Hi friends of natural medicine around the world, there are many herbal plants scattered around you, but because of the lack of knowledge on how to use these plants, we often take shortcuts, namely by going to the doctor to get medicine with a mixture of chemicals. Now with the presence of natural medicine as a community that supports natural medicine or traditional medicine using herbal ingredients found in nature, I think this is a very good moment to introduce herbal plants that have a million benefits for the body, but are not widely known by the public. the only benefit contained in the galangal plant.
For some people, galangal is already familiar to the ears, especially to Indonesians, because galangal is often used as a cooking spice, mothers often mix it into everyday cooking as a natural flavoring aroma to scent dishes, or put grated galangal into dishes. berkuah to get a refreshing taste, authentic with a taste of spices. Galangal can also be shredded and then used as serundeng and sprinkled seasonings on fried chicken.
Almost all authentic Indonesian dishes use galangal as a marinade, which is very typical, namely curry, rendang (the name of a typical Indonesian dish ), soup, chicken curry, not only for galangal food, it is also commonly used as a seasoning for making certain cakes or warming drinks other than ginger. I think galangal has lived in line with Indonesian society as a symbol of plants with a million benefits.
Well, friends of natural medicine, in this post I want to write about some recipes that are made using galangal as a natural treatment, or can be used as a cure for common diseases, some of which are dangerous diseases. In Indonesia, galangal grows almost everywhere, for some places, especially the highlands, galangal can grow wild anywhere, galangal plants can live without any treatment, because basically galangal is a type of tuber plant. At home I also have some of these galangal plant shrubs, because my mother often uses them as a spice in cooking, no wonder I am also often told to pick them up when she wants to cook dishes, especially dishes that use meat as basic ingredients, she said so that the food smells good and spicy that's natural.
According to a book entitled: Top 100 Indonesian Medicinal Plants that I have ever read, it explains if:
The part of the galangal plant used for treatment is the rhizome, the rhizome in galangal contains essential oil elements with the main components of camphor, cineol and cinnamic metal acid, the essential oil from galangal will appear when the rhizome is mashed or mashed.
| If anyone wants to know information from the book, here I am including a picture, or if you are interested, you can buy this book as a guide, it is very good in my opinion, maybe the problem is just because this book is written in Indonesian, so if you come from outside Indonesia, maybe you can use google translation help. |
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Now, friends of natural medicine, I will write some health prescriptions or medicinal recipes using galangal plants, as well as several other mixtures to produce suitable recipes and have been used by many people in ancient times to become a hereditary recipe that is very effective in treating several diseases that may be difficult cured by using other chemical drugs, here are the recipes:
| 1. Galangal can cure skin diseases such as tinea versicolor and water lice |
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It has been proven that the content contained in galangal can cure several skin diseases, like what happened to me several years ago, I found the skin around the neck that was bristly, then my mother suggested to use galangal by :
- Take a piece of galangal
- Mash until slightly crushed until it releases liquid
- Wrap in a transparent cloth then,
- Apply it on the skin that is bruised
This method is very effective, it is proven that I used this method several times and within one week the tinea versicolor in my neck was healed, even though when I applied it a little pedis. However, this treatment is very natural and the results are also very good, the most important thing is that you do not use chemicals such as ointments.
| 2. Galangal can cure bronchitis |
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Are you one of the sufferers of bronchitis or what is it called a prolonged cough? Or is there a family member or even your closest friend who suffers from this disease? You can recommend the following traditional remedies to cure bronchitis. Because there is a basis this disease is an inflammation that occurs in the main respiratory tract, then natural treatment using galangal is very effective. This is done by:
- Finely mash the galangal rhizome then mix with halia and ginger each only 2 rhizomes.
- Take a little cinnamon I frown
- 1 handful of two horse whips
- Half a leaf
The way to use it is to mix it into one collision of galangal rhizomes, ginger and ginger, then boil it in three glasses of water until it boils, finally drink the boiled water 2 times a day, morning and evening if possible, or before breakfast and after dinner.
| 3. Galangal treats rheumatism |
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If you experience joint problems, or what is often known as rheumatism, especially if it is acute. I often saw my grandmother in the village grating galangal, and at that time I asked her why this was done, grandmother's answer made me curious because she said that grated galangal mixed with native chicken eggs can treat rheumatism, when I asked for whom This concoction was made, the grandmother answered if this was a traditional herb taught by her parents in the past, and proven to be effective in treating rheumatic pain, out of curiosity I finally asked my grandmother for the full recipe and I wrote it here:
- Take 2 or more galangal rhizome (according to taste) then grated
- 1 chicken egg
The way to make it is by squeezing water or grated galangal juice, then mix it with free-range chicken egg yolk, then drink it once a day. By drinking this concoction regularly, the rheumatism you are suffering from will gradually improve, if you are still curious, you can try it, this is a recipe passed down from generation to generation from my grandmother.
| 4. Generating sexual arousal |
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For those of you husband and wife or lovers who expect a harmonious and long-lasting relationship, maybe by drinking traditional ingredients with galangal ingredients is an alternative, apart from being free from chemicals and safe for long-term health, and avoiding the use of chemicals or strong drugs that are widely circulated in the public with side effects that are very lethal for a long period of use. The ingredients needed to make this traditional herb are only to use:
- 2 or 3 galangal rhizomes
- 3 rhizomes of ginger
- 2 limes
- 1 teaspoon of pepper
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 spoon of yeast
- Half a glass of cooking water
The way to make it is by grated galangal and ginger together, then split the lime then take the water, then mix the galangal juice, ginger and lime with pepper, salt and yeast, then mix it in half a glass of warm cooking water, stir until evenly distributed. then drink the potion.
There are so many benefits of galangal, maybe more than I know, more than I write this, I hope you are not fixated on my post, because the benefits of galangal for traditional medicine are many, if you like reading you can read many books that explain about the benefits of galangal as a traditional herb. On this occasion I only wrote until here my friend, I only know this much, because there are some that my grandmother taught me to be hereditary recipes, hopefully it will be useful and also provide a little knowledge for those of you who don't know the benefits of the galangal plant. Thank you for reading, thank you to the community for providing space for the writing of this recipe, I am very happy to be able to share. Greetings to this great community. 😍
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