Fingerroot is known as temu kunci in Indonesian. It is widely used in Javanese cuisine in Indonesia.
Rhizomes can be used as medicine to heal mouth illness such as oral eczema, mouth ulcer and dry mouth. It can cure diuresis, dysentery and abdominal pain. From experiment with alcohol extracts and chloroform. It resists effectively the antifungal that causes dermatitis and mouth disease.
