“…Hedychium species are extensively cultivated for their various uses in fragrance, paper, ornamental, cosmetics, medicine, and food industries ( Sakhanokho and Rajasekaran, 2019 ). Hedychium plants are rich in essential oil and widely used in traditional medicine for the treatment of flu, gastric diseases, diarrhea, bronchitis, asthma, nausea, snake bites, and leishmaniasis ( Tushar et al., 2010 ; Hartati et al., 2014 ; Sakhanokho and Rajasekaran, 2019 ). The extracts and essential oils of Hedychium plants have been demonstrated to have multiple bioactivities, such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, cytotoxicity, anti-acetylcholinesterase, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, analgesic, hepatoprotective, and insecticidal activities ( Hartati et al., 2014 ; Ray et al., 2018a ; Tavares et al., 2020 ).…”