Plant Details

Accepted name:: Wurfbainia vera (Blackw.) Škorničk. & A.D.Poulsen [Zingiberaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
amomi fructus rotundus	Pharmaceutical	Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007) Pharmacop. of China (2015)
amomi rotundus fructus	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacop. of China (2010)
bai dou kou	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
baidoukou	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
báidòukòu	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
bạch đậu khấu	Other	Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
cambodian cardamom	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cardamom	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
chinese cardamom	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
cluster cardamon	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
comphorseed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
dou kou	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
doukou	Other	Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015)
fructus amomi kravanh	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
fructus amomi rotundus	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
pai tou kou	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
pak tow khow	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
round amomum fruit	Other	Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007)
round cardamom	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
round cardamom fruit	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
round cardamon fruit	Other	Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010)
round siam cardamom	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
white-fruit amomum	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
白豆蔻	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
豆蔻	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
豆蔻壳	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
豆蔻花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacop. of China (2010)
fruit		Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Fruit		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
fruit		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Fruit		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Seed		Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
fruit		Korean Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007)
fruit	ripe fruit	Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Amomum krervanh Pierre ex Gagnep. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 53: 138 (1906), nom. superfl.
Amomum verum Blackw. Herb. Blackwell.: t. 371 (1757).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Amomum kravanh Pierre ex Gagnep.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Korean Pharmacop., 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacop., 9th edn. (2007) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Amomum kravanh Pirre ex Gagnep.	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
Amomum krervahn Pierre	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Amomum krervanh	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Amomum krervanh Pierre	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
Amomum krervanh Pierre ex Gagnep.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Amomum krevanh	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Amomun kravanh Pierre ex Gagnep	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Amonum kravanh	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Wurfbainia vera (Blackw.) Skornick. & A.D.Poulsen	WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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