A herb with branched rhizome, outside dark yellow to reddish-brown, inside orange or orange-red. Leaf sheaths up to 75 cm long, blades elliptical-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 25-100 cm x 8-20 cm, green with a reddish-brown band along the midrib. Inflorescence on a separate shoot, bracts pale green, coma bracts purple; corolla 4-6 cm long, pale red. Labellum 2-2.5 cm x 1.5-2 cm, yellowish with a darker yellow median band, other staminodes longitudinally folded, yellowish-white, anther with long spurs.
Herb Effects
As antiviral and antiinflammatory (rhizome); galactagogue (decoction of rhizome)
Used to treat various abdominal complaints and liver disorders specially in jaundice, gallstones and for promoting the flow of bile (rhizome); as a remedy for fever, constipation, bloody diarrhea, dysentery, inflammation of the rectum, hemorrhoids, stomach disorders caused by cold, infected wounds, skin eruptions, acne vulgaris, eczema, smallpox and anorexia, and used by women to lessen uterine inflammation after giving birth (decoction of rhizome); for indigestion and rheumatism (infusion of dried rhizome).
Health Remedies 
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