Piper latifolium

Names and Synonyms

Scientific Names

Accepted name

Distribution

This plant exhibits a wide distribution across several key regions of the Pacific Ocean. In the Southwestern Pacific, its presence is documented on the Santa Cruz Islands and throughout Vanuatu. Moving into the South-Central Pacific, the species can also be found within the Cook Islands. Furthermore, its range extends to the Marquesas Islands in the same central region. Finally, the plant is known to inhabit the Society Islands, completing its broad geographical spread.

Sources: The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP)

Plant Parts

Piper latifolium has 2 reported plant parts identified across 11 scientific publications and several other databases that are studied for medicinal purposes. The most consistently reported plant part include root, rhizome.

Root

1. Biomedical & environmental mass spectrometry
2. Planta medica
3. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity
4. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
5. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Rhizome

1. Planta medica
2. Psychopharmacology
3. Chemico-biological interactions
4. Annals of hepatology

Chemicals

Piper latifolium has 108 reported phytochemicals identified across 11 scientific publications and several other databases. The most consistently reported chemicals include Methysticin, Yangonin, Dihydromethysticin, Desmethoxyyangonin, kavain.

Methysticin

1. Dr. Duke
2. Planta medica
3. Drug metabolism and disposition: the biological fate of chemicals
4. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
5. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)

Yangonin

1. Dr. Duke
2. Planta medica
3. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
4. Journal of pharmaceutical sciences
5. European journal of pharmacology

Dihydromethysticin

1. Dr. Duke
2. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
3. Planta medica
4. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
5. European journal of pharmacology

Desmethoxyyangonin

1. Dr. Duke
2. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
3. Planta medica
4. Journal of pharmaceutical sciences
5. Pharmacopsychiatry

kavain

1. Planta medica
2. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
3. Natural product research
4. Psychopharmacology
5. Journal of ethnopharmacology

Dihydrokavain

1. Planta medica
2. Psychopharmacology
3. Journal of separation science
4. Chemico-biological interactions
5. Journal of ethnopharmacology

Dihydrokawain

1. Dr. Duke
2. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
3. Journal of pharmaceutical sciences
4. European journal of pharmacology
5. Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

Kawain

1. Dr. Duke
2. Journal of pharmaceutical sciences
3. European journal of pharmacology
4. Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology
5. PloS one

Kava

1. Drug metabolism reviews
2. Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie
3. Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)

Kavapyrone

1. Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie
2. Die Naturwissenschaften
3. Alternative medicine review : a journal of clinical therapeutic

Activities

Piper latifolium has 163 reported activities identified across 11 scientific publications and several other databases. The most consistently reported activities include Anxiolytic, Sedative, Psychoactive, Analgesic, Anesthetic.

Anxiolytic

1. Dr. Duke
2. British journal of clinical pharmacology
3. Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy
4. The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
5. Human psychopharmacology

Sedative

1. Dr. Duke
2. Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
3. Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services
4. Complementary therapies in medicine
5. Chemico-biological interactions

Psychoactive

1. Dr. Duke
2. Journal of pharmaceutical sciences
3. Pharmacopsychiatry
4. The American Journal of dermatopathology
5. Hawaii medical journal

Analgesic

1. Dr. Duke
2. Alternative medicine review : a journal of clinical therapeutic
3. Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology
4. Neurotoxicology and teratology

Anesthetic

1. Dr. Duke
2. Alternative medicine review : a journal of clinical therapeutic
3. Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services

Hepatotoxic

1. Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
2. Annals of hepatology
3. The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse

Anticancer

1. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM
2. Nutrients

Antidepressant

1. Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
2. Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

Antinociceptive

1. Dr. Duke
2. Natural product research

Antioxidant

1. Dr. Duke
2. Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity

Preparations