{"id":2147,"date":"2013-05-10T04:29:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T04:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2013-05-10T04:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T04:31:03","slug":"lemongrass-cymbopogon-flexuosus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=2147","title":{"rendered":"Lemongrass ~ Cymbopogon flexuosus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Lemongrass<a href=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cymbopogon-flexuosus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2148\" title=\"Cymbopogon flexuosus\" src=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cymbopogon-flexuosus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: <strong>Cymbopogon flexuosus<\/strong> (East Indian, native to India) and <strong>C. citrates<\/strong> (West Indian, native to southern India and Ceylon)<\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Poaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: leaves, fresh or partly dried<a href=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cymbopogon-flexuosus1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2149\" title=\"Cymbopogon flexuosus1\" src=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Cymbopogon-flexuosus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: sandy soil of tropics and subtropics<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: aldehyde (citral), terpineol, myrcene, citronellol, methyl heptenone, dipentene, geraniol, limonene, nerol, and farnesol<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: warming<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: carminative; antimicrobial, oil acts as a central nervous system depressant (C. citrates); antifungal (C. flexuosus)<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: insect repellent<\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: sinus tissue support (Khalsa), volatile oils may have pesticide and mutagenic activities<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: colitis, indigestion, fever, headaches<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: plant extract, steam distilled essential oil<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: safe<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: http:\/\/www.hort.purdue.edu\/newcrop\/med-aro\/factsheets\/LEMONGRASS.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lemongrass Latin name: Cymbopogon flexuosus (East Indian, native to India) and C. citrates (West Indian, native to southern India and Ceylon) Family: Poaceae Part used: leaves, fresh or partly dried Habitat: sandy soil of tropics and subtropics Main constituents: aldehyde (citral), terpineol, myrcene, citronellol, methyl heptenone, dipentene, geraniol, limonene, nerol, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,72,184,512,92,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antimicrobial","category-carminative","category-cns-depressant","category-module-3","category-warming","category-western-herbs","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}