Plant Details

Accepted name:: Kaempferia galanga L. [Zingiberaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aromatic ginger	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
black thorn	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
candramula	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
candrani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cekur	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999)
chandramoola	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandramula	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandramulika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chekur	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
chundramoolika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
corakah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
east lndies galingale	Other	Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
ga dra	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
galanga	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
galanga resurrectionlily rhizome	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
galangal	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999)
indische gewürzlilie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
inguru piyali	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
java galangal	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
kaccolam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaccoli k-kilanku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaccoram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaccuri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kachchura	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kachhola kilangu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kachhoora	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kachhuram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kacholum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kachora	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
kachoram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kachri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kachulakalanga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kacora	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaempferia	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
kaempferia galanga	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Les Plantes Arom. et Med. (Bremness, 1996) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
kaempferia rhizome	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999)
kaempferiae rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
kapoor kachri no 1	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
kapur-kacheri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kapurkachri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karcurah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katcolam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katjulam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katsjula kelengu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katsjula-kekengu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kencur	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
kentjur	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
kotsjolam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lesser galanga	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
maraba	Other	Les Plantes Arom. et Med. (Bremness, 1996)
narkachur	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
pro hom	Other	Pl. Used in Phatthalung Province, Thailand (Maneenoon, 2015)
pulankilanku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
resurrection lily	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
rhizoma kaempferiae	Pharmaceutical	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
sadi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sand ginger	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sathi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sga 'dra	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
shan mi	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
shan nai	Other	TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
shannai	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
sidhoul	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sime-kich-chilik	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sugandhamula	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sugandhavacha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
སྒ་འདྲ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
山奈	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
山柰	Other	TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Rhizome		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
Rhizome		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
root-stocks		Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
rhizome		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
Root		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
underground parts		Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 8 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Kaempferia latifolia Donn ex Hornem. Hort. Bot. Hafn. 1: 6 (1813).
Alpinia sessilis J.Koenig in A.J.Retzius, Observ. Bot. 3: 64 (1783).
Kaempferia galanga var. latifolia (Donn ex Hornem.) Donn Hortus Cantabrig., ed. 6: 3 (1841).
Kaempferia humilis Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 6 (1796).
Kaempferia marginata Carey ex Roscoe Monandr. Pl. Scitam.: t. 93 (1824).
Kaempferia plantaginifolia Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 286 (1812).
Kaempferia procumbens Noronha Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 5(4): 19 (1790), nom. nud.
Kaempferia rotunda Blanco Fl. Filip.: 5 (1837), nom. illeg.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Kaempferia galanga	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
Kaempferia galanga L.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (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 Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Les Plantes Arom. et Med. (Bremness, 1996) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999) Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Used in Phatthalung Province, Thailand (Maneenoon, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Kaempferia galanga Linn.	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999) SOTWP 2016: Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa (2015)
Kaempferia latifolia (Dunn) Y.H.Chen	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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