CURCUMA CAESIA ROXB. AND IT’S MEDICINAL USES: A REVIEW
Sonjit Das, ProdyutMondal and Md. Kamaruz Zaman*
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dibrugarh University, Assam-786 004.
India.
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ABSTRACT
Curcuma
caesia is commonly known as kali haldi and it belongs to the family Zingiberaceae.
This herb is available throughout north-east, central India, Papi Hills of East
Godavari, West Godavari, and Andhra Pradesh. In the traditional system of medicine,
fresh and dried rhizomes of Curcuma caesia Roxb are used in treating
leucoderma, asthma, tumours, piles, bronchitis, bruises etc. In this review
article various established facts related to the plant Curcuma caesia have been
compiled so that proper scientific methods can be initiated to validate its
traditional uses and open the door for a source of potential drugs in near
future.
Keywords: Curcumacaesia,
traditional uses, bioactivity.
INTRODUCTION
India has
long history of using plants for medicinal purposes as mention in Ayurveda. The
significance of medicinal plants for prevention,mitigationt and cure of
diseases are always recognized.
History
revealed that plants have been a valuable sourceof natural products for
maintaining human health at all thetimes. Their importance is continuously growing
now days. Most of the people now prefer natural therapies to get ridof from serious
side effects of some of the present day medication. Curcuma Linn.is a large
genus belonging to the family Zingiberaceae.
It comprises
about 70 species of rhizomatous herbs distributed mostly in Southeast Asia as
wild and cultivated plants1.Curcuma species have a great importance for its
medicinal value and Curcuma caesiahas been using by various tribal communities
from long before. Kali haldi(Curcuma caesia) is a perennial herb with
bluish-black rhizomenative to North- Eastand Central India.
Black
Turmeric is also sparsely found in Papi Hills of East Godavari, West Godavari,
and Khammam Districts of Andhra Pradesh. The rhizomes of kali haldi have a high
economical importance because of its putative medicinal properties. The rhizomes
are used in the treatment of smooth muscle relaxant activity2.haemorrhoids, leprosy,
asthma, cancer, epilepsy, fever, wound, vomiting, menstrual disorder, anthelmentic,
aphrodisiac, inflammation, gonorrhoeal discharges, etc3.
In Madhya
Pradesh, the plant is regarded asvery auspicious and is stated that a person who
possess it will never experience shortage of cereals and food .The rhizomes of
the plant are aromatic in nature .The inner part of the rhizome is bluish-black
in colour and emits a characteristic sweet smell, due to presence of essential
oil4. Traditionally, the rhizomes of Curcuma caesiaRoxb. are used in treating
leucoderma, asthma, tumours, piles, bronchitis etc.
The paste is
applied on bruises, contusions and rheumatic pains in Manipur5.In Arunachal Pradesh,
Adi tribes use decoction of fresh rhizome as anti-diarrhoetic. The Khamti tribe
of Lohit district applied the paste of fresh rhizome in case of snake and
scorpion bite6,7.
METHODS Botanical
description8
Morphology
The plant is
normally erect with height ranging from 0.5 to 1.0 m.It is divided into
underground large ovoid tuberous rhizome often called root-stock and an erect
aerial shoot along with leaves (Fig-1) and reproductive part. Root As the plant
propagates with rhizome, the primary roots are not seen; however, yellow brown
long fibrous and tapering
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