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Galangal, also known as wind ginger, small galangal, galangal ginger, galangal, etc., is the dried rhizome of ginger plants. It is excavated in late summer and early autumn to remove fibrous roots and residual scales, washed, cut into sections, and sun-dried. It can be used as medicine, and can also be used as a flavoring agent and in cooking.
1. Dispelling cold and relieving pain: It is used for epigastric cold pain that occurs and stops when it occurs. It is often used in combination with Xiangfu, such as Liangfu Pills; Guixin is used together, such as galangal soup; it can also be used with Wulingzhi; if you have abdominal pain due to cold colic, you can use it with fennel.
2. Warming and relieving vomiting: It is used for the symptoms of cold stomach, vomiting of clear water, and cold limbs. It can be decocted with jujube, and it can also be used with Pinellia and ginger.
3. Healing the stomach and pacifying the inversion: It is used for hiccups caused by cold pathogens in the stomach, disorders of qi and upward rushing of the opposite qi. It can be taken together with Pinellia and Clove.
Effects on the digestive system
1. Regulate gastric function
Its water decoction can strongly inhibit gastrointestinal propulsion, but can also promote gastric emptying. The 1:1 mixture of Galangal and Evodia has anti-stress ulcer in rats, inhibits gastric motility, reduces gastric tension, reduces contraction amplitude, and inhibits gastric acid secretion.
2. Regulate bowel function
Its water decoction has the effect of stimulating the intestinal tract, can resist the intestinal activity caused by atropine and adrenaline, and its role is to stimulate the intestinal tract through histamine-like and anti-adrenaline-like effects. Galangal also contains substances that inhibit intestinal contraction caused by histamine, which can significantly inhibit the intestinal tension and contraction amplitude of rabbits, showing a similar effect to atropine.
3. Anti-stomach ulcer
Its water extract can obviously resist water immersion stress ulcer and prevent acute gastric mucosal damage caused by necrotic substances.
4. Promote gastric secretion
The leachate gavage can stimulate the increase of gastric acid excretion. Within 3 hours after perfusion, the total acid excretion was 3 times that of the control group. At the same time, the animals vomited and the gastric mucus increased.
5. Anti-diarrhea
Its water extract has obvious antagonistic effect on diarrhea caused by castor oil and senna.
6. Gallbladder
Its water extract has obvious choleretic effect when administered in duodenum.
Effects on the circulatory system
1. Promote microcirculation
Rapid pain relief for angina pectoris. It can significantly delay the microvascular contraction time caused by epinephrine in mice, and the expansion of blood vessel diameter is significantly earlier than that of Chuanxiong.
2. Anticoagulation, antithrombotic, antipolymerization
Its water extract has anticoagulant effect, can delay the formation of experimental thrombus, and has obvious inhibitory effect on the aggregation of rabbit platelets.
3. To protect the heart muscle
Its water extract has a certain protective effect on platelet aggregation and myocardial injury caused by stress. Galangal can significantly reduce serum and intrahepatic triglyceride levels.
Anti-inflammatory and analgesic
1. Anti-inflammatory
Its water extract can inhibit the swelling of the auricle, the swelling of the foot and the increase of the capillary permeability in mice.
2. Pain relief
Its water extract can inhibit the writhing response and prolong the response to thermal pain stimuli when administered to mice. Its anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects may be related to inhibiting the release of prostatic synthesis.
Other
1. Improve hypoxia tolerance
Its water extract can prolong the survival time of KCN poisoned mice, improve the oxygen utilization ability of mice under hypoxic conditions, and slow down the consumption rate.
2. Anti-tumor
Its ethanol extract has obvious inhibitory effect on mouse S180. The seven compounds contained in piperonol and eugenol have anticancer effects. The contained 1-acetoxy piperonyl acetate and related compounds have killing effect on human tumor cells.
3. Antibacterial and antifungal
Its decoction has different degrees of antibacterial effect on 1 kinds of gram-positive bacteria. Three piperonol derivatives have strong inhibitory effect on fungi.
1. Galangal Porridge
Ingredients: 3 grams of galangal, 10 grams of jujube, and 50 grams of rice.
Method: Wash the rice first, then wash the galangal and jujube. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, add galangal and jujube to boil for a few times, then add rice and cook porridge to eat. Efficacy of medicated diet: This product can warm the middle and disperse cold, and is suitable for stomach-cold pain or cold cholera, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain and other symptoms.
2. Galangal Braised Chicken
Ingredients: 1 rooster, 10 grams each of galangal and grass fruit, 5 grams each of dried tangerine peel and pepper, appropriate amount of green onion, sauce, salt and vinegar.
Method: The chicken is slaughtered to remove the hair and internal organs, wash and cut into pieces and set aside. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, add chicken pieces, galangal, grass fruit, dried tangerine peel, pepper, green onion and other condiments. Simmer until the meat is rotten and the bones fall off. Efficacy of medicated diet: Tonic to dispel cold, regulate qi and relieve pain, suitable for patients with liver cancer pain due to stagnation of qi.
3. Two ginger lamb bone porridge
Material: 100 grams of japonica rice, 100 grams of japonica rice, 500 grams of mutton bone, 500 grams of mutton bone, 6 grams of dried tangerine peel, 6 grams of dried tangerine peel, 6 grams of galangal, 6 grams of ginger, 3 grams of grass fruit, grass fruit (dry and warm, Deficiency and cut malaria) 3 grams
practice:
(1) Wash and hammer the lamb bones into an aluminum pot;
(2) Add ginger, salt, galangal, grass fruit, dried tangerine peel and appropriate amount of water;
(3) Boil with strong fire, then boil with slow fire, decanting the soup, set aside;
(4) Wash the japonica rice and put it into the pot, add 1000 grams of mutton bone soup;
(5) Boil with strong fire, and then simmer with slow fire until the porridge is cooked.
Health benefits: It has the effect of strengthening bones and waist, and is suitable for waist and knee weakness and osteoporosis caused by consumptive exhaustion.
4. Galangal Wine
Take 70 grams of galangal, 50 grams of Huoxiang, and 500 ml of rice wine. First, scorch the galangal with fire to make the coke fragrance, break it, chop the huoxiang, put it in a casserole, add rice wine, boil it to three or four boils, filter to remove the residue and serve. This product has the functions of warming the stomach and dispelling cold, fragrant and turbid, regulating qi and relieving pain. It is suitable for people with stomach cold and vomiting, abdominal cold pain, cholera and dysentery.
5. Galangal tangerine peel porridge
Take 25 grams of galangal (sliced), 5 grams of dried tangerine peel, japonica rice and appropriate amount of water. Put them in a pot and cook the porridge together. 2 times a day, 2 bowls each time. Suitable for those with abdominal pain.
