Cardamom

Cardamom

(on medicinal properties)

[synonyms] Hongdou (Wang Haogu), Hongkou (materia medica shugouyuan), liangjiangzi (Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine records).

[source] it is the fruit of Alpinia officinarum. For plant morphology, please refer to "Da Liang Jiang".

[collection] the fruits are picked when they turn red in autumn and dried in the sun or in the shade.

[medicinal material] the dried fruit is ellipsoid, 0.8-1.5 cm in length and 0.7-1 cm in diameter. There is a small pit (stipe mark) on one end, and a residual yellowish perianth on the other end, up to 5 mm in length. The outer skin is reddish brown or jujube red, slightly shrunken, thin in quality, and broken when twisted by hand. It contains 6 seeds, which are oblate, tetrahedral or triangular, polyhedral, dark brown or reddish brown, slightly glossy, with a layer of white film on the outside and grayish white inside. It's fragrant and spicy. It is better to have full granules and pungent smell.

Mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

[processing] remove the impurities, screen the dust, and mash it when used.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① "On medicinal properties": "bitter and pungent in taste. "

② Kaibao materia medica: "it is pungent, warm and non-toxic. "

③ "Compendium": "Xin, re. "

[Guijing] "Gangmu": "start with, foot Taiyin. "

[function indications] dispel cold, dry dampness and eliminate food. It is used to treat abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, choking, nausea, malaria and dysentery.

① According to the theory of medicinal properties, "it can treat abdominal pain caused by cold air, eliminate miasma and fog, go to sleep, warm abdomen, diarrhea and dysentery. "

② "Materia medica collection": "treat intestinal deficiency, diarrhea, angina pectoris, cholera, vomiting, acid water, detoxification. "

③ "The compendium of Medical Sciences": "it is used to treat choking diaphragm and nausea, deficiency malaria and cold distension, dryness and dampness to disperse cold. "

④ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: "stop vomiting and eating, greatly tonify the fire of life gate. "

⑤ Yilin zuanyao: "dispersing cold in warming, invigorating spleen and drying dampness.". "

⑥ "Drug records of Nanning city": "topical treatment of sweat spots. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 0.8-1.5 yuan. External use: grind the end, twitch the nose or adjust the liniment.

[should avoid] it should not be taken when Yin deficiency is hot.

① "On medicinal properties": "eating more makes your tongue thick, and you don't want to eat. "

② "Sheng Sheng Bian" said: "the most active fire injury eyes, to cause bleeding, food should not be used. "

③ "Compendium": "it is forbidden for the spleen and lung to have latent fire. "

[prescription selection] ① for abdominal pain, cold body, vomit, no appetite: Cardamom (peeled), Piper longum, cinnamon, Atractylodes macrocephala, Angelica sinensis (research, slightly fried), ginseng (to Lutou), aconite (cracked, peeled, navel), Cardamom (peeled), dried ginger (cracked, filed), tangerine peel (soaked in soup, white pulp removed, baked), Sichuan pepper (eyes removed and mouth closed, slightly fried and sweat removed). The Wutong is the end of the medicine, and the honey and the tamper three, two hundred pestle, the pill is like the Indus. Regardless of time, take 30 pills with ginger soup. (Sheng Hui Fang Hong Dou Kou WAN)

② Treatment of wind cold toothache: cardamom as the end, with a little twitch around the nose, and mixed teeth saliva, or add musk. (health home formula)

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