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Curcuma phaeocaulis Val.
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Latin name |
Curcuma phaeocaulis Val. |
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Family & Genus |
Zingiberaceae, Curcuma |
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Description |
Perennial herbs, 80-150cm tall. Main roots turbinate to cone-shaped turbinate, lateral rhizomes finger-like, inner surface yellow green to green, or sometimes grey blue, end of fibrous roots enlarged into fleshy spindle-shaped, inside green or nearly white. Lower part of leaf sheath often brown purple. Leaves basal, 4-7 pieces; petioles, 1/3-1/2 of blade length or shorter; leaves oblong-elliptic, 20-50cm long, 8-20cm wide, apex acuminate to short tail-shaped acuminate, base decurrent into petioles, glabrous, upper part with 1-2cm wide purple halo along both sides of middle veins. Spikes cylindrical, extracted from rhizomes, 12-20cm long, with more than 20 pieces of bracts, upper bracts oblong, 4-6cm long, 1.5-2cm wide, pink to purple red; lower middle bracts nearly round, 2-3.5 long, 1.5-3.2 wide, light green to white. Flowering: April to June. |
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Distribution |
Growing in mountains, half-dank and fertile soil near village, also in forests. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and etc. Curcuma zedoary: the medicinal materials are produced in Wenjiang and Leshan of Sichuan. Curcuma aromatica: the medicinal materials are produced in Wenjiang and Leshan of Sichuan; also produced in Guangdong. |
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Part Used |
Medical part: dried rhizome or earthnut. Chinese name: Ezhu. Medical part: dried earthnut. Chinese name: Yujin. |
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Harvest & Processing |
Eshu: excavated in winter when cauline leaves withered, well washed, steamed or stewed completely, sun-dried or dried in low temperature, then removed fibrous root and foreign matters. Yujin: in the middle and last ten days of December after being cultivated, choose fine and dried days, cut the above ground parts and excavated the underground parts when cauline leaves gradually withered, removed sand and soil, picked off earthnut, steamed or stewed for 15 minutes, sun-dried or baked-dried and removed fibrous root. |
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Chemistry |
Eshu: mainly contains germacrone, curdione and curcumol. Yujin: mainly contains curcumin compounds and volatile oil. |
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Pharmacology |
Eshu: anti-tumor, anti-early-pregnancy, antibacterial, leukocytes-increasing, body- rheography-improving, acute-kidney-failure alleviating, platelet-aggregation-inhibiting, anti-thrombosis and anti-inflammatory; toxic. Yujin: immune-response caused by inner injury alleviating, nervous-centralis-inhibiting, myocardial-damage and liver-damage protecting, and anti-pregnancy. |
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Properties & Actions |
Zedoary: pungent, bitter, warm. Curcuma aromatica: pungent, bitter, cold.Eshu: activating qi-flow, breaking blood to dissipate stasis and relieving pain. Yujin: activating blood, relieving pain, activating qi-flow, removing restlessness, soothing liver and gallbladder. |
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Indications & Usage |
Zedoary: abdominal mass, amenorrhea due to stagnation of blood, gas pains due to food accumulation; early uterine cervical cancer. turmeric root-tuber: thoracic, abdominal and costal pains, algomenorrhea and amenorrhea, abdominal mass, fever and coma, vesania, frightened epilepsy, hematemesis, non-traumatic hemorrhage, bloody stranguria, stony stranguria, jaundice.Eshu: oral administration: decocting, 3-10g; or made as pills or powders. External application: appropriate amount, decocted for washing: or powdered for application. Yujin: oral administration: decocting, 3-10g; or made as pills or powders. |
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Examples |
Eshu:
1. Treat blood stasis and mass, amenorrhea: turmeric, trigone 1 liang each, prepared rhubarb 1 liang. Prepare pills as large as green bean, take 10-20 pills each time with plain soup.
2. Treat injuries and pain from fall: turmeric, white batryticated silkworm, sappan caesalpinia 1 liang each, commiphora myrrha 0.5 liang. Grind into powder. Take 2 qian each time, decoct in water, warm up and swallow, 3 times a day, and five times in total.
Curcuma aromatica:
1. Treat full sensation in the hypoxhondrium in females due to adverse rising of qi: curcuma aromatica, aucklandia root, turmeric, suffruticosa peony bark, grind in plain soup and drink.
2. Treat puerperal angina pectoris, adverse Qi and blood rushing upwards: scorch and grind curcuma aromatica into powder 2 qian, rice vinegar a little. Prepare and gavage.
3. Treat non-traumatic hemorrhage, hematemesis: grind curcuma aromatica into powder, swallow 2 qian with water, and take more for severe ones. |
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Permanent URL：https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cmed/mpid/detail.php?herb_id=D00513 |
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