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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ethnobotanical Plant Zingiber zerumbet

Common Name
Lampuyang gajah, Lampuyang kebo, Lampuyang paek, Lampuyang kapoer, Zerumbet Ginger, Lampuyang

Activities

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Ache(Head) Hawaii *
Ache(Stomach) Samoa *
Ache(Stomach) Elsewhere *
Ache(Stomach) Java *
Ache(Tooth) Hawaii *
Ache(Tooth) New Guinea *
Antiseptic Egypt Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Apertif Java *
Asthma Elsewhere *
Asthma India(Santal) *
Asthma Egypt Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Bactericide Elsewhere *
Bilious Java *
Bronchitis India(Santal) *
Burn New Guinea *
Chest Samoa *
Cough Fiji Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Cough Egypt Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Cough Elsewhere *
Dermatitis Samoa *