Curcuma xanthorrhiza

Family: Zingiberaceae

Region: Koneng gede, temulabak, white temu

Wild Ginger (Curcuma xanthorrhiza Roburgh) from Java, Bali and Maluku where there crop is still growing very fertile, like the teak forest. Usually developed in Java and Malaysia, and other places (like India and Thailand). Rhizome is used for stomach and liver problems (jaundice, gallstones). Decoction of the rhizome is used as a cure fever and constipation, and used by women to reduce the inflammation of the uterus after childbirth. Wild Ginger also breed on the moor land around the settlements, terutaama on loose soil, so buaah rimpangnya easily developed into a major. Wild Ginger including herbaceous vegetation types are rod-shaped artificial trunk and can reach 2 meters high. The leaves are wide and on each strand is connected to the sheath and a rather long petiole. Wild Ginger has a unique-shaped flowers (clustered) and dark yellow. Rhizome of ginger has long been known as a medicinal herb ingredients. Distinctive aroma and color of the rhizome of ginger is pungent and flesh yellowish. Regional growth than in the plains rendaah can also grow well into the soil at an altitude of 1500 meters above sea level.

Nature Chemical: Contains essential oils such as limonina the scent, while the content of his flavonoida efficacious cure sore. Essential oils can also kill the microbes. The fruit contains oil fly (anetol, pinen, felandren, dipenten, fenchon, metilchavikol, anisaldehida, anisat acid, kamfen) and fatty oils.

Farmakologis Effect: Its taste a little bitter, anti-constipation, acnevulgaris, anti-inflammatory and anti-hepatotoxic, laktagoga, kolagoga, tonic, diuretic, fungstatik and bacteriostatic. The content of a black anise also help remove the wind, and encouraging art-water discharge.

The plant is used: fresh or dried rhizome

Cultivation mode: Tillers that grow from rhizomes, adequate water. Berumpun wild plants and sticky, usually grows in the forests and planted in the garden with a height of about 0.5 to 3 m. Needle-shaped leaves are smooth. The fruit is fragrant length is about 0.5 cm is used as a drug combined with bark pulasari (alyxia Reinwadrtii Bl.). The flowers are yellow umbrella-shaped compound. The Englishman called fennel fennel and Dutch venkel. Fennel is sometimes called fennel, fennel for flavor different from cooking. Fennel for cooking is called "sweet cumin" or "sweet fennel", although the Minang people call fennel as adeh manih. Aniseed or sweet cumin (Pimpinella anisum L. of Apiaceae tribe as well) by an Englishman called anise and by the Dutch anijs. Sweet cumin is sometimes used as a drug. There is still another fennel, namely anise or fennel sowa drugs or ender (Anethum graveolens L. from Apiaceae tribe as well). In the language of England called the dill and fennel and sowa in Dutch dilIe.