UCHITHI

UCHITHI:
Botanical Name: Piper longum
Place- Rare in valley and found in hills areas of Manipur.
Parts Used:
1: Fruit .
@Medicinal information
*Disease Name: Tonsillitis, Night Blindness, Fever, Chronic Bronchitis,Pharyngitis, Pyrrhoea(nai chaba/yari pumba), Obesity.
*Uses: The unripe fruits are alterative(medication or treatment to alter the processes of nutrition) and are used as tonic. The fruit are also used in respiratory diseases, as counter-irritant, for muscular inflammation and analgesic(pain killer), as snuff(sor honjinba) in coma and drowsiness, carminative(puk nungsit kaba hanthahanba), cholagogue( a medicinal agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system, purging it downward) in obstruction in bile duct and gall bladder and as an emmenagogue (herbs which stimulate blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus) and as abortifacient (substance that induces abortion) and anthelmintic(agent that expel parasitic worms from the body).