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Kaempferia parviflora, the Thai black ginger, Thai ginseng or krachai dum, is an herbaceous plant in the family Zingiberaceae, native to Thailand.Kaempferia parviflora has been the subject of increased scientific interest in recent years.
Kaempferia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It is native to China, India, and Southeast Asia. [1] [2] [3]The genus is named after the naturalist and traveller Engelbert Kaempfer, who lived in Japan and east Asia for the years 1689-1693 and was one of the first Europeans to write detailed descriptions of plants there.
Kaempferia galanga, commonly known as kencur, aromatic ginger, sand ginger, cutcherry, is a monocotyledonous plant in the ginger family, and one of four plants called galangal. It is found primarily in open areas in Indonesia , southern China , Taiwan , Cambodia , and India , but is also widely cultivated throughout Southeast Asia .
Kaempferia parviflora (Thai ginseng, krachai dum) Lepidium meyenii (Peruvian ginseng, maca) Oplopanax horridus (Alaskan ginseng) Pfaffia paniculata (Brazilian ginseng, suma) Pseudostellaria heterophylla (Prince ginseng) Schisandra chinensis (five-flavoured berry) Trichopus zeylanicus (Kerala ginseng) Withania somnifera (Indian ginseng, ashwagandha)
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Zingiberaceae (/ ˌ z ɪ n dʒ ɪ b ɪ ˈ r eɪ s i. iː /) or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species [4] of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.