ZEDOARIA (curcuma zedoaria)

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	ZEDOARIA
	*curcuma zedoaria*

Name
ZEDOARIA

Scientific Name
curcuma zedoaria

ZEDOARIA

Castilian: zedoaria

English: zedoary, cochin turmeric

Italian: zedoaria

German: Zittwewurzel

Indian: kachura, sati (bengalí)

Chinese: p'ong Ngo chou, chou I, koang chou, Ngo chou

Vietnamese: bông trûat

Family:

Zingiberáceas.

Origin:

The south and Southeast of Asia.

Type:

Plant.

Leaves:

Whole with nerviaciones of color purple.

Flowers:

yellows, with brácteas of greenish color finishing in its ends of pink color.

Rizomas: tuberoso and periforme (4 cm. in length). Brown color in the outside and yellow in the interior.

USED PART MEDICINALLY:

Rizoma.

MAIN COMPONENTS

It draws resin from (3%)

Mucílago (9%)

Bitter principles and fixed oil (2,5%)

Essential oil (1,5%)

d-alpha-pineno

canfeno

cineol

camphor

borneol

sesquiterpenos (zingibereno)

alcohol nonidentified

Medicinal properties

Aromatic, carminativa, eupéptica, stimulating of the digestive system and the gastric juice, emenagogo

Indications

Dispepsias atónicas, aquilia and digestive deficit by lack or menstrual deficiency of gastric and intestinal, hipermenorrea juice, alterations.

Notes of interest

Two varieties of zeodaria exist: longa (extended) and the rotunda (round)

Contraindications

They are not known

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