Medicines
Peruvian mastic
Category: Medicines - plant based
Type
Voluntary
Introduction and description
Peruvian pepper - Schinus molle, also known as American pepper, Peruvian peppertree, escobilla, false pepper, molle del Peru, pepper tree, peppercorn tree, Californian pepper tree, pirul and Peruvian mastic is an evergreen tree that grows to 15 meters (50 feet).
It is native to the Peruvian Andes. The bright pink fruits of Schinus molle are often sold as "pink peppercorns" although S. molle is unrelated to true pepper
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Related observations
Healing observations
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Anticancer (gastric) activity 018459
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antidysentric activity 018372
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antiedemic activity 018443