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	Witas Ancient Herbal
		Commercial Cubebs are often adulterated with other fruits containing a volatile oil, but with very different properties.
		of Cubebs to 1 pint of water is sometimes used as an injection in discharge from the vagina.
		Cubebs should be freshly prepared as the oil evaporates; the powder is often adulterated with pimento.
	groups.msn.com /WitasAncientHerbal/cubeb.msnw (348 words)

	Birds and Nature: Cubebs
		Cubebs were known to Arabian physicians as early as the ninth century, who employed them as a diuretic in kidney troubles.
		Cubebs are cultivated in special plantations or with coffee for which they provide shade by spreading from the trees which serve as their support.
		Cubeb cigarettes are used in the treatment of nasal catarrh.
	www.birdnature.com /apr1901/cubebs.html (396 words)

	Herbal Descriptions - Cubeb Berry - Piper cubeba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cubeb Berry, also called Java Pepper, Tailed Pepper, and False Pepper, is a spicy berry native to Java and Borneo in Indonesia, which is now cultivated in several tropical areas, including southeast Africa.
		Cubeb Berry is also used for its fragrance in soaps and perfumes, and can also be found as a flavoring in foods and tobacco.
		Cubeb Berry is considered a carminative, diuretic, expectorant, stimulant, and antiseptic.
	www.viable-herbal.com /herbdesc5/1cubebbe.htm (466 words)

	Cubeb / Piper cubeba / Java Pepper / Cubeb berry(fireweed->exnatrem)
		Cubeb is also used for treating leucorrhoea, cystitis, urethritis, abscesses of the prostate gland, and piles.
		Cubeb pepper is related to the true vine pepper (Piper nigrum).
		Cubeb pepper is generally regarded as safe; however, due to its diuretic properties, prolonged use is not advised.
	www.insensual.com /cubeb.html (857 words)

	cubeb
		Native to Indonesia, particularly Java, cubeb came to Europe via India through Venetian trade with the Arabs, Javanese growers protected their monopoly of the trade by sterilizing the berries by scalding, thus ensuring that the vines were unable to be cultivated elsewhere.
		Although there are no specific uses for cubeb in modern Western cookery, it was popular in the Middle Ages and in moderation may still be used to effect both as a spice and a pepper substitute.
		Cubeb and its oil are carminative, diuretic, stimulant and antiseptic and were employed as genito-urinary antiseptics and especially for clearing up gonorrhea.
	www.theepicentre.com /Spices/cubeb.html (336 words)

	Herbie's Spice World, Part 2
		Cubeb pepper (Piper cubeba) which is also called "tailed" pepper, comes from a tropical climber native to Indonesia.
		Cubebs are dried until fl and are similar in appearance to a fl peppercorn, except for the little 2 to 8 millimeter stalk protruding from one end like a spherical cartoon bomb with its fuse.
		century, cubebs, when available at a low enough cost, were used to adulterate true pepper, causing them to fall into disrepute and to even be banned as an admixture to pepper by some authorities.
	www.fiery-foods.com /dave/herbie0801.html (1523 words)

	Cubeb Berries from Alchemy Works - Herbs for Witchcraft and Magick
		In contrast to fl pepper, though, cubeb heat is also bitter, and its aroma is peppery and pungent, with touches of camphor and nutmeg.
		Cubeb is still a commonly used spice in Morocco, North Africa, and Indonesia and in the West is an ingredient in high-end gin.
		The Eclectics used cubeb to treat chronic gonorrhea, and the berries were smoked in the 19th century for headcolds or hay fever.
	www.alchemy-works.com /herb_cubeb.html (211 words)

	Cyberspace Grill Herb and Spice Directory Cubeb
		Cubeb is a perennial, related to that of peppercorn, of which the fruits are gathered and sun dried.
		Sometimes Cubeb is cultivated side by side with coffee in Java.
		The flavor and Aroma of Cubeb is very similar to pepper but more like Pepper and Allspice combined.
	www.cyberspacegrill.com /spices/spice_10.html (94 words)

	Spice Pages: Cubeb pepper (Cubebs, Piper cubeba)
		The bitter and hot cubebs have been a popular substitute for fl pepper in 16.th and 17.th century Europe, but have fallen much in disfavour since then.
		Less dangerous components might be cubeb pepper, long pepper, fl pepper, grains of paradise, chiles, chaste tree berries, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and even rose flowers.
		As a further complication, I have seen cubeb pepper several times being confused with the so-called “cinnamon buds” or “cassia buds”, dried unripe fruits of the cinnamon or cassia trees, respectively.
	www.uni-graz.at /~katzer/engl/Pipe_cub.html (660 words)

	OpinionSoup \| Wildcrafting \| Jerusalem Artichoke \| Vitamin D
		Cubeb's chief use is in medicinal preparations made from the volatile oil of its bitter seeds.
		Cubebs have been used for centuries for all bladder problems, as they greatly increase the flow of urine.
		Western herbalists have prescribed Cubeb for chronic inflammations of the urinary tract, as well as vaginal yeast infections and the "scalding urine" often experienced during menstruation.
	www.opinionsoup.com /23.html (3014 words)

	Cerberus - BPAL Madness!
		A deep, rumbling scent, warm, soft and as cozy as a dog by a hearthfire, but with a fierce and feral soul: deep chocolate, deeper musks, with a dash of fig, bittersweet walnut, and the wild essences of juniper berry, cubeb and rum.
		The extent of my knowledge of cubeb is that you can make cigarettes out of it - so I assumed it was tobacco-like.
		Cubeb and juniper must be responsible for the bitter spikes that come through in this...like the fangs on a sweet, gentle dog! I don't even smell rum, and since rum is not something that works for me, I am very glad that it incorporates so well into this fragrance and entirely loses any boozy quality.
	www.bpal.org /index.php?showtopic=9487 (3021 words)

	Cubeb Berry - Piper cubeba - Encapsulated Botanical - Herbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cubeb Berry - Piper cubeba - Encapsulated Botanical - Herbs
		Cubeb Berry is a member of the pepper family and is used as a flavoring in food and tobacco.
		Medicinally, Cubeb Berry is famous for its genito-urinary benefits, being used both as an aphrodisiac and as a treatment for urinary and prostate infections.
	www.viable-herbal.com /singles/herbs/s367.htm (857 words)

	Chapter CUBEB <i>to</i> CULGEE of C by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The fruit of the Piper Cubeba, a climbing shrub of the Malay region.
		943.—“The territories of this Prince (the Maharaja of the Isles) produce all sorts of spices and aromatics.…The exports are camphor, lign-aloes, clove, sandal-wood, betel-nut, nutmeg, cardamom, cubeb (alkababah).…”—Mas’udi, i.
		Raw silk; saffron; clove-stalks and cloves; cubebs; lign-aloes.…”—Pegolotti, in Cathay, &c., p.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/260/1270/19968/1.html (560 words)

	Marshall's Cubeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As a student at Harvard School in Chicago during 1888, he and a friend felt quite devilish when they snuck down to the breakwater to smoke.
		Tongue-in-cheek, he stated that if he had studied English grammar, and had not smoked so many cubebs, there might never have been a Tarzan.
		Marshall's Prepared Cubeb Cigarettes was a popular brand with enough sales to still be made during World War Two.
	www.wclynx.com /burntofferings/packscubeb.html (143 words)

	cubeb - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Cubeb : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include cubeb: cubeb cigarette, cubeb vine, oil of cubeb
		Words similar to cubeb: cubeb cigarette, cubeb vine, java pepper, piper cubeba, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=cubeb (235 words)

	Synonyms of cubeb
		usage: spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes
		cubeb, cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba, true pepper, pepper vine
		cubeb, cubeb cigarette, cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, butt, fag
	www.infoplease.com /thesaurus/cubeb (68 words)

	Food-Info.net : Overview of common spices : Cubeb pepper (Javanese pepper, Piper cubeba )
		Food-Info.net : Overview of common spices : Cubeb pepper (Javanese pepper, Piper cubeba)
		Most cubeb pepper is today harvested in Java and other Indonesian islands, but also from some African countries (Sierra Leone, Congo), cubeb pepper is exported.
		The stalked berries are a little bit larger than pepper corns, having a furrowed surface.
	www.food-info.net /uk/products/spices/chubeb.htm (254 words)

	Who Eats Parsnips? Introduction to Phenylpropanoids in Essential Oils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Piper cubeba -- Cubeb, Cubeb Pepper; 300 - 600 ppm in Fruit;
		Piper cubeba -- Cubeb, Cubeb Pepper; in Fruit;
		Cuminum cyminum -- Cumin; 150 ppm in Fruit;
	www.erowid.org /archive/rhodium/chemistry/parsnips.html (3138 words)

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