Overzicht van en bijdrage tot de kennis van medicinale curcuma (temoe lawak)

In native medicine in Java "temu lawak", the Malay name of one or more Curcuma species, is very popular as a remedy for liver and galldiseases; further it is used by women in childbed and for disorder of the stomach and the intestinal organs. With the purpose to study the culture and to examine the botanical, chemical and pharmacological properties of this plant and also to bring more uniformity into the official Latin nomenclature the Government of the Netherlands East Indies decided in 1937 to lay out a cultivation on a surface of 1 hectare on the "Gouvernements Gutta-percha Onderneming", at Tjipetir (35 km S.S. West of Buitenzorg). .... Zie: Summar