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Embelia ribes, commonly known as false black pepper, white-flowered embelia, viḍaṅga (Sanskrit: विडङ्ग), vaividang, vai vidang, or vavding [1] is a species in the family Primulaceae. It was originally described by Nicolaas Laurens Burman in his 1768 publication Flora Indica. [2] It is widely distributed throughout India.
Embelia is a genus of climbing shrubs once placed in the family Myrsinaceae, [1] which is now included in the Primulaceae. [2] There are about 130 species which occur in tropical and subtropical areas across a wide range including Africa and Madagascar and from eastern Asia to the Pacific Islands as well as Australia including: [ 1 ]
Embelin (2,5-dihydroxy-3-undecyl-1,4-benzoquinone) is a naturally occurring para-benzoquinone isolated from dried berries of Embelia ribes plants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Several studies have reported antidiabetic activity of embelin.
The Ikogosi Warm Springs is a tourist attraction located at Ikogosi, a town in Ekiti State, southwestern Nigeria. [1] Flowing abreast the warm spring is another cold spring which meets the warm spring at a confluence, each maintaining its thermal properties. [2] These attributes make the spring a tourist attraction in Nigeria. [3]
The hot springs are located at an altitude of 5,782 feet (1,762 m) [3] and sheltered from heavy winds by nearby mountains. [4] In 1903 and 1904, it was reported that the springs flowed through a cone of hardened minerals .5 miles (0.80 km) in circumference and 40 feet (12 m) high [4] at the rate of 6,000 U.S. gallons (23,000 liters; 5,000 imperial gallons) per hour.
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In China, this pepper was called both vilenga and viḍaṅga विडङ्ग (the cognate Sanskrit word), which had denoted embelia ribes before being used to denote the Malayan cubeb (simplified Chinese: 荜澄茄; traditional Chinese: 蓽澄茄; pinyin: bì chéng qié [5]). [6] [7] Li Hsun thought it grew on the same tree as black pepper ...