“…It is distributed mainly in dry forests, thickets and on open slopes at an altitude of up to 1630 metres above sea level, in India, China, Taiwan, and South East Asia (Hartley, 1966;Liu et al, 2014;Dai, et al, 2012). For a long time, Z. avicenna was used traditionally for various purposes in some regions, such as an important folk medicine for rheumatism, abdominal pain, jaundice, chronic hepatitis and the common cold in China (Cho et al, 2012, , Liu et al, 2014, as spices and flavouring agents in South East Asia (Seidemann, 2005;Cho et al, 2012), and as a digestive tonic in Vietnam (Chi, 1997).…”