It is not recommended to plant it in winter, especially if the temperatures are negative.The inflorescences bear flowers having pale yellow petals with purple edges, and arise directly from. However, growth remains slow at the start and then very fast. Its cultivation is very easy and does not require a lot of maintenance. Its tea or infusion has hypotensive, antioxidant, diuretic and anti-ulcerogenic properties. For this, you must take a decoction of the rhizome (the roots) of the atumo plant.Ī decoction of the leaves can be used to relieve fever. This tea is also recommended against stomach ulcers. You would need to drink 3 to 4 glasses a day to end the flu. This tea or infusion is preferably consumed with honey and without the use of sugar. To do this, we pick the flowers and leaves and infuse them with lime, the broken leaf and a red poppy bud. It is also recommended against hangovers and flatulence. Its major asset is its richness in bactericidal essential oil and antioxidants. If one might believe that the shell ginger is a plant dedicated to ornament, the plant is better known for its medicinal properties such as improving the flu-like condition, digestion, and balancing blood pressure. It is a tropical plant but which resists winter temperatures down to -10☌. Moreover, it is often said that " there is not a house in the West Indies that does not have the atumo plant nearby." It is a plant very present in Martinique and in the Lesser Antilles. The flowers are yellow with red streaks inside and bloom protective white with a pinkish tip. It is a tropical rhizome with the scent of cinnamon that grows in clumps of 30 to 60 cm.
It owes its local name Atoumo ("A-tous-maux" that means in english to all ills) to its many virtues in particular to fight all kinds of flu. It is also called the tropical tuberous rhizome. Shell ginger or atumo from its scientific name Alpinia zerumbet is a perennial plant of the Zingiberaceae family native to eastern Asia.
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