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GALANGAL , formerly written " galingale," and sometimes " garingal," rhizome galangae (Arab. Kholinjan ;' Ger. Galgantwurzel; Fr. Racine de Galanga), a drug, now obsolete, with an aromatic taste like that of mingled ginger and pepper. Lesser galangal root, radix galangae minoris, the ordinary galangal of commerce, is the dried rhizome of Alpinia officinarum, a plant of the natural order Zingiberaceae, growing in the Chinese island
taste ; the flowers
diameter ; and the rhizomes grow horizontally, and are 4 in. or less in thickness. Galangal seems to have been unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and to have been first introduced into Europe by Arabian physicians. It is mentioned in the writings of Ibn Khurdadbah, an Arabian geographer who flourished in the latter half of the 9th century, and " gallengar " (gallingale or galangal) is one of the ingredients in an Anglo-Saxon receipt for a " wen salve " (see O. Cockayne, Saxon Leechdoms, vol. iii. p.13). In the middle ages, as at present in Livonia
Russia
medicine
chief
consumption
Russia
medicine
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