GALANGA PLANTS

Galanga Plants

(Kaempferia galanga L)
Galanga medicinal plants including the small gathering that thrives in the mountains where the land is fertile or low-lying areas that are not too much water. The flowers are arranged and a half sitting with a crown of flowers amounted to between 4 to 12 fruit, lip color mauve flowers with white color is more dominant. Number of leaf blade concur no more than 2-3 pages dealing with the composition.
galanga many medicinal plants used as traditional medicine (herbal medicine), phytopharmaca cosmetic industry, food and beverage flavoring, spices, sauces and ingredients of cigarettes on clove cigarette industry. Empirically concur used as an appetite enhancer, a bacterial infection, cough medicine, dysentery, tonic, expectorant, colds, stomachache.
In rainy season, these medicinal plants grow very well. Galanga can be planted in pots or in gardens that enough sunlight, not too wet and in the outdoor.

Galanga flowering plants


Cultivation galanga

          Seed Selection
- Direct Investment
Chopped fresh turmeric along the 4 cm, and then directly planted on land that has been provided without special preparation '
- Formerly planted
Cut along the 4 cm turmeric rhizomes (2-3 buds) and then the wind-wind it 1-2 weeks (until the buds grow), the space where his right wind must be dry and cool temperature is not high.
                Land Preparation
- Land cleared of vegetation and nuisance at a crumbly / at a hoe.
- Created bed while given the manure as much as 10 tons / hectare.
                Cultivation
Planting should be done at the beginning of the rainy season. Planting distance 20 x 15 cm. Make a hole 5cm x 5cm depth of 4cm. Seedlings dipped in anti-biotic solution agrimyoin, sterptomyoin. Then enter in the planting hole.
                Maintenance
Do weeding in week II - IV after planting or dependent state.
Perform closing ground with straw to keep soil moisture.
Do fertilizing at the time the plant has formed a perfect leaf (end of week 4) with 75 kg of Urea, TSP 200 kg and 100 kg of KCl and at 3-month-old plants fertilized with urea as much as 75 kg for all crop land area of one hectare.
Do the lawyers loose soil and weeding the grass at the age of three months at the same plants by fertilizing II.

HARVEST
Galanga medicinal plants began to be harvested 6-8 months of age. Harvesting should be done in a short time. Usually when after harvest enough leaves marked with yellow and eventually fall.
How to Harvest

Unloading all the rhizomes with a spade, fork or other tool.
Cut rhizomes edges, the rest is left is left to grow for the next planting season.

Rhizome production can reach 60-10 tons / hectare.

Variations in production is influenced by soil fertility, species and maintenance during the planting kencur


Tree Galanga



rhizome Galanga


Benefits galanga


Galanga in use to concoct traditional medicines that have been produced by many factories and make your own herbal medicine, in addition to its rhizomes can be made without the drugs or mixed with other herbs mixed with a mixture of other materials. Broadly speaking galanga plant properties are:

1. Expentorasia namely to cure a cough with phlegm and thin the easy way out phlegm. 2. Dinretioca that is intended to facilitate the expenditure of urine (urine). 3. Carminativa which is to assist the process of spending the wind from the stomach due to stomach bloating / in the wind. 4. Stimulant that is to generate or provide stimulation. 5. Protection that is to provide protection for the clothing or books from insects.
Traditional medicine for the cure of galanga

1. Cough
2. Catch a cold
3. Vomiting

4. Tetanus
5. Stomach Inflammation
6. Heartburn
7. Poisoned
8. Bleeding wounds / ulcers and ulcers
9. Shampoo
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