Plant Costus speciosus (Costaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Crepe Ginger; Wild Ginger; Cane Reed

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
TRIACONTANOL	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Chemopreventive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	2	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	1	HerbalGram No. 24, page 37.
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytotoxic	2	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Demulcent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Deodorant	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Emollient	1	Martindale's 29th
Estrogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.