Galangal (Alpinia galanga L. Eilld)

Galangal (Alpinia galanga) is a type of plant tubers that can live in the highlands and lowlands. Generally, people use it as a mix of spices and traditional medicine. The characteristics of the rhizome of the ginger plant and thick, fleshy, cylindrical, about 2-4 cm in diameter, and branching. The outside of the somewhat reddish brown or pale greenish yellow, the scales have white or reddish, shiny hardware, while the inside is white. Meat fibrous rhizomes that old rugged. When dried, the roots turned into a slightly greenish, and the fiber becomes hard and tough. Trunk erect, composed of leaf midrib midrib-united to form pseudo-stem, green somewhat whitish. Young stems out as shoots from the base of the old stems.

Single leaf green, short stemmed arranged alternate. The leaves on the bottom and the top is usually smaller than the one in the middle. Elongated lanceolate leaf shape and tapered edges, base obtuse to the average leaf edge.  Bone pinnate leaves, leaves about 20-60 cm long and 4-15 cm wide. Leaf midrib approximately 15-30 cm, grooved and green. 

Compound interest is bell-shaped, fragrant, greenish white or yellowish white. Inflorescence size of approximately 10-30 cm x 5-7 cm. The number of bunches of flowers at the bottom more than the top, 2.5 cm long lip flowers, white with pink slashes on each side. Petals are still buds, white at the edges, while the base is green. buni fruit such as fruit, round, hard. when the young green-yellow, after the old turn into brownish black, ± 1 cm in diameter. There is also a red fruit. seeds are small, oval, and black.

Its efficacy as stomakik, diaforetik, carminative, aromatic, stimulant, expectorant, and antifungal. Some diseases can be treated are:

Fever

Take 1 red galangal rhizome, a little warm water, 1 tablespoon honey, grated galangal and then filtered, put beseta cup honey, 1 drink a day.

Cholera

Take 1 red galangal rhizome, 1 bulb garlic, salt, 110 ml water, boil all the ingredients and then drink 1 a day 100 ml.

Cleaning the blood

Take the red galangal, created a vegetable or salad meal.

Treating ringworm

Take 4 galangal rhizomes, bulbs of garlic 1, vinegar, 110 ml water, then boiled all the ingredients, in rubbing the injured part.