COMMON NAME: Pepper, Green

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Piper nigrum

FAMILY NAME: Piperaceae (Pepper)

INDIGENOUS COUNTRY: South-west India

COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Madagascar, India, Indonesia, China

HISTORY INFORMATION: Pepper plants used to be grown next to trees for support, but now they are staked. Pepper used to be a very valuable commodity because the food sources were often spoiled and not smelling good, and the pepper made the food better. Pepper was called the rich man's spice. When food became fresher, the poor were still not able to get better food so black pepper became the poor man's spice. As people were looking for interesting and unusual ways to flavor their food, green pepper became popular. Green pepper was most popular in the 50's. It has a unique, slightly fruity sharpness that goes best with ground meat dishes.

GENERAL INFORMATION: This oil seems much milder and sweeter than the Black Pepper.

DESCRIPTION OF PLANT: A perennial vine growing to 15ft high with heart shaped leaves and small white flowers producing red berries that turn to black.

PARTS PROCESSED: Unripe fruit.

PROCESSING METHODS: Steam distilled

COLOR RANGE: Clear - light green.

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS: Class: Terpene. Mainly made of monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes

PHYSICAL ACTIONS AND USES: Analgesic, anti-inflammatory, restorative, rubefacient. Used to uplift mood, relieve insect bites and stings, and relieve muscular aches and pains.

MENTAL USES: I can play easily. I make time to have fun. My work is my play. I enjoy life. When work becomes hard or tiring, I take a break and go and have some fun.

EMOTIONAL USES: Depressed, frustrated, takes life very seriously, laughs very little, not able to play, caught in the seriousness of life, not able to get ahead or realize your dreams TO more able to make light of yourself and life, no longer needs to escape pain but is now able to laugh at difficulties, more laughing and feeling carefree.

SPIRITUAL USES: Can indicate that you have been taking life too seriously. Laughter is a spiritual tool. To lighten up or become more spiritual also means that one is able to laugh more at themselves. This is not the laughter of ridicule, but one of having a greater picture and seeing how silly we are to get caught in all the little stuff. This oil can also open you to the wonderful world of the elementals, especially the air elementals. Green Pepper lightens the energy field and you find yourself laughing at what once was very serious and unbearable. Calling for Green pepper is a signal that whatever you have been working on is now ready to leave. You are finished with this lesson and you can now laugh at it and yourself. It takes the sting out of life.

APPLICATIONS: Bath, massage, mist spray.

WARNINGS\CONTRAINDICATIONS: No formal testing, avoid in pregnancy.