Zedoaria

curcuma zedoaria

Zedoaria
curcuma zedoaria

Castilian: zedoaria.

English: zedoary, kochi Turmeric.

Italian: zedoaria.

German: Zittwewurzel.

Indio: kachura, Sati (Bengali)

Chinese: ngo p'ong chou, chou I koang chou, ngo chou.

Vietnamese: Bongo trûat.

Family:

Zingiberáceas.

Source:

South and Southeast Asia.

Type:

Plant.

Leaves:

Nerviaciones whole with the color purple.

Flowers:

yellow color with greenish running out of bracts at the ends of pink.

Rhizomes: tuberous and periforme (4 cm. Longitude) Brown on the outside and yellow on the inside.

PART USED medicinal:

The rhizome.

MAIN COMPONENTS.

Resin (3%)

Mucilage (9%)

Bitter fixed principles and oil (2. 5%)

Essential oil (1. 5%)

d - alpha - pinene.

canfeno.

cineol.

camphor.

borneol.

Sesquiterpenes (zingibereno)

Unidentified alcohols.

Medicinal properties.

Aromatic, carminativa, eupéptica, stimulating the digestive system and the gastric juices, emenagogo.

Indications.

Dyspepsia Aten, per digestivo Aquilia deficit and lack or inadequacy of gastric and intestinal juices, hipermenorrea, menstrual disorders.

Bits of interest.

There are two varieties of zeodaria: the longa (elongated) and the rotunda (round)

Contraindications.

There are no known.

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