Plant Details

Accepted name:: Piper methysticum G.Forst. [Piperaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ava	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
ava root	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
ava-ava	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
awa	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
bari	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
gea	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
gi	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
intoxicating pepper	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
kao	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kava	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kava kava	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
kava pepper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016)
kava-kava	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kava-kava rhizoma	Other	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
kava-kava root	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kava-kava-wurzelstock	Other	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
kavaka	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016)
kavakava	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kavapipar	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kawa	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kawa kawa	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kawa pepper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kawa-kawa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016)
kawapfeffer	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
keu	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
koniak	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
malohu	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
maluk	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
maori kava	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
marquesan	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
meruk	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
milik	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
oyo	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
piper methysticum	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
piper methysticum root and rhizome	Other	U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016)
piperis methystici rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
racine de poivre enivrant	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
rauschpfeffer	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
rhizoma de kava-kava	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
rhizoma piperis methystici	Pharmaceutical	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
waghi	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
wati	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
yagona	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
yanggona	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
yangona	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
yaqona	Other	U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root, rhizome	dried root and rhizome	U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016)
Rhizome	Peeled dry rhizome	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Root, Rhizome		WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019)
rhizome		WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
root, rhizome		WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
rhizome	dried rhizome	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
rhizome, root		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

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

Macropiper methysticum (G.Forst.) Miq. Syst. Piperac.: 217 (1843).
Methysticum esculentum Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 85 (1838).
Methysticum methysticum (G.Forst.) A.Lyons Pl. Nam.: 247 (1900).
Piper inebrians Bertero ex Miq. Comm. Phytogr.: 36 (1840), not validly publ.
Piper spurium J.R.Forst. ex Miq. Comm. Phytogr.: 36 (1840), not validly publ.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Macropiper methysticum (G.Forst.) Miq.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Piper methystichum FORST. F.	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Piper methysticum	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Piper methysticum Forst.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
Piper methysticum Forst. f.	Fijian Med. Pl. (Cambie & Ash, 1994) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Piper methysticum Forster	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Piper methysticum Forster f.	Med. Pl. in S Pacific (WHO, 1998) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Piper methysticum G. Forst	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Piper methysticum G. Forst.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Piper methysticum G. Forster	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
Piper methysticum G.Forst.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)

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