Plant Details

Accepted name:: Hedychium spicatum Sm. [Zingiberaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ban-haldi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
cao guo yao	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
ekangi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
gablakachari	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
gandha kachuralu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
gandhaarikaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
gandhamuulikaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
gandhamūlikā	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
gandhapalaashi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
gandhashathi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
gandhasunthi	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
gandhavadhuu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
goul kachora	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kacholam	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
kachoor	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kachora	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kachri	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kachur	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kafur kachri	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
kantapalci	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
kapoor kachri	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
kapoorkachara	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kapur kachri	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
kapurakachari	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kapurkachali	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kapurkachri	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kapuurkachari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
karpura kacchali	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
katcholam	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
katchooram	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
katuri	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kichili kizongu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kichilikizangu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
pankha phul	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
poolankizangu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
saisya	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
sandharlika	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sanna	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sathi	Other	Med. Pl. by Vanraji Tribes of Kumaun, India (Bhatt et al., 2013)
sati	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
seenakachora	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
seta sara	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
shathi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
shati	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
shimai-kich-chilik-kizhangu	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
spiked ginger lily	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
spiked ginger-lily	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
suvrataa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
takhellei	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tariya	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
tu liang jiang	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
śathī	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
śaṭī (rhizome)	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
土良姜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
草果药	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome		Med. Pl. by Vanraji Tribes of Kumaun, India (Bhatt et al., 2013)
rhizome	essential oil from rhizome, oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
rhizome, fruit		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
rhizome	sliced, dried rhizome	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
Root (Rhizome)		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Hedychium acuminatum Roscoe Monandr. Pl. Scitam.: t. 47 (1824).
Gandasulium sieboldii (Wall.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 690 (1891).
Gandasulium spicatum (Sm.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 690 (1891).
Hedychium album Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 325 (1853).
Hedychium flavescens Lodd. ex Lindl. J. Hort. Soc. London 7: 281 (1852), nom. illeg.
Hedychium sieboldii Wall. Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 371 (1853).
Hedychium spicatum var. acuminatum (Roscoe) Wall. Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 328 (1853).
Hedychium spicatum var. khasianum C.B.Clarke ex Baker in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 6: 227 (1892).
Hedychium spicatum var. trilobum (Wall. ex Roscoe) Wall. Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 328 (1853).
Hedychium tavoyanum Horan. Prodr. Monogr. Scitam.: 26 (1862).
Hedychium trilobum Wall. ex Roscoe Monandr. Pl. Scitam.: t. 48 (1826).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Hedychium acuminatum Roscoe	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Hedychium spicatum	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Hedychium spicatum Buch.-Ham.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Hedychium spicatum Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.	Med. Pl. by Vanraji Tribes of Kumaun, India (Bhatt et al., 2013)
Hedychium spicatum Buch.-Ham. ex Smith	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Hedychium spicatum Ham. Ex Smith	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Hedychium spicatum Ham. ex Smith	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Hedychium spicatum Ham. ex Smith.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Hedychium spicatum Sm.	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) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Hedychium spicatum Smith	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)

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