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  • कल्पकः
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    • Name - कर्चूरः

    Botanical name - Curcuma zedoaria

    Description - Herbs with rhizomes bearing palmately branched sessile cylindric tubers. Leaves with long petiole, oblanceolate. Flowers yellow, in spikes; flowering bracts cymbiform, green tinged with red.

    Chemical Constituents- Rhizome contains sesquiterpenoids - curcumol, zederone, zedoarone, fyranodiene, cumolone, pyrocurzerenone, procurcumenol, curcumenone, curcumanolide A and curcumanolide B, curcumenol, guaiane zedoarondiol. Essential oil consists of curzerenone, furanodienone I, isofuranodienone II and epicurzerenone

    Use - Rhizomes are aromatic, cooling, diuretic, stimulant arid carminative. The rhizomes do not contain dye.