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Market nameKapur Kachri
Urudu nameKapur Kachri
English nameSpiked ginger lily
Original plant nameHedychium spicatum Ham. ex Smith, Spiked ginger lily
Family nameZingiberaceae
Used partClassificationPlant origin
Sub classification tuber
Collection informationIslamic Republic of Pakistan, Karachi [Karachi], Sind, Amjad Unani Medicine (Pvt.) Ltd.
Collection date1994/1/22
CollectorTsuneo Namba
IdentifierJaved Ahmad
DescriptionFeatures:
Flat, spherical, transversely sliced pieces of dried rhizome, upto 1cm in thickness and 2 to 3cm in diameter. Outer surface rough, reddish brown colour, with round root scars or rootlets which remain attached at some places. The transversely cut surface is white and starchy with indistinct tissue. Fracture - short and uneven; odour - strong and camphoraceous; taste - acrid, pungent and aromatic.
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Scientific information data base

Crude drug nameUrudu name,
English name		Kapur Kachri, Spiked ginger lily
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Original plant nameHedychium spicatum Ham. ex Smith
Family nameZingiberaceae
Used partTubers
Distribution areaHedychium spicatum is found in sub-tropical Himalayas, Kumaon upto 5,000 to 7,000ft.; also in Nepal.
DescriptionHedychium spicatum has similarity with turmeric upto certain extent. It has strong odour and taste - pungent.
The drug is of two kinds. The first kind is found in south India and is known as Zaranbad (Curcuma zedoaria). The other kind is found in northern India and in trade it is called Kapur Kachri (Hedychium spicatum Ham. ex Smith). These plants are found in the Himalayas and Mussoori Hills; growing abundantly in the Punjab and Nepal.
Function and propertiesCosmetics, Head and chest, Swellings, Food, Excretion.

Carminative, deobstruent, exhilarant, cardiac and brain tonic, stomach and liver tonic, strong detersive, aromatic, stimulant, expectorant and antiphlegmatic, diuretic and emmenagogue, aphrodisiac, resolvent of inflammation and rubefacient.
Specific actionsCarminative and tonic for vital organs.
Frequency in useVery common.
Common usesCosmetics: It is fattening drug and removes the smell of wine, garlic and onion. It is used for cleaning throat.

Head and chest: Included in electuaries and exhilarant preparations prescribed in cardiac and liver affections particularly in flatulence and dyspepsia. It is cardiac tonic. In compound preparations (Safuf chutki) administered as general tonic.
Being expectorant and purgative of phlegm it is useful in asthma and bronchitis and as detergent effective in freckles, itching and scabies and to bruises.

Swellings: Externally applied over the inflammations, it acts as resolvent and analgesic.

Food: It stops vomiting. It is dissolvent of gases.

Excretion: It causes constipation.
Side effectIt produces headache in large doses or when used for long duration. It is very useful in insect-bite cases.
Medical systemUnani
Traditional conceptTemperamentIt is hot in the second and dry in the third degree (Kabiruddin). It is hot and dry in the third degree (Avicenna).
Drug effectIt is carminative and tonic to liver.
Dosage1 to 3gm.
SubstituteHaldi (Curcuma longa Linn.) in external uses and Mulaithi (Glycyrrhiza glabra Linn.), liquorice, as corrective of taste.
Related drugs- Zingiber zerumbet Rosc., the black zedoary.
- Curcuma zedoaria, long zedoary. Zaranbad.
It possesses somewhat similar medicinal attributes. It has a camphoraceous smell of long zedoary.
Corrigent (corrective)Gul e-banafsha (Viola odorata Linn.), flowers.
Important compound preparationsDawai Magmaza, Roghan Amla Khas, Arq Ambar and Ma`jun Raig Mahi.
ReferencesReference book　

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Illustrated Manual of Herbal Drugs Used in Ayurveda, 1996. Sarin, Y.K., Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi
pp 52, 96.

Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay
Vol. 1, pp 418-419, 608.

Avicenna's Tract on Cardiac Drugs and Essays on Arab Cardiotherapy, 1983. Hameed, H. A. Hamdard Foundation Press, Karachi.
p 46.

Makhzanul-Mufradat (Khawasul Adviyah), Hakeem Kabiruddin, Daftar Al-Masih, Qarol Bagh, Delhi.
p 315.

A Survey of Drugs, 1961 (2nd edi.). Wahid, A. K. and Siddiqui, H. H. Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, Delhi.
pp 19-30.

Dictionary of Economic Plants in India, 1996 (2nd Rep.). Singh, U; Wadhwani, A. M. and Johri B.M. Indian council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.
pp 63, 97.

Al-Qanun Fil-Tibb. Avicenna. (English translation of the critical Arabic text), Book 2, 1998. Hameed, H. A. (editor), Dept. of Islamic Studies, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi.
pp 239-240.

Al-Jamili Mufradt Al Adwiya Wal Aghziya (1197-1248 A.D.). Ibn al-Baytar. Vols. 1-3, 1985-1999. Central council for Research in Unani Medicine, Janakpuri, New Delhi.
Vol. 2, pp 330-332.

Hamdard Pharmcopoeia of Eastern medicine, 1969. Said, H. M. (editor), The Times Press, Sadar Karachi.
pp 135, 140, 198-199, 270-271.

Indusyunic Medicine, 1997. Usmanghani, K., Saeed, A. and Alam, M. T. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi.
pp 198-199.

Unani Adwiyah Mufradah, 1984. Ali, Saifuddin, A. (3rd edi.). Taraqi-e-Urdu Bureau, R. K. Puram, New Delhi.
pp 173-174.

RemarksBoth the drugs (C. zedoaria and H. spicatum) possess somewhat similar medicinal attributes. But C. zedoaria has more superiority over the other drug, therefore, it is more frequently used in compound preparations.
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