Khasiat Lampoyang

Klasifikasi 

Nama Vernakular : Lampoyang, Lempoyang, Tepus
Nama Botani : zingiber zerumbet L
Famili : Zingiberaceae

Luiang-usiu is a smooth, erect, herbaceous plant. Rootstocks are large and tuberous, pale yellow within. Leafy stem is 0.6 to 2 meters high. Leaves are numerous, distichous, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 15 to 30 centimeters long, 5 to 8 centimeters wide. Flowering stem from the rootstock is 10 to 30 centimeters long, clothed with long, appressed, obtuse sheaths, bearing at the apex an ovoid, oblong, or cylindric spike, red or green in color, 5 to 20 centimeters long. Bracts are numerous, imbricate, orbicular, 2 to 3 centimeters long, greenish, merging into red, and holding water. Flowers are 5 centimeters long, white or cream colored, the tube as long as the bracts, with 3-lobed lips. Fruit is oblong, about 2.5 centimeters long. Seeds are oblong, black, about 4 millimeters in diameter.
Distribution
– From norther Luzon to Mindanao, in most islands and provinces, In thickets and near settlements at low and medium altitudes.
– A native of tropical Asia.
– Now pantropic.

Constituents
– Volatile oils of the rhizomes contain zerumbone, humulene and camprene.
– Studies have isolated bioactive compounds: humulene, monoterpenes, zerumbone from the essential oil.
– (Z)-nerolidol have been isolated from extracts of stems, leaves, and flowers.
– Ethanol extract has yielded sesquiterpene and zederone.
– Aqueous extract has yielded phenolic compounds, saponins and terpenoids.
– Study isolated two aromatic compounds, p-hydroxybenzaldehyde and vanillin, and six kaempferol derivatives from the rhizomes.
– Preliminary phytochemical analysis of rhizomes revealed glycosides, sterols, triterpenes, saponins, tannins, carbohydrates, proteins, amino acids, and volatile oils. (23)
– Study of leaf oil yielded 29 components with major components of zerumbone 36.98%, α-caryophyllene 16.35%, and camphene 9.24%. Rhizome oil yielded major components of zerumbone 46.83%, α-caryophyllene 19.00%, and 1,5,5,8-tetramethyl-12-oxabicyclo[9.1.0]dodeca-3,7-diene 4.28%. (27)  

Properties
– Considered antihyperglycemic, antiinflammatory, antiulcer, antioxidant, anti-platelet activating factor, antimicrobial.

Parts utilized
Rhizome.

Uses
Edibility
– Used as food flavoring and appetizer in various Malays’ cuisines.
Folkloric
– In the Philippines, decoction is prescribed for asthma, and as a topical for rheumatism.
– Pulverized rhizome also used for diarrhea.
– The fluid squeezed from the swollen ends of club-shaped stems is used for shampoo.
– Rhizome is used like the common ginger, as a remedy for coughs, asthma, parasitism, and variety of skin diseases.
– In China, used for stomach aches, tonic and stimulant.
– Malays use the fresh rhizome for edema, stomach aches, sores. The juice of boiled rhizomes are used to treat worm infestation in children.
– In Thailand, fresh rhizomes are used as antiflatulent.
– In China, rhizomes macerated in alcohol are used as tonic, depurative, stimulant.
– In Taiwan, plant used as antiinflammatory adjuvant for stomach pains, fever and sprains.
– In India, rhizome powder mixed with Morinda citrifolia used for severe pain. Cooked and softened rhizome used for toothache, asthma, cough, worms, leprosy and other skin diseases.
– In Hawaii, compressed rhizomes used for bruises and cuts and to treat headaches, toothaches, ringworm, joint sprains. The milky juice from the pine cones are used as shampoo.
– In Southeast Asia, used for fever, toothache, loss of appetite, constipation and pain.
Latino healers in NY use ZZ for uterine fibroids.
Others
– Perfume: Powdered rhizomes used as perfume.

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