Kaempferia rotunda
Perennial Herb ca. 30 cm high; pseudostems absent. Leaves simple, distichous, lanceolate, 20-25 by 10-15 cm, base attenuate, apex acute, margin entire, upper surface dark green with dark green and white stripe, densely pubescent, lower surface pale green with dark red or orange dark red along midrib, glabrous; petiole ca. 30 cm long. Inflorescence on separate shoots arising from rhizome, appearing before vegetative part; peduncle subsessile. Flowers 4-5 several, white; subsessile. Sepals tube 3.2-4 by 0.6-0.8 cm, split on 1 side, base amplexicaul, apex acute, white with violet at apex. Petals; tube tubular, 3.3-4.5 cm long; lobes 3, linear, 3.7-4.5 by 0.2-0.3 cm, apex acute, white. Stamens; lateral staminodes 2, obovate-oblong, 3-3.7 by 1.5-1.7 cm, base cuneate, apex acute-obtuse, white; labellum spatulate, 4-4.2 cm long, apically 2-cleft, 1.5-1.6 cm long, violet and v-shape white band at dorsal; anther oblong, 0.5-0.6 cm long, yellowish; anther crest oblanceolate, 1-1.2 by 0.3-0.5 cm, apex 2 minute lobes white. Pistil 1; stylodial gland 2, 5-6 mm long, white; ovary inferior, syncarpous, 3 carpels, 3 locules; style 5-5.5 cm long, white; stigma obconical, ca. 1 mm long, with hairy margin, exsert above anther crest, white.
- Dry root is pounded and used as liniment around wound and eaten ½ teaspoon to treat wound.
- One or three roots are fresh eaten and then drink water, or is pounded and used as poultice, or dry root is ground and eaten ½ teaspoons and then drink water to treat bruised.
- Root is pounded and used as poultice to treat haemostatic .
- Four or five sliced or three roots is fresh eaten and then drinking water to treat stomachache.
- Root is cooked with chicken soup and eaten to treat stomachache.
- Root is cooked with chicken soup and eaten as tonic.
- Root decoction is used as drinking to treat uterine prolapsed.