Plant Details

Accepted name:

Piper methysticum G.Forst. [Piperaceae]

Source of taxonomy and confidence:

World Checklist: unpublished records ( )

Information about this plant:

Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ava	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
ava root	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
ava-ava	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
awa	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
bari	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
gea	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
gi	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
intoxicating pepper	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
kao	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
kava	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
kava kava	Other	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
kava pepe	Other	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995)
kava pepper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
kava-kava	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
kava-kava root	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
kava-kava-wurzelstock	Other	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
kava-kawa	Other	World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
kavaka	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
kavakava	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
kavapipar	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
kawa	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
kawa kawa	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
kawa pepper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
kawa-kawa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
kawapfeffer	Other	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
keu	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
koniak	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
malohu	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
maluk	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
maori kava	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
meruk	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
milik	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
oyo	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
piper methysticum	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
piper methysticum root and rhizome	Other	U.S. Pharmacopoeia 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 Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
rauschpfeffer	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
rhizoma de kava-kava	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
rhizoma piperis methystici	Pharmaceutical	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
waghi	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
wati	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
yagona	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)
yanggona	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
yangona	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
yaqona	Other	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (2004)

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

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

synonym
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:
Piper methysticum	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007)
Piper methysticum Forst.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Piper methysticum Forst. f.	Fijian Medicinal Plants (Cambie & Ash, 1994) Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Piper methysticum Forster	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Piper methysticum Forster f.	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Medicinal plants in South Pacific (WHO, 1998) Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
Piper methysticum G. Forst	Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998)
Piper methysticum G. Forst.	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (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 (WHO-UMC, 2019)

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