Top Quality Sharpleaf Galangal Fruit

Sharpleaf Galangal Fruit

  Perennial plant, one to three metres high. Rhizome elongation. Stems erect, tufted. Leaves 2-row, shortly petiolate; Leaf Blade Lanceolate, 20-35 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, Apex caudate-pointed, base broadly Cuneate, margin with deciduous Brock hairs, remnants serrulate, dark green above, Pale Green below, glabrous on both surfaces; Ligule membranous, 1-1.5 cm long, Pale Brown sparsely pilose. Racemes terminal, inflorescence Rachis Brown, 10-15 cm long, shortly hairy, with a ring of bracts at lower end, enclosing Rachis, pedicel 1-2 mm long; bracteoles very short, membranous, Brown; Calyx tube-shaped, 1.2 cm long, dehiscing to middle, APEX 3-toothed, corolla tube Ca. 1 cm, lobes 3, Oblong, Ca. 1.8 cm, upper piece slightly larger, apex slightly cucullate, outer sparsely short hairy, labellum obovate, Ca. 2 cm long, pink-white, with Red Stripes, Apex obtuse 3-lobed; staminode awl-shaped, ovary inferior, ovoid, densely Tomentose, 3-loculed, with ovules 8-9 per locule, style linear, stigma capitate, 2 epistatic glands, clavate. Capsule ellipsoid to Fusiform, 1.5 ~ 2 cm long, sparsely hairy, surface with fiber bundle lines, petiole short. FLORESCENCE 3 ~ 5 months. Fruit period 5 ~ 6 months.

  It grows in damp forests. Distributed in Hainan and southern Guangdong. Mainly produced in Guangdong.

  The dried fruit is spindle-shaped or ellipsoid, 1.5-2 cm long and 1-12 cm in diameter. The Rind is Reddish Brown to gray, with 13 ~ 18 longitudinal discontinuous protuberances. Skin thin and slightly leathery, adherent to seed. The seeds are grouped into 3 segments with 6 ~ 11 seeds in each segment. The seeds are irregularly oblate and obtuse, about 3 mm in diameter and 1.5 mm in thickness, and the surface is grayish brown or grayish yellow Cracked inside for the white, pink, special smell, taste slightly bitter.

Function indications:

  warm the spleen, warm the kidney, consolidate Qi, astringent essence. Treatment of cold gas abdominal pain, vomiting diarrhea in the cold, more saliva, spermatorrhea, urine Yu Li, more urine at night.

Pharmacological Action:

1. NOOTKATOL has the effect of antagonizing calcium activity.

2. Yakuchinion a has a psychotonic effect.

3. It can resist cancer and control the contraction of Ileum.

4. The alcohol extract of fruit of Alpinia Oxyphylla may inhibit prostaglandin.

5. Nootkatone 20mg / kg significantly inhibited gastric ulcer in rats.

6. Alpinia Oxyphylla can increase the white blood cells of mice.