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I assume you mean ethanol + KOH? if so, in order to prevent co-precipitation of piperine and the resin acids, dilute ethanolic KOH is added to the concentrated extract to keep acidic materials in solution as their potassium salts (acid/base rxn occurs). basically it keeps impurities in solution, while piperine precipitates out.

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