Galangal, or Galanga, a member of the ginger family: Zingiberaceae
The rhizomes are used in various Asian cuisines (for example in Thai and Lao tom yum and tom kha gai soups, Vietnamese Huế cuisine (tré) and throughout Indonesian cuisine, for example, in soto).
Galangal, one of several plants in the ginger family with aromatic rhizomes used for food and medicines
Third, possibly due to a mistranslation, Mathers changed one of the ingredients within the recipe for Abramelin oil, specifying galangal instead of the original herb calamus.