A small percentage of cubebs is also commonly included in lozenges designed for use in bronchitis, in which the antiseptic and expectoral properties of the drug are useful.
Cubebs were formerly candied and eaten whole, or used ground as a seasoning for meat.
The odour of cubebs is agreeable and aromatic; the taste, pungent, acrid, slightly bitter and persistent.
A closely allied species, Piper Clusii, produces the African cubebs or West African black-pepper, the berry of which is smoother than that of common cubebs and usually has a curved pedicel.
The cubebs of pharmacy are produced by Piper Cubeba, a climbing woody shrub indigenous to south Borneo, Sumatra, Prince of Wales Island and Java.
As compared with copaiba in this connexion cubebs has the advantages of being less disagreeable to take and somewhat less likely to disturb the digestive apparatus in prolonged administration.
Certain extracts prepared with ether, as the fluid extracts of cubebs and pepper in the Ph.
Dose, 10 to 15 drops, in the usual cases in which cubebs in substance is given.
Cubebs (bruised or ground in a pepper-mill), 1 lb.
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