Rhizome to 10 × 0.5-1.7 cm. Leaves 10-60 × 0.15-1 cm, glabrous, margin scabrid. Scape (20--)35-100 cm, glabrous. Raceme 10-50 cm; bracts ovate or ovate-orbicular, apex often long acuminate. Perianth segments pink, pale purple, or white, linear or narrowly oblong, 5-10 × 1-1.5 mm, persistent in fruit. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm. Style ca. 1 mm. Capsule 0.8-1.5 × 0.3-0.6 cm including beaked apex, prominently 6-angled. Seeds black, narrowly oblong-elliptic, slightly curved, 7-12 × 2.5-3 mm.

Anti-fungal, antiseptic, bitter, diuretic, expectorant, febrifuge, hypoglycaemic, laxative, lenitive, sedative and tonic (rhizome); antiinflammatory, antipyretic, depurative, peristaltic.

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Asphonin, mangiferin, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, protocatechuic acid, (rhizome); isomangiferin (plant)

For fevers accompanied with dryness in the lungs, stomach or kidneys, ulcers, cancer, childbirth, cough, diabetes, dysentery, fever, hyperglycemia, inflammation, lumbago, morning sickness, osteosis, pneumonia, scarlet fever, spermatorrhea, tuberculosis, typhoid, typhus, vertigo.