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CLASS="t2">(Unranked)- Monocots</LI> <LI CLASS="t2">(Unranked)- Commelinids</LI> <LI CLASS="t2">Order- Zingiberales</LI> <LI CLASS="t2">Family- Zingiberaceae</LI> <LI CLASS="t2">Genus- Alpinia</LI> <LI CLASS="t1">Species- A. galanga </LI> </UL> <H2>History</H2> <P>Alpinia galangal belongs to ginger family and have been used in culinary purpose especially in Thai and Indonesian cuisines.<BR> </P> <P>Galangal naturally distributed in china and java.<BR></P> <H2>Plant Description</H2> <P>Galangal is fragrant perennial herb which grows upto the height of 7 m. <BR></P> <P>The leaves of galangal are long and lanceolate; flowers are small green-white in colour. <BR></P> <P>The plant grows with dense rhizomes having thick clumps of stiff stalks upto 2 m in tall and leaves are abundant in number bearing red fruit.<BR></P> <P>The rhizomes are used in cooking which bears sharp, sweet aromatic ginger like flavor. <BR></P> <H2>Cultivation</H2> <P>Alpinia galanga is cultivated particularly in Asia including India, china, Thai, java, Indonesia and Surinam. <BR> </P> <P>The plant requires full or partial shade with well drained and moist soil.<BR></P> <P>It also prefers greenhouse cultivation and thrives best in high humidity.<BR></P> <H2>Parts Used</H2> <P>Rhizomes, fruit<BR> </P> <H2>Constituents </H2> <P>The main constituents present in galangal roots are volatile oil- methyl cinnamate, cincole, camphor and d-pinene. <BR></P> <P>Beta-Sitosterol, Galangin, Emodin and Quercetin are other compounds found in rhizomes.<BR></P> <H2>Uses</H2> <P>Galangal rhizomes are mainly used in oriental cuisines of Thai, Indonesian Vietnamese cuisines. <BR> </P> <P>It is added to various preparations like soups and other cooking dishes as it resembles alike ginger with its sharp and aromatic taste.<BR> </P> <P>In Southeast Asia galangal root and lemon juice is taken as tonic which acts as aphrodisiac and stimulant. <BR> </P> <H2>Names </H2> <UL CLASS="txt"> <LI>BENGALI: Kulinjan. </LI> <LI>BOSNIAN: Aflid~an, Galanga, Galgan, Galgant, Kalgan, Sundska galanga.</LI> <LI>BURMESE: Pa de gaw gyi, Pa da go ji . </LI> <LI>CHINESE: Hong dou kou, Da gao liang jiang.</LI> <LI>CROATIAN: Aflid~an, Galanga, Galgan, Galgant, Kalgan, Sundska galanga.</LI> <LI>CZECH: Galgán obecný, Galgán veliký, Galgán vtaí.</LI> <LI>DANISH: Stor galanga.</LI> <LI>DUTCH: Grote galanga, Galigaan, Lengoewas .</LI> <LI>ENGLISH: Galanga, Galanga major, Galangal, Greater galanga, Languas, Laos root, Siamese ginger, Spice ginger.</LI> <LI>ESTONIAN: Suur kalganirohi.</LI> <LI>FRENCH: Galanga de l'Inde, Grand galanga.</LI> <LI> GERMAN: Galgant, Großer Galgant, Siam-Ingwer, Siamesische Ingwerlilie.</LI> <LI>HINDI: Kulinjan.</LI> <LI>HUNGARIAN: Galangagyökér.</LI> <LI>ITALIAN: Galanga maggiore.</LI> <LI>KHMER: Romdeng.</LI> <LI>LAOTIAN: Kha ta deng.</LI> <LI>MALAY: Lawas (Sumatra), Langkuweh (Sumatra), Lengkuas (Indonesia), Lengkuas benar, Lengkuas biasa, Mengkanang, Puar.</LI> <LI>PERSIAN: Xuz rishe (Djus rishe, Jouz rishe) .</LI> <LI>PORTUGUESE: Gengibre do Laos, Gengibre tailandés.</LI> <LI>RUSSIAN: Al'piniia galanga.</LI> <LI>SERBIAN: Aflid~an, Galanga, Galgan, Galgant, Kalgan, Sundska galanga.</LI> <LI>SLOVAKIAN: Alpínia galangová, Alpínia lie ivá, Galgán lekársky.</LI> <LI>SPANISH: Calanga, Garengal.</LI> <LI>TAMIL: … ° ¤ Í ¤ È Arattai, Perarattai.</LI> <LI>THAI: Kha.</LI> <LI>VIETNAMESE: RiÁng ¥m, RiÁng n¿p.</LI> </UL> <!--ftr--> <DIV ID="footer"><HR><BR> Copyright &copy; 2006-2009, Spices and Medicinal Herbs</DIV> <SCRIPT SRC="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" TYPE="text/javascript"> </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-5342098-1"; urchinTracker(); </SCRIPT> </BODY> </HTML>