Kalyaan Herbal Chithirathai ( Alpinia Galanga) Tablets Pack of 60 Tablets

The botanical name of Chitharathai is Alpinia galanga. It is a rhizome with culinary and medicinal uses. Though it resembles (and is related to) ginger in appearance, it tastes little like ginger. In its raw form, galangal has a soapy, earthy aroma and a pine-like flavor with a faint hint of citrus. It is available as a powder.

HEALTH BENEFITS:

For cough with sputum, a piece of rhizome of this plant is slowly chewed. This is also good for vomiting.
For all sorts of digestive and respiratory ailments in infants and children, this rhizome is baked or heated and given after mixing with honey and breast milk.
1 to 3 gram of powder of this rhizome is administered thrice daily for rheumatic ailments.