PRODUCT DESCRIBTION
Plant introduction:
Turmeric, also known as Yu Jin, Baoding Xiang, Hao life, yellow ginger, etc., belongs to the order of Plana, ginger family, turmeric perennial herbs, plant height of 1~1.5m, roots are very developed, thick roots, the end of the expanded tuber root; Leaf blade oblong or elliptic, leaf tip short acuminate; Bracts ovate or oblong, pale green, apical blunt, corolla pale yellow; Flowering time: August.
Plant height 1-1.5 m, rhizomes very developed, clump, many branches, oval or cylindrical, orange-yellow, very fragrant; The roots are stout and tuberous. Leaves 5-7 per plant, oblong or elliptic, 30-45 (90) cm long and 15-18 cm wide, apex short acuminate, base narrow, green, glabrous on both sides; The petiole is 20-45 cm long. The scape is drawn from the sheath, 12 -- 20 cm long; Spikes cylindrical, 12-18 cm long, 4-9 cm in diameter; Bracts ovate or oblong, 3-5 cm long, pale green, apical obtuse, narrower upper unflowered, apical apical, spreading, white, margin tinged with light red; Calyx 8-12 mm long, white, with unequal obtuse 3-teeth, puberulent; Corolla light yellow, tube up to 3 cm long, swollen upper, triangular lobes, 1-1.5 cm long, rear 1 slightly larger, with a fine cusp; Lateral staminodes are shorter than labellum, connected to filaments and base of labellum into tubes; Lip obovate, 1.2 -- 2 cm long, light yellow, middle dark yellow, anthers glabrous, anthers base with 2 angular distance; Ovary puberulum.
Active Ingredients:
It mainly contains curcumin, demethylcurcumin, didemethoxycurcumin, volatile oil and so on. Volatile oils include curcumin, gingerolene, cresine, 1, 81-cineole, sabinene, camphor, dehydrocurcumin, etc.