Meaning
A common low, succulent-stemmed Jamaican bush with small heart-shaped leaves, valued in folk medicine and brewed as a bush tea. It springs up easily in damp, shady yard corners and is picked as a traditional home remedy for colds, fever, and other everyday ailments. Like many yard bushes, it sits in the household store of teas that people reach for before ever going to a doctor.
Examples
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Boil some pepper elder fi di cold.
Boil some pepper elder for the cold.
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Pepper elder grow all bout inna di yard.
Pepper elder grows all about in the yard.
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Granny mek pepper elder tea.
Granny made pepper elder tea.
Origin
Descriptive folk name; a common Jamaican medicinal yard bush (Peperomia). See [[bush-tea]], [[cerasee]].
How it’s used
A common medicinal yard bush brewed as a cold/fever tea. See [[bush-tea]], [[cerasee]].