In asia, this herb is used as cooking's ingredients. However, the pharmaceutical world has also used this Kaemferia Galanga as a medicine.

The rhizomes of the plant, which contains essential oils, have been used in Chinese medicine as a decoction or powder for treating indigestion, cold, pectoral and abdominal pains, headache and toothache. Its alcoholic maceration has also been applied as liniment for rheumatism