Turmeric Root or Curcuma Root,Phytochemicals and Applications.
Contents:
- Basic Botanical Data and Identification of Turmeric Root.Curcuma Root.
- Description of Turmeric Root.Curcuma Root.
- Origin of Curcuma root.
- Curcuma Root Appearance and characters.
- Powdered plant material of Curcuma Root.
- Chemical assays and Phytochemicals of Turmeric Root.Curcuma Root.
- Medicinal uses of Turmeric Root.Curcuma Root.
- Experimental pharmacology of Turmeric Root.Curcuma Root.
- Functions of Turmeric Root.Curcuma Root.
- Curcuma Root Suggestions and Administrations.
- Literature from Chinese historical sources:Curcuma Root.
- Modern Researches of Turmeric Root.Curcuma Root.
- Curcuma longa Common Application.
- Dose escalation of a curcuminoid formulation.
- Effect of Curcuma longa and Ocimum sanctum on myocardial apoptosis in experimentally induced myocardial ischemic-reperfusion injury.
- Quality control including chromatographic fingerprint profiling.
- Research Update:Curcumae Longae.Curcuma longa.
Curcuma Root Appearance and characters.
The primary rhizome is ovate, oblong or pear-shaped round turmeric, while the secondary rhizome is often short-branched long turmeric; the round form is about half as broad as long; the long form is from 2-5 cm long and 1-1.8 cm thick; externally yellowish to yellowish brown, with root scars and annulations, the latter from the scars of leaf bases; fracture horny; internally orange- yellow to orange; waxy, showing a cortex separated from a central cylinder by a distinct endodermis
Smell:Odour, aromatic; taste, warmly aromatic and bitter. Drug when chewed colours the saliva yellow.
Reference:
1.Turmeric Root or Curcuma Root,Phytochemicals and Applications.
last edit date:8th,Mar.2010.
- Name:Curcuma Root Extract
- Serie No:R088.
- Specifications:10:1 TLC.
- INCI Name:CURCUMA LONGA EXTRACT
- EINECS/ELINCS No.:283-882-1
- CAS:84775-52-0
- Chem/IUPAC Name:Curcuma Longa Extract is an extract of the rhizomes of the turmeric, Curcuma longa, Zingiberaceae





