cubeb

cubeb
The dried unripe, nearly full-grown fruit of Piper cubeba (family Piperaceae), a climbing plant of the West Indies, used as stimulant, carminative, and local irritant; c. oil has been used as a mild urinary antiseptic. [Ar. and Hindu, kababa]

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cu·beb 'kyü-.beb n the dried unripe berry of a tropical shrub (Piper cubeba) of the pepper family that was formerly used medicinally when powdered for its effect on mucous membranes esp. as a urinary antiseptic and to treat chronic bronchitis

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cu·beb (kuґbəb) [L. cubeba; Arabic kabāba] 1. a plant of the species Piper cubeba. 2. the dried, unripe, almost fully grown fruit of P. cubeba, which contains 10 to 18 per cent volatile oil, cubebin, resins, fat, and wax. It has stimulant, local irritant, and mild urinary antiseptic properties. Ingestion of high dosages causes irritation of the kidneys and urinary tract, sometimes with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, skin eruptions, and other symptoms; in severe poisonings, death from respiratory failure may occur.

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