Origin

Native to Moluccas, cultivated in Indonesia, also in India.

Action:

Similar to P. longum and P. nigrum. Fruits—stimulant, carminative; used in haemorrhoidal affections; as a tonic, afterchildbirth.

Roots—chewed or brewed in decoction for colic, dyspepsia and gastralgia.

Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p  492.