द्राविडः
द्रॊणपुष्पी
द्रॊणा
दलहीनफला
दॆवकुसुमं
दॆवता
दॆवदुन्दुभिः
दॆवदारु
दॆवधूपः
दॆवधूपम्
दॆवनिर्मिता
द्वारदारुः
द्विजप्रिया
दॆवी
दशाङ्गुलम्
| 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.
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