वॆधमुख्यः
वनकॊद्रवः
वृन्ताकम्
वन्दा
वन्ध्याकर्कॊटकी
वनश्रृङ्गाट
वनस्पतिः
व्यङ्गा
वयस्था
वयस्या
व्याघ्री
व्याधिघातः
व्यालः
वरट्टिका
वरटा
| 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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