Kaempferia rotunda Health Dictionary

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Linn.

Family: Zingiberaceae.

Habitat: Throughout India in wet or humid shaded areas.

Ayurvedic: Bhuumi-champaka, Bhuu-champaka, Hallakam.

Siddha/Tamil: Karunkuvalai.

Folk: Bhui-champaa.

Action: Tuber—antitumour. Used for swellings (removes blood clot), mumps and wounds.

Tubers gave crotepoxide and beta- sitosterol. The oil contained chavicol, cineole.
Health Source: Indian Medicinal Plants
Author: Health Dictionary

Kaempferia Galanga

Linn.

Family: Zingiberaceae.

Habitat: Throughout the plains of India, cultivated in gardens.

Ayurvedic: Sugandha-vachaa, Chandramuula, Chandramuulikaa. (In Kerala, used as Karchura and Shathi.) (Kapurakachari is a different drug, equated with Hedychium spicatum.)

Siddha/Tamil: Kachoram.

Action: Tuber—stimulant, carminative, expectorant, diuretic used for respiratory ailments like cough, bronchitis and asthma.

The essential oil from rhizomes contain n-pentadecane, ethyl-p-methoxy cinnamate, ethyl cinnamate, carene, camphene, borneol, p-methoxysty- rene, p-methoxy cinnamate, p-meth- oxy-trans-cinnamic acid and cin namaldehyde. Insecticidal activity of the oil is attributed to ethyl cinna- mates. Ethyl-p-methoxy-cinnamate shows monoamine oxidase inhibitor activity and a cytotoxic principle (the rhizomes exhibit cytotoxic activity).

Leaves and flowers exhibit antiphlogistic and vitamin P activity. Ethyl-p- methoxy-trans cinnamate is the main compound in the root.... kaempferia galanga

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