At the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology, IIT BHU, Varanasi,
Prof. M.S. Muthu heading the Advanced Nanomedicine Research lab.
Piperine enhances the bioavailability of structurally and therapeutically different drugs, either by increasing the absorption or delaying the metabolism of the drug, or by a combination of both processes. It is evident that black pepper fruits have been used as a bio-enhancer in allopathic systems of medicine.