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Zedoary Root (Curcuma zedoaria)

• Pain in the chest, abdominal pain during menstruation,
• liver diseases, hepatoprotective, gall diseases, jaundice, cholelithiasis,
• hematemesis, epistaxis, retrograde menstruation,
• improves immunity in patients with cancer,
• protect the leucocytes against X-radiation,
• used in the treatment of ovarian carcinoma, skin cancer, malignant lymphoma, gastric carcinoma, lung carcinoma, cancer chemopreventive agent,
• very expressed free-radical scavenging effect,
• protects against oxidative stress,
• inhibits prostaglandin E2 biosynthesis,
• effects on human macrophage function,
• analgesic,
• inhibition of macrophage TNF-alpha release,
• protective role in ethanol intoxication,
• inhibition of HIV-1 integrase,
• anticlastogenic effects,
• antimutagenic.

Zhimu (Anemarrhena asphodeloides)

• Antibacterial activity,
• excellent hypoglycemic activity, diabetes,
• testosterone 5alpha-reductase inhibitory activity,
• urinary problems, diuretic, prostate,
• improving memory,
• sarsasapogenin showed a monoamine oxidase inhibitory activity in the mouse brain,
• antidepressant activity of sarsasapogenin may involve the central monoaminergic neurotransmitter systems, promotion of bone formation.