Curcuma (aroma)

Vide etiam paginam fere homonymam: Curcuma

Rhizoma (radix) Curcumae longae unde provenit curcuma

Curcuma seu crocus Indicus (ita ob colorem, minime ob formam, appellatus) est aroma, pigmentum et medicamentum quod e radice speciei Curcumae longae provenit. Phenola curcuminoidea tria continet, videlicet curcuminum, desmethoxycurcuminum et bisdesmethoxycurcuminum.

Fontes antiqui et mediaevales

• Theophrastus, De odoribus 33
• Dioscorides, Materia medica 1.5
• Plinius, Naturalis historia 21.117

Bibliographia

Scientifica

• Ishita Chattopadhyay, Kaushik Biswas, Uday Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit K. Banerjee, "Turmeric and curcumin: Biological actions and medicinal applications" in Current Science (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2004) vol. 87 pp. 44–53
• M. Niu, S. Wu, L. Mao, Y. Yang, "CRM1 Is a Cellular Target of Curcumin: New Insights for the Myriad of Biological Effects of an Ancient Spice" in Traffic vol. 14 (2013) pp. 1042–1052 Epitome

Unam legis e paginis de

aromatibus

disserentibus

---

Aromata

• Cardamomum
• Chili
• Cinnamomum
• Curcuma
• Galanga
• Papeda
• Saccharum
• Vanilla
• Zedoaria rotunda
• Zingiber

Plantae

• Alpinia galanga, A. officinarum
• Boesenbergia rotunda
• Capsicum spp.
• Cinnamomum verum
• Citrus hystrix, C. medica
• Curcuma longa
• Kaempferia galanga
• Saccharum officinarum
• Zingiber officinale

Commercium

Res culinariae

Res medicinales

Homines

• Marcus Paulus Venetus
• Valascus de Gama
• Garcias ab Horto
• Carolus Clusius

Libri

• Periplus maris Erythraei
• Descriptio mundi (Il milione)
• Colóquios dos simples e drogas da Índia
• Exoticorum libri decem

Vide etiam
Imperia in Asia austro-orientali Europaea

Historiae generales

• Andrew Dalby, Dangerous Tastes (Londinii: British Museum Press, 2000) pp. 95-96 et alibi
• J. Innes Miller, The Spice Trade of the Roman Empire (Oxonii: Clarendon Press, 1969) p. 3 et alibi

Encyclopaediae et enumerationes

• K. T. Achaya, Indian Food: a historical companion (Dilli: Oxford University Press, 1994) p. 213 et alibi
• "Turmeric" in Andrew Dalby, Food in the Ancient World from A to Z (Londinii, 2003. ISBN 0415232597) p. 337
• "Turmeric" in Alan Davidson; Tom Jaine, ed., The Oxford Companion to Food (2a ed. Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Berthold Laufer, "Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products" (Field Museum of Natural History. Publications, Anthropological series vol. 15, 1919) pp. 185-630 textus pp. 309-323

Nexus externi

• "Turmeric" apud Plant Cultures (Horti Botanici Kewenses)
• "Curcuma longa L." apud Medicinal Plant Images Database (Universitas Baptistarum Hongcongensis)
• "Turmeric" apud The Epicentre
• "Curcuma (Curcuma longa L.)" apud Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages (Theodisce, Anglice)

Haec stipula ad alimentum spectat. Amplifica, si potes!

Eget haec commentatio nexum Wikidata. Quem adde si potes.