Peperomia Pellucida
(Peperomia Pellucida [L.] Kunth.)

Tribe: Piperaceae
Simplisia Name: Herba Peperomiae pellucidae

Description
Peperomia pellucida can be found growing wild in damp places or a little bit sheltered in less fertile areas, such as at the edge of the gutter, between rocks, crack cracked walls, steep walls, fields and yards. Plants from tropical America can be found from the lowlands to 1000 m above sea level. In areas not so dry.
This plant grows upright with 20-40 cm high. If a bit high, sometimes hanging. Round stems, 3-5 mm cross-section, branching, stems and leaves contain a lot of fluid, pale green. single leaves, stemmed, and where the turns. Wide leaf blade, shaped like a heart, a pointed tip, base curved, curved bone, the flat, 1-3 cm long, upper surface shiny, pale green, the bottom color younger. Flowers arranged in a series of multiple-shaped grains with 1-6 cm long, out of the tip of the leaf stalk or armpits, green. Fruit round, small with a diameter less than 1 mm, spire, constructed like a pepper, brown. Fibrous roots are not deep.
Peperomia pellucida can be eaten raw.

The nature and Benefits
Spicy taste, is cool.

Chemical Ingredients
Contains alkaloids, tannins, saponins, polyphenols, calcium oxalate, fats and essentials oil.

Part used
All the medicinal plants.

How to Use
For drugs taken, boiled fresh herbs 15-20 g.
For external use only, minced fresh herbs to taste until smooth. Paste the sick place, such as abscesses, boils, acne, and dermatitis.