Chinese Name: 草豆蔻

Family: Zingiberaceae

Morphology: Perennial herb, up to 3 m high, with rhizome. Leaves linear-lanceolate 50-65 X 6-9 cm, mucronate at apex, asymmetrical at base, hairy at margin; petioles 1.5-2 cm long; ligulates coarsely hairy outside. Raceme erect; bractlets milky white, oval; lip triangular-ovate, 3.5-4 cm long. Fruit globose, 3 cm in diameter.

Distribution: Guangdong and Guangxi.

Uses: Seed is used as folk medicine to cure pain over the chest and abdomen due to cold-evil, overeating, gastric disease, vomiting and diarrhea due to cold-wetness evil, phlegm-retention disease.

Constituents: GC/MS profile

Main Body

Flower

Leaves