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Hedychium, Shathi

Spiked Ginger Lily
Shati, Gandashathi (Ayurveda)
Kapurkachari (Unani)
Poolankizangu (Siddha)
Sga Skya 
སྒ་སྐྱ  (Tibetan)
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Hedychium spicatum
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (Illustration: Hooker), 1830

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Hedychium spicatum
(Photo by peganum) (Wikimedia)

Botanical name:
Hedychium spicatum (syn. H. album)
NOTE: In Ayurveda, Unani and Tibetan Medicine, this medicine is used synonymously with Kaempferia galanga

Parts used:
Rhizomes; leaf

Temperature & Taste:
Warm, dry. Pungent

Uses:
1. Clears Phlegm, Stops Cough:
-Cough, Asthma

2. Clears Wind-Phlegm, Stops Spasms:
-Wind-Phlegm disorders in Tibetan Medicine
-Wind-Phlegm disorders affecting the Head and Nerves
-Wind diseases affecting the Heart

3. Warms the Stomach, Clears Cold:
-Nausea, Vomiting, Indigestion
-Loss of Appetite
-Hiccup

4. Moves the Blood:
-promotes circulation, clears stasis caused by Cold or Phlegm

5. Externally:
-as a paste applied to Inflammation and Rheumatism
-promotes hair growth
-used to repel insects


DOSE:
1–3 grams of the Powder

SUBSTITUTES:
1. Kaempferia galanga in Kerala (Unani)
2. Zedoary

Main Combinations:
1. Bronchial Asthma, Hedychium Shathi with Inula racemosa, Emblic Myrobalan and Honey (Charaka)
2. Asthma, Hedychium Shathi with Inula racemosa, Ginger, Long Pepper, Cyperus rotundus and Adhatoda vasica
3. Vata/Wind Heart diseases, Hedychium Shathi with Boerhovia diffusa, Ginger and Chebulic Myrobalan with Ghee
4. Tonic for children, Hedychium Shathi with White Pepper, Red Coral, Borax, Saffron, taken with milk or honey; good for fever, cough, indigestion (Ayurveda)
5. Topically for Rheumatic pain, Hedychium Shathi with Ginger as a paste

Cautions:
1. Not used in Yin deficiency

Main Preparations used:

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