Jambu assu. Piper jaborandi.

Jambu Assu. Piper Jaborandi.—The root of Piper Jaborandi Veil. (Fam. Piperaceae) is one of the Pipers of Brazil, which is used by the natives as a sudorific, a diuretic, and a febrifuge. It is said to contain an alkaloid and a pungent oleoresin. It has no botanical, and probably no medicinal, relation with pilocarpus.

The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.