Dactylorhiza hatagirea Salap Panch aonle Ambolakpa

Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D.Don) Soó
Family: Orchidaceae
Synonyms: Orchis hatagirea D.Don, Orchis hatagirea var. doniana Soó, Orchis hatagirea var. schlaginweitii Soó, Orchis latifolia var. indica Lindl.
Common name: Early Marsh Orchid
Kumaon: Hatajari
Kashmiri: Salem Panja
Ladakhi: ཨམབོལཀཔཨ Ambolakpa
Urdu: Salap
Nepali: पाँच आँवले Panch aonle
known as Salampanja, Wanglak and Hatajari in Garhwal Himalaya

Uses: Cordyceps sinensis combination with Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D. Don) Soó, honey and cow’s milk as tonic and aphrodisiac. The tuber yields salap and is reputed as expectorant, aphrobisiac and as nervine tonic.

10 Published articles of Dactylorhiza hatagirea

1.       Morphometric analysis of Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D. Don), a critically endangered orchid in cold desert Ladakh region of India.

Warghat, A. R.; Bajpai, P. K.; Hemant Sood; et al. - African Journal of Biotechnology  Volume: 11   Issue: 56   Pages: 11943-11951   Published: 2012

2.       Dactylorhiza hatagirea: a high value medicinal orchid.

Shreekar Pant; Tsewang Rinchen - Journal of Medicinal Plants Research  Volume: 6   Issue: 19   Pages: 3522-3524   DOI: 10.5897/JMPR12.097   Published: 2012

3.       Genetic diversity and population structure of Dactylorhiza hatagirea (Orchidaceae) in cold desert Ladakh region of India.

Warghat, A. R.; Bajpai, P. K.; Murkute, A. A.; et al. - Journal of Medicinal Plants Research  Volume: 6   Issue: 12   Pages: 2388-2395   Published: 2012

4.       Combined effect of PGRs and soil facilitate early flowering of an endangered alpine orchid Dactylorhiza hatagirea at lower elevation

Giri, Dinesh; Tamta, Sushma - CURRENT SCIENCE  Volume: 99   Issue: 1   Pages: 21-23   Published: JUL 10 2010

5.       Evaluation of antioxidant activity and ameliorative effect of Dactylorhiza hatagirea on sexual dysfunction in hyperglycemic male rats

Thakur, M.; Bhargava, S.; Dixit, V. K. - PLANTA MEDICA  Volume: 74   Issue: 9   Pages: 1017-1017   Published: JUL 2008

6.       Aphrodisiac Activity of Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D.Don) Soo in Male Albino Rats

Thakur, Mayank; Dixit, V. K. - EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE  Volume: 4   Supplement: 1   Pages: 29-31   DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nem111   Published: SEP 2007

7.       Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D. Don) Soo - a west Himalayan orchid in peril

Bhatt, A; Joshi, SK; Gairola, S - CURRENT SCIENCE  Volume: 89   Issue: 4   Pages: 610-612   Published: AUG 25 2005

8.       Methods of sustainable harvesting and value addition for economic uplift and biodiversity conservation series 27 - Harvesting of economically important medicinal plant species: Ammi majus, Dactylorhiza hatagirea, Majorana hortensis, Oenothera lamarckiana, Podophyllum hexandrum.

Alka Shiva - MFP News  Volume: 15   Issue: 2   Pages: 13-15   Published: 2005

9.       Studies on nepalese crude drugs. XXVI. Chemical constituents of Panch Aunle, the roots of Dactylorhiza hatagirea D. Don.

Kizu, H; Kaneko, E; Tomimori, T - CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN  Volume: 47   Issue: 11   Pages: 1618-1625   Published: NOV 1999

10.   A NOTE ON DACTYLORHIZA-HATAGIREA (D-DON) SOO - AN IMPORTANT MEDICINAL ORCHID OF SIKKIM

SRIVASTAVA, RC; MAINERA, AK - NATIONAL ACADEMY SCIENCE LETTERS-INDIA  Volume: 17   Issue: 7-8   Pages: 129-130   Published: JUL-AUG 1994