ZINGIBER CASSUMUNAR
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OTHER NAMESTamil: Kattu Ingi
English: Wild Ginger Telugu: Karu-allamu ; Karu-pasupu Malayalam: Kannada: Nisa ; Malabari halad Marathi: Nisa ; Malabari halad Hindi: Ban-ada Sanskrit: Vana-ardraka |
description & usage
Uses:
Its uses are similar to thoes of Officinal ginger; it is carminative, stimulant in diarrhoea and colic.
How to Use:
Root has a pungent odour similar to a mixture of camphor and nutmeg. Root is found to contain more mucilage and sugar than that of Curcuma aromatica. This drug yielded to analysis - Essential oil, fat and soft resin, sugar, gum, acids, starch, crude fibre, ash, moisture, albuminoids, modifications of arabin etc. It is stomachic, carminative and stimulant. Useful in diarrhoea and colic.
Parts Used:
Root
Taste:
Pungency
Action:
Stoma chic, carminative, stimulant
Its uses are similar to thoes of Officinal ginger; it is carminative, stimulant in diarrhoea and colic.
How to Use:
Root has a pungent odour similar to a mixture of camphor and nutmeg. Root is found to contain more mucilage and sugar than that of Curcuma aromatica. This drug yielded to analysis - Essential oil, fat and soft resin, sugar, gum, acids, starch, crude fibre, ash, moisture, albuminoids, modifications of arabin etc. It is stomachic, carminative and stimulant. Useful in diarrhoea and colic.
Parts Used:
Root
Taste:
Pungency
Action:
Stoma chic, carminative, stimulant
