vaalmilagu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
val milagu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
val-milaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
val-mulaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
valmilagu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
valmilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
valmilakukkoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
valmilgu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
valmulaku	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
vanmilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vālmiḷaku (fruit)	Other	Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008)
كبابه	Other	Traditional Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
རིན་ཆེན་སྨྱག །	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Fruit		Survey of Trad. Drugs Sold in Jordan (Lev, 2002)
Fructus		Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
Fruit		Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Fruit		Traditional Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Fruits		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
fruit	dried fruit	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018-2019)
fruit	oil	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th Edn. (USP, 2008)
fruit	dried fruit	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
fruit		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
fruit	mature, dried fruits	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
	oil	ISO Catalogue (2009)
fruit	tincture, vegetal drug, dry extract, fluid extract, essential oil, powdered drug	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
fruit		Med. Pl. Yemen (Fleurentin et al., 1982)
fruit	essential oil	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
Fruit		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
fruit	mature, dried fruit	Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cubeba officinalis Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 84 (1838).
Cubeba cubeba (L.f.) H.Karst. Ill. Repert. Pharm.-Med. Bot.: 478 (1886), not validly publ.
Cubeba segetum Miq. Syst. Piperac.: 304 (1843).
Piper cubeba f. cambodiana C.DC. in H.Lecomte (ed.), Fl. Indo-Chine 5: 91 (1910).
Piper cubeba var. parvifolium C.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(1): 341 (1869).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cubeba officinalis Miq.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Cubeba officinalis Rafin	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Piper cubeba	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Medicinal Plant Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Survey of Trad. Drugs Sold in Jordan (Lev, 2002) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Traditional Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Piper cubeba L.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018-2019) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th Edn. (USP, 2008) ISO Catalogue (2009) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med. Pl. Yemen (Fleurentin et al., 1982) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Piper cubeba L. f	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
Piper cubeba L. f.	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, Vol. 1 (2008)
Piper cubeba L.F.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Piper cubeba L.f.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Plants of Econ. Importance (FAO, 1983) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
Piper cubeba Linn.	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
Piper cubeba Linn.f.	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
Piper cubeba Linné	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)

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