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Pharmaceutical name:

英文藥名﹕

Rhizoma zingiberis purpurei

Botanical name:

學名﹕

Zingiber purpureum Roscoe

Synonim: Zingiber cassumunar Roxb.  

Pron. in Japanese:

日語發音﹕

shikyou

Pron. in Korean:

韓語發音﹕

Pron. in Cantonese:

粵音﹕

zi2 goeng1

Other Names:

別名﹕

ka sa meng na jiang 卡薩蒙納薑

Common Name:

外文名﹕

English: Cassumunar ginger

Thai: Plai

Indonesian: Panglai (Sunda), bengle (Jawa), pandhiyang (Madura).; mugle, bengle, bungle, baglai, baniai, banglai, bunglai,; bangle, kunit bolai, kunyit bolai (Sumatera), banggele (Bali),; bale, panini, manglai, manguiai, bangerei, wangelei, walegai,; kukuniran, kukundiren, unin makei, unin pakei, bangle, bongle

Distribution:

產地﹕

Tropical Asia: India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Yunnan province of China etc.

Properties

(characteristics)﹕

性味﹕

fragrant, slightly spicy, slightly bitter.

香，微辛，微苦。

Channels (meridians) entered:

歸經﹕

藥理﹕

anti-inflammatory effect

抗炎

Actions & Indications:

主治﹕

For pain relief after surgery; muscle pain, painful menstruation, pain due to 

inflammation of the ears, throat, and nose, as antipyretics.

Usage in Indonesian folk medicine: for treatment of fever, headache, cough, 

stomachache, common cold, constipation; jaundice, worm parasites, 

rheumatism, obesity; for shrinking abdomen after giving birth and as tonic.

抗風濕、抗發炎、鎮痛解熱。常用於手術後疼痛控制、消炎、肌肉疼痛，經痛，耳鼻喉發炎引起的疼痛。

印尼民間用於治療發熱，頭痛，咳嗽，胃痛，感冒，便秘，黃疸，寄生蟲，風濕，肥胖; 作生完孩子後之食補，產後收縮腹部。

Chemical ingredients:

化學 成份﹕

sabinene 27-34%
G-terpinene 6-8%
α-terpinene 4-5%
terpinene-4-ol 30-35%
E-1-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)butadiene as DMPBD 12-19%

resin, starch, tannin.

檜27-34％
G-松油烯（g-不旋松油精) 6-8％
a-萜烯4-5％
萜品烯-4 - 醇的30-35％的
E-1-（3,4 - 二甲氧基苯基）丁二烯，即 DMPBD12-19％

樹脂，澱粉，單寧。

Dosage:

用量﹕

15 g (fresh root)

Samples of formulae:

處方舉例﹕

For treatment of: Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the eye:
zi jiang and jiang huang  15 g each and Cumin13 pieces of
, washed and cut into pieces as needed. Boiled
with 1 cup water and render till half a cup is left. After the decoction has cooling down, filter and take orally..

眼睛的粘膜發炎症：
紫姜，姜黃各15克，孜然13枚。
洗淨，切成片。加水1杯煎成半杯。放涼，過濾後內服..

Modern Research:

現代 研究﹕

Anti-inflammatory effect of Zingiber cassumunar Roxb. and its active principles.

Zingiber cassumunar rhizome showed more than 30% increase of CYP3A4 inhibition [1]

Inhibits cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1312247/table/TU1/

Toxicity & Cautions:

毒素與禁忌﹕

Avoid mixing this herb with warfarin, hypertension drugs or cholesterol drugs.[2]

避免與抗凝血素香豆素或與治血壓高西藥，或降膽固醇西藥同用。