🌍African Traditional Medicine
Asante Pepper
Piper guineense
About Asante Pepper
Asante Pepper (Piper guineense) is a herb used in the African Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Digestive Issues, Respiratory Issues, and Arthritis. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Piper guineense is a West African species of Piper; the spice derived from its dried fruit is known as Ashanti pepper, Benin pepper, false cubeb, Guinea cubeb, and called locally kale, kukauabe, masoro, sasema, soro wisa, and uziza. It is a close relative of cubeb pepper and a relative of black pepper and long pepper. Unlike cubeb, which is large and spherical in shape, Ashanti pepper grains are prolate spheroids, smaller and smoother than Cubeb pepper
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal