Plant Details

Accepted name:: Acorus calamus L. [Acoraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 3

Acorus calamus var. americanus Raf.

Acorus calamus var. angustatus Besser

Acorus calamus var. calamus

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
acore calame	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
acore odorant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
acore vrai	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
acori	Other	Weeds & Med. Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Islam et al., 2006)
acori calami rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
acoro	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
acorus	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
agar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
agir torki	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
agre turki	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
agre-turki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
agreturki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
agri-turki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akaraveci	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akkitam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aorch	Other	Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003)
arpakeci	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arpakecu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
athibaje	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ativacam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
attakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ayamavati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ayavaci	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bacc	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
bach	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
bacha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bachh	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bachinampa	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
baj	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bajai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
baje	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
baje gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
barian	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
barin	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
baz	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
beach	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bhadra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
bhoja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bhuta-nashini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bhutanashini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bodhaniya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bodi	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
boja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bojho	Other	MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017) Med. Pl., Trad. Med., Markets in Nepal (Kunwar et al., 2013) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
buch	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bái chāng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bái chāng pú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
cakatai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
calami rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 2. (2009) Pharmacopoeia Helvetica (Swissmedic, 2006)
calamo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
calamo aromatico	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
calamus	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
calamus oil	Other	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
calamus root	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
calamus roots	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
calamís	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
camanam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
canakantakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
canakantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
canakappulitam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
canattanam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cantankotan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cantatikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
capinakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cataikantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cataikkantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
catakantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
catakkotan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
catakkotanam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
catiyattakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cattukantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cavukanti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cetilolam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
changpu	Other	Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
citakentam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
civayoki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
common sweet flag	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
cukkulakantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cutuvan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cálamo aromático	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
dagade	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
deringau	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 2. (2009)
derinu	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
dringo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
dà yè chāng pú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
emavati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
eğir	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
eğir kökü	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
flag root	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
flagroot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
galani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ghodavaca	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
ghoduvaj	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
ghodvach	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
ghorabach	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ghorbach	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
golomi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
gora-bach	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
gorbacc	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gorbach	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gur	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gurbaz	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
haimavati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
haimdvati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hazanbel	Other	Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010)
ikshuparni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
imavari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
iraccollan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
irusimulam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
irutimulam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jalaja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jatila	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jerangau	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 2. (2009) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jerangoh	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 2. (2009) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jerangong	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jeringau	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jeringu	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kalmoes	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kalmus	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pharmacopoeia Helvetica (Swissmedic, 2006) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
kanga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kantakapasanam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kantamacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kantamam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kapatakkatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kapatamitti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kavana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kayamalaki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kayamalakikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kayamavati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kayimavati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kayiravati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kilatolya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kiravanattukkati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kshudra-patra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kshudrapatri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kulomicai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lin-lay	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
lin-ne	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
luplak	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
maangalyaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
mangalya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
masha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
matali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mattiri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mattirikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mokai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
motai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mukkikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mukkil	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
myrtle-flag	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
naaru baeru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
napittari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
narram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
narru berua	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
nattam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nattuvacampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ní chāng pú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
percollamaruntu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
percollan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
petiyaikkattumuli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
petiyaikkattumulikai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
peyarcollan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
peyarcollatatu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pillai maruntho	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
pillaimaruntu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pillaivalarppan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
por bue lah	Other	Pl. for Digestion by Karen of N Thailand (Tangjitman et al., 2015)
puccikolli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pullai-valathi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
r'iran	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
r'ran	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
radix	Other	Weeds & Med. Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Islam et al., 2006)
rakalop	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
rakshoghni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rat root	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 2. (2009)
rhizoma acori calami	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
rhizomata calami	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014)
riran	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
rusimulam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sadgrantha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
safed bach	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
safed-bach	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sakha waja	Other	NTFPS in Swat, Pakistan (Latif et al., 2006)
sakhawaja	Other	Ethnobot. Relevance of Weed Flora, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2016)
schleshmaghni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sete	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
shadagrantha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shadgrantha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shadgranthaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
shadgranthagolomi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shataparvaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
shataparvika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shicangpu	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 2. (2009)
shu dag	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
shu dak	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
shuichangpu	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
shuǐ chāng pú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
skha waja	Other	Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006) Non-Timber Forest Prod. in Swat, Pakistan (Bilal et al., 2020) Pl. for Snake and Scorpion Bite in N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015)
skhawaja	Other	Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010) High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014) Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020) Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003) Med. Pl. in Mountainous Chail Valley, Pakistan (Ahmad et al., 2014) Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Hussain et al., 2006) Sustainable Use of Med. & Arom. Pl. Pakistan (Sher et al., 2017) Weeds & Med. Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Islam et al., 2006)
skhuwaja	Other	Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
smarani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sripadi	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
su dag	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
su-dag	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sweet calamus	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sweet cane	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sweet fig	Other	Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003)
sweet flag	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 2. (2009) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
sweet grass	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sweet rush	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sweet sage	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
sweet sedge	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 2. (2009)
sweet-flag	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sweetflag	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sweetroot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
syede	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
the sweet flag	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
thit	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
thủy xương bồ	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
tibet sweetflag rhizome	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
tikshna	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tikshnagandhaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
tikshnapatra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tǔ chāng pú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
u-bet	Other	Med. Pl. of Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, India (Kayang, 2005)
ugraa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
ugragandha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ugragandhaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
ugragandhaha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ugragandhā	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
ugragranthi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ugrā	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
ukkirakantai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ukkiri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
umiyal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
uraippan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
uromakkilanku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vaashambu	Other	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
vaca	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
vacai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vacampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vacar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vacavaci	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vach	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Med. Pl. by Vanraji Tribes of Kumaun Himalaya (Bhatt et al., 2013)
vacha	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
vacha-ugra-gandhaha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vachaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
vacā (rhizome)	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
vadaja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vaembu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vaj	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
vajj or vaj	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
varch	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
variegated sweet flag	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
vasa	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
vasamboo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vasambu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
vasampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vash	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vashambu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vashampa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vashanapa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vayambhu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vayambu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
vayampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vekhand	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vekhanda	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
vekhandas	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
vekuvacamutaiyayoki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vekuvacamutaiyoki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
veni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
verkkattai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vicamattiri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vijaya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
wada kaha	Other	Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
wadakaha	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
waj	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
waj turki	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
waj-e-turki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
waja	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
waja-e-turki	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
wajae turki	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
wan nam	Other	Pl. Used in Phatthalung Province, Thailand (Maneenoon et al., 2015)
wasa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
zangchangpu	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
аїр	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)
шавар	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)
قصب الذريرة‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
وج	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
වදකහ	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
ཤུ་དག །	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
ṣaḍgranthā	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
‫جوزة الشرك	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
土菖蒲	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
大叶菖蒲	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
水劍草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
水菖蒲	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
泥菖蒲	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
白菖	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
白菖蒲	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
藏菖蒲	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
Root		High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014)
Rhizome		Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Rhizome		Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003)
Rhizome		MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017)
Root		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Rhizome		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Root, stem		Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
Rhizome		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Roots, Whole plant		Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
Rhizome		Pl. for Snake and Scorpion Bite in N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015)
Root		Med. Pl. in Mountainous Chail Valley, Pakistan (Ahmad et al., 2014)
Rhizome	Oil	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Roots		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
Rhizome		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rhizome		Pl. for Digestion by Karen of N Thailand (Tangjitman et al., 2015)
rhizoma, root stock		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Rhizome		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
Rhizome		Non-Timber Forest Prod. in Swat, Pakistan (Bilal et al., 2020)
Leaves, roots		Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020)
rhizomes		Sustainable Use of Med. & Arom. Pl. Pakistan (Sher et al., 2017)
Rhizome		Weeds & Med. Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Islam et al., 2006)
Rhizome		Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010)
Rhizome		NTFPS in Swat, Pakistan (Latif et al., 2006)
Whole plant		Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006)
leaf, flower		Med. Pl. by Vanraji Tribes of Kumaun Himalaya (Bhatt et al., 2013)
leaves		Med. Pl. of Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, India (Kayang, 2005)
rhizome		Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010)
rhizome	oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
rhizome	dry plant material	Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
root		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
	oil	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
rhizome		Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
rhizome		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Root		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacopoeia Helvetica (Swissmedic, 2006)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
rhizome	dried rhizome plant	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
root	vegetal drug, powdered drug, tincture	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
rhizome	essential oil	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
Root (Rhizome)		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
rhizome		Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 2. (2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 1 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Calamus aromaticus Garsault Fig. Pl. Méd.: t. 40 (1764), opus utique oppr.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Acarus calamus Linn.	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
Acorus calamus	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Herbal Recipes Liver Cirrhosis (Wijayagunawardanea et al., 2015) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010) Med. Pl. in Russia & C Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005) Med. Pl., Trad. Med., Markets in Nepal (Kunwar et al., 2013) NTFPS in Swat, Pakistan (Latif et al., 2006) Non-Timber Forest Prod. in Swat, Pakistan (Bilal et al., 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Acorus calamus (L.)	Med. Pl. of Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, India (Kayang, 2005)
Acorus calamus L	Pharmacopoeia Helvetica (Swissmedic, 2006)
Acorus calamus L.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Ethnobot. Relevance of Weed Flora, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2016) Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) Ethnobot. of Swat Valley, Pakistan (Ali et al., 2018) Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010) Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006) Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbal Sector of Serbia (Stevanovic, 2011) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014) Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020) MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017) Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 2. (2009) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997) Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Med. Pl. by Vanraji Tribes of Kumaun Himalaya (Bhatt et al., 2013) Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Med. Pl. in Mountainous Chail Valley, Pakistan (Ahmad et al., 2014) Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) Pl. Used in Phatthalung Province, Thailand (Maneenoon et al., 2015) Pl. for Digestion by Karen of N Thailand (Tangjitman et al., 2015) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) Pl. for Snake and Scorpion Bite in N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015) Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Hussain et al., 2006) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) Sustainable Use of Med. & Arom. Pl. Pakistan (Sher et al., 2017) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) Weeds & Med. Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Islam et al., 2006) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Acorus calamus Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
Acorus calamus Linnaeus	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Acorus calamus linn	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
Acurus calamus	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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