Cardamom is a commonly used Chinese medicine. Famous doctors are listed as the top grade of fruit department, and Compendium of Materia Medica is listed as the fragrant grass of grass department, both of which refer to Amomum villosum. There is always the name of cardamom in Kaibao Materia Medica. The former is called cardamom, and the latter is called cardamom. The following is the knowledge of the efficacy and function of cardamom that I brought to you. Welcome to reading.
Cardamom alias: the function and function of original cardamom, purple cardamom, cardamom and cardamom.
Origin: produced in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and other places.
Character identification: the fruit is spherical, obtuse triangle is not obvious, the top has a protruding style base, and the lower end has a stalk or dent. The diameter is about 1.2~ 1.7 cm. There are many smooth or slightly convex lines (vascular bundles) on the surface, and there are dense brown hairs around the base of the style and the stalk marks. The peel is crisp, woody, easy to split longitudinally, and contains 20~30 seeds, which are assembled into balls, commonly known as "nutmeg balls". Coconut ball is divided into three petals, separated by a white diaphragm, each petal contains 7~ 10 seeds, commonly known as "coconut rice" or "coconut kernel", which is an irregular polyhedron with a diameter of 3~4 mm, a dark brown or grayish brown surface, fine ripples and a small round pit at one end. It's hard. The section is white and silty. It is fragrant, irritating and cool, a bit like camphor.
It is best to be big and complete, with thin shells and full seeds.
Main ingredients: volatile oil, mainly D-borneol, D-camphor, etc.
Pharmacological action: strengthening tail to stop vomiting; Dispelling cold and stopping diarrhea has astringent effect.
Processing: cardamom: shell and kernel, mashed. White cardamom: used for mashing with shell.
Taste: pungent and hot.
Meridian tropism: entering the lung, spleen and stomach meridians.
Function: It can warm and replenish air, dispel cold and dampness, stimulate appetite and digestion, and relieve hangover.
Indications: stagnation of cold, dampness and qi, chest tightness, abdominal distension, vomiting and hiccups, and dyspepsia.
Clinical application: 1. For the treatment of stomach cold, pain, vomiting, pale lips and tongue, pale mouth and loss of appetite (equivalent to some types of acute gastritis and ulcers), 6 grams of Amomum villosum, 6 grams of Evodia rutaecarpa, 6 grams of Rhizoma Corydalis, 6 grams of Alpinia officinarum and 6 grams of Rhizoma Cyperi can be used. Decocting with water has the effects of dispelling cold, relieving pain and stopping vomiting.
2, chronic diarrhea (chronic dysentery, chronic colitis) treatment with simmered grass, simmered terminalia, etc. , such as tsaoko soup.
Dosage: 3~6g, preferably pill powder.
Examples of prescription: Caoguo decoction: stewed cardamom 3g, stewed aucklandia 3g, stewed terminalia chebula 2.4g, Polygonum cuspidatum 9g, decocted in water.
Note: 1, cardamom, cardamom triangle, cardamom India. It is a dry and nearly mature capsule of cardamom and its varieties (perennial herbs of Zingiberaceae). Are all cultivated. Location: Sri Lanka, India and other places. The fruit is oval, pointed at both ends, triangular, with a long diameter of 1~ 1.5 cm and a short diameter of about 1 cm. The surface is milky white to yellowish brown. Tough, not easy to crack, spicy, no camphor smell. It used to be imported, but now it is rare.
2. Cardamom is an imported commodity. In the past, in order to pursue profits, Hong Kong businessmen were divided into tribute-increasing, picking, purple-topping and ten-opening. Now directly imported from the original goods, collectively known as cardamom. A person who is big and complete and full of seeds is called Ziwan; Small color is dark, sometimes brown, and the skin is wrinkled. Those with shriveled nucleolus are called small white nutmeg or maple leaf nutmeg.
3, cardamom peeled or shelled, commonly known as cardamom skin. Its dry inflorescence is called buttercup, and a few are spikes of membrane fragments, which are also used as medicine. The effect is the same as nutmeg, but the strength is weak.
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