What are the effects and functions of Curcuma zedoaria

Curcuma is an herb native to the Indus River in Indonesia. The rhizome of Curcuma can be used as a Chinese herbal medicine and is very effective in treating abdominal distension and pain, indigestion, and blood stasis. Curcuma can also be used to improve the body's immune function, but you must know how to use it correctly.

【Nature, flavor and efficacy】

It tastes bitter and spicy and is warm in nature. Efficacy: Break up blood and remove blood stasis, eliminate accumulation and disperse nodules.

【Pharmacological action】

(I) Immune activation and leukocyte enhancement

Curcuma oil can change and enhance the immunogenicity of tumor cells, thereby inducing and promoting the immune rejection reaction of antibodies to tumors. Mice treated with zedoary oil were actively immunized and were able to survive for a long time after being attacked by 100,000 L615 leukemia cells. This suggests that Curcuma zedoaria can enhance the host's specific immune function through the immune system and obtain obvious immune protection effects.

Injection of zedoary oil and zedoary alcohol into mice could significantly counteract the leukopenia induced by cyclophosphamide. Promote the recovery of white blood cells. It also has a significant protective effect on leukocytopenia caused by X-ray irradiation in rats.

(II) Anti-cancer

Subcutaneous injection of Wen Curcuma injection, curcumol and curcumadione all have high inhibition rates on mouse S180 and U14.ECa (mouse ascites cancer).

2) Antithrombotic

Curcuma has anticoagulant and antithrombotic effects. It can prolong the time of thrombus formation, shorten its length, reduce its weight, and weaken its platelet aggregation function. But it has no effect on the bone marrow's function of producing platelets.

(IV) Protecting the liver and kidneys

Curcuma oil has a significant protective effect on liver damage in mice caused by carbon tetrachloride, and can significantly reduce the retention of SGPT and BSP in animals. There are also corresponding improvements in pathology.