Overview
Piper marginatum is a medicinal plant from the Amazon rainforest; used to relieve pain, swelling and fever; it is haemostatic (substance used to stem internal bleeding), repellent, antibiotic and antifungal.
It has a strong licorice (anise) smell and can be used to treat skin infections.
Oils from this plant have strong cercaricidal (an agent lethal to cercaria) activity.
Constituents
Phenylpropanoids, and a new phenyloctanoid were isolated from Piper marginatum. The compounds: 3,4-methylenedioxy-1-(2E-octenyl)-benzene 2,6-dimethoxy-3,4-methylenedioxy- 1-(2-propenyl)-benzene, 1 -(1E-propenyl)-2,4,6-trimethoxybenzene: apiole; isoasarone. Croweacin (2-methoxy-3,4-methylenedioxyallylbenzene). 1-(1Z-propenyl)-2,4,6-trimethoxybenzene, 3-farnesyl-4-hydroxybenzoic acid, caryo-phylene oxide.
Dosage
Tincture: 1 - 3 ml (1 – 3 full droppers), daily.
Precaution
None.
Reference
Croweacin from Piper marginatum*¹
Bárbara Viviana de Oliveira Santos± Emidio V. L. Da-Cunha±, Maria Célia de Oliveira Chaves± and Alexander I. Gray‡
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W. N. White and C. D. Slater, J. Org. Chem., 26, 3631 (1961)
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