Costus speciosus
| Author : (Koenig) J.E. Smith |
| Family : Zingiberaceae |
| Habit: Herb |
| Sanskrit: Chanda |
| English: Spiral ginger, Canereed ginger, Wild ginger |
A perennial herb, with creeping rhizome, spirally twisting stem, elliptic-acuminate or elliptic-obovate leaves, white large flowers, in terminal dense cone-like spikes and globose capsule containing shortly arillate seeds.
Rhizomes, leaves, stem
burning sensation, constipation, worm infestations, leprosy, skin diseases, cold, pneumonia, stomach troubles, urinary diseases, fever, hiccough, asthma, bronchitis, inflammation, anaemia, jaundice, mental disorders, dysentery, eye diseases, purgative
diosgenin, sitosterol, β-sitosterol-β-D-glucoside, dioscin, gracillin, quinines, saponins, aliphatic esters and acids