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 Cubeb Essential
Oil ProfileCubeb (Piper cubeba), or tailed pepper, is a plant in genus Piper, cultivated for its fruit and essential oil. It is mostly grown in Java and Sumatra, hence sometimes called Java pepper. Commercial cubebs consist of the dried berries, similar in appearance to black pepper, but with stalks attached — the "tails" in "tailed pepper". The dried pericarp is grayish-brown, or black and wrinkled. The seed, when present, is hard, white and oily. The odor of cubebs is described as agreeable and aromatic. The taste, pungent, acrid, slightly bitter and persistent. |
| Botanical Name: | Piper cubeba L. |
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| Family: | Piperaceae |
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| Synonyms: | Cubeba officinalis Cubeba, tailed pepper, cubeb berry, false pepper. |
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| Parts Used: | Unripe but full grown, sun-dried berries. |
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| Extraction Method: | Steam Distillation, |
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| Colour: | Pale greenish to bluish yellow. |
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| Consistency: | thin |
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| Aroma Description: | Warm woody-spicy, slightly camphoraceous |
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| Perfume note: | Top |
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| Historical Uses: | Traditionally used for treatment of genito-urinary infections, such as gonorrhea, cystitis, urethritis. It has also been used for digestive and respiratory problems. |
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| Modern Uses: | Often recommended for respiratory complaints such as bronchitis, catarrh. congestion, coughs, sinusitus, and throat infections; for digestive problems like flatulence, indigestion, piles, and sluggish digestion; and also cystitis, leucorrhea, urethritis. Used in aromatic, spicy, and meat formulations ; in aromatic compounds for cosmetic perfumery |
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| Cautions: | Cubeb Essential Oil is non-toxic, non-irritant, non-sensitizing. |
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| Main Constituents, % |
| β-cubebene |
11 |
| Copaene |
10.4 |
| Cubebol |
10 |
| δ-cadinene |
8.8 |
| α-cubebene |
7.1 |
| <γ-humulene |
4.9 |
| Sabinene |
4.6 |
| Alloaromadendrene |
4.2 |
| Caryophylene |
3.7 |
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