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Benefits : *Long pepper is used to improve appetite and digestion, as well as treat stomachache, heartburn, indigestion, intestinal gas, diarrhea, and cholera. * It is also used for lung problems including asthma, bronchitis, and cough. *The long pepper has been used for centuries in Mediterranean, African, Indian, and Indonesian cooking , although it has almost fallen into obscurity in the past few hundred years. *The long pepper comes from a flowering vine with large catkin flowers. Within each flower are small black spikes that are the actual pepper. * The taste is very similar to regular black pepper, and it is a relative of the species piper nigrum, but with a much hotter taste and an almost earthy, sweet overtone. * Ingredient in herbal medicine includes adding long pepper with ginger and black pepper in a popular base ingredient in Ayurvedic medicine called Trikatu. * Indian long pepper (Pippali)is used to improve appetite and digestion, as well as treat stomachache, heartburn, indigestion, intestinal gas, diarrhea, and cholera.