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GAlingale is a small root of a reddish colour, both with∣in and without, and smelleth somwhat sweet, and groweth in China.
It is called in Latine, Galanga, in English Galingall.
It is hot and dry in the second or third degree.
There are two sorts, the greater, and the lesser, but the les∣ser is most in use.
The best is that which is of a reddish colour, or brownish within and without, heavy and aromaticall, or smelling sweet, especially being bruised, of a hot tast; and full of smal holes.
It will keep good three or four years.
Galingal is profitable in all cold diseases of the stomach, braine and wombe, help's concoction, expels winde and crudities, and strengthens the stomach, being boyled in wine, and taken morning and evening. It strengthneth especially a moist brain, helps the Vertigo, or swimming of the head, and avails against the palpitation or beating of the heart, and is ve∣ry usefull in the gnawing of the stomach, and easeth the Col∣lick, which proceedeth of winde, and in the diseases of the Mother, and stoppings of the Urine, and hath a speedy ope∣ration to cleanse the Uritories, or passages of Urine from slimy flegme and stones gathered therein, or the passages in the neck of the yard, & also to wast and consume any fleshly excrescence in the neck of the bladder or yard. Galingal con∣duceth to Venery, and help conception, and is profitable for them that have cold reins, and excellent for them that have cold and windy affects of the wombe. It helpeth a stink∣ing breath, being boyled in wine and so taken. It is chiefly good for cold and moist diseases.
They are given chiefly in powder and decoction.
Take the powder of Galingal, two scruples; of the juice of Borrage one ounce and a halfe, mixe them together, and give it with a little Sugar in the morning fasting, or any other time.
Take Galingal, Pepper, and Parsley-seed in powder, of each half an ounce, of Honey four or five ounces, mixe them toge∣ther, and adde two ounces also of conserve of Red Roses; Take the quantity of a Nut thereof morning and even∣ing.
Take an ounce of Galingal and bruise it, of White-wine a pint and a halfe, or a quart, boyle it till about halfe a pint be consumed, straine it, and drinke a draught morning and evening.
It helpeth a stinking breath, being often chewed in the mouth, and also a cold, moist braine, being snuffed up into the nose in powder, or chewed in the mouth.
It must not be given in hot diseases, nor to hot and dry bodies.
It is given in powder, from a scruple to a dram, in decocti∣on from a dram to two drams or three.
The chiefest species made thereof is Diagalangal which helps the cold effects of the stomach and liver, and helps concocti∣on, drives away soure belching, expels winde and flatulent humours, and also helps a stinking breath. There are many other species made thereof.