Pink Pepper
Pink pepper is the dried red fruits of the common pepper plant or pirula. They are used as a spice and in traditional medicine. It can be up to 15 metres tall. It comes from the Peruvian Andes, from where it has spread to dry subtropics around the world. The fruits, which have a burning taste, are used like pepper to season food.
Use:
✅The aromatic parts of the plant,
✅Especially the leaves, are used in traditional medicine as an antibacterial and antiseptic agent.
✅Currently, the effects of antidepressants have also been proven,
✅In folk medicine they are used, for example, as a remedy for toothache.
✅In earlier times, they were also used as a flavouring agent in the traditional alcoholic drink chicha.
✅It is also used in the cosmetics and perfume industry..