Tailed Pepper (Valmulaku)

Description

About the Product

Tailed pepper is a plant in the genus Piper that is grown for the fruit and essential oil it produces. Because it is primarily grown in Java and Sumatra, it is also known as Java pepper. The fruits are picked before they ripen and dried with care. Commercial cubeb is made out of dried berries that look like black pepper but have stalks attached — hence the name “tailed pepper.” The wrinkled dried pericarp ranges in colour from greyish brown to black. The seed is oily, firm, and white. Cubeb has a pleasing and aromatic odour, as well as a pungent, acrid, slightly bitter, and long-lasting flavour. It’s been described as having an allspice flavour or a cross between allspice and black pepper flavour.

Uses

• The stem bark is used to treat coughs and colds, and the leaves are used to treat asthma, coughs, colds, indigestion, loss of appetite, and piles.