Caper

Medicinal Herb : Caper
Plant Description

Caper is highly variable in nature in its natural habitat.

This shrubby plant has many branch with alternate leaves, thick and shiny round in shape The flowers are sweetly fragrant, showy with four sepals and four white-pinkish petals.

Capers are harvested regularly from May to July.

It prefers full sunlight and warm climate and much treated like cactus, requires frequent watering in summer and very little in winter.

Parts Used

Flower bud and root bark.
Culinary uses

* Capers can be used as sauces and salads in meat and other dishes.
* It gives a pepper taste when garnish on salad and other dish.
* It is a common ingredient in Mediterranean cuisines and the mature fruit of this plant is salted, prepared and marketed as capper berries.
* Capers are also a special ingredient in Italian cuisines It is added to pizza, pasta salads, chicken dishes and pasta sauces

Medicinal uses

* The root bark of caper has been considered and used as astringent, expectorant, diuretic and stimulating tonic.
* It is also considered healthy in gastro-intestinal infections, diarrhea, gout and rheumatism.
* The flower buds of caper are affective in cough and for eye infection.
* Its roots and bud makes a soothing herbal tea.
Medicinal Herbs