कर्चूरः  – Curcuma zedoaria

 

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.