Galangal is mainly used for warming the stomach to stop vomiting, dispersing cold and relieving pain (relieving pain by removing cold from the body), and can be used in the treatment of cold stomach and vomiting, cold pain in the epigastric region (cold pain in the stomach and abdomen) and other conditions.
Gao Liang Jiang can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine, the source of its drug for the ginger family ginger plant Gao Liang Jiang dried rhizome, its flavor is pungent, hot; to the spleen, stomach meridian, with warm stomach to stop vomiting, cold pain effects, can be used for stomach cold vomiting, belching (hiccups) acid swallowing (stomach upward oral pharyngeal swallowing of acid) and the epigastric and abdominal cold pain and other conditions of the treatment.
It should be noted that, because of the hot nature of galangal, it should be prohibited for those who have heat in yin deficiency, and its combination with senna can weaken the laxative effect of senna, so it is not suitable for combined use. The use of Chinese herbs should also be under the guidance of the physician’s diagnosis, not blindly self-medication.