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| Bangla Name : | Morang elachi. |
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| English Name : | Bengal cardamom. |
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| Family : | Zingiberaceae |
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| Disease : | Stomachic, hypnotic,appetizer, tonic,astringent ,indigestion, vomiting and biliousness |
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| Description : | A rhizomatous perennial herb with leafy stems, up to 1.2 m high. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous on both sides, 15-30.5 by 5-10 cm. Spikes radical, shortly peduncled, globose, corolla-tube 2.5 cm, segments obtuse, nearly as long as the tube, white, lip pale yellow, as long as the corolla-segments, outer half deflexed. Fruit ovate, 2.5 cm, oblong-trigonous, somewhat rugose. |
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| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sylhet and North Bengal. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Leaves contain 0.12% essential oil (Yusuf, 1999).
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| Uses : | : Seeds are stomachic, hypnotic and appetizer, tonic to the heart and liver, astringent to the bowels, useful in indigestion, vomiting and biliousness.
EtOH(50%) extract of the rhizome root is hypoglycaemic and anthelmintic (Asolkar et al., 1992).
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| Habit : | Herb |
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