scientific name:- piper nigrum Family:- piperaceae major organic chemical compound present in the pepper is piperine . Medicinal properties: - Anticarcinogenic, anti inflammatory, cholesterol-lowering, immune enhancer, antioxidant, antipyretic, antimicrobial, anti ulcer, antiperiodic. Medicinal uses:- Pepper helps our digestive system works properly, improves appetite, cure cold, cough, disease of the throat, intermittent fever, dysentery worms and piles. Pepper used as pain reliever because of its analgesic property. It is used as a fever reducer because of its antipyretic property. In ayurvedic medicine, paper is mixed with ghee to treat external problem, nosal congestion, sinusitis, skin eruptions and epilepsy. Pepper promotes the rapid absorption of certain chemical from the gastro-intestinal protecting them from broke down by chemicals in the intestinal lumen and by enzymes that occur in the cells lining . Pepper has a high degree of the stimulating and carminative pr...