| English
Name |
| Round
Cardamon Fruit |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Picture |
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| Origin |
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Round
Cardamon Fruit is the dried ripe fruit of Amomum Kravanh
Pirre ex Gagnep. or Amomum compactum Soland ex Maton
(Fam. Zingiberaceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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The
herb is pungent in taste, warm in nature, and distributed
to the Lung, Spleen and Stomach Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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Volatile
Oil |
| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in well closed containers, stored in a cool and dry place, protected
from moth. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Protogenic
Round Cardamon Fruit Subspherical, 1.2-1.8 cm in diameter.
Externally yellowish-white to pale yellowish-brown, with 3
relatively deep longitudinal furrows, apex possessing a prominently
stylopodium, base with a dented scar of fruit stalk, both
ends bearing pale brown pubescences. Texture of pericarp light
and brittle, easily broken longitudinally, 3 loculi, each
containing about 10 seeds; seeds irregularly polyhedral, dorsal
surface slightly raised, 3-4 mm in diameter, externally dark
brown, with wrinkles and remains of aril. Odour, aromatic;
taste, pungent and cool, slightly camphor-like.
Indonesian Round Cardamon Fruit Relatively small, externally
yellowish-white, sometimes slightly purplish brown, testa
relatively thin, seeds thin and blighted. Odour, relatively
weak.
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ACTION |
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To resolve
damp, remove stagnancy of food, promote the flow of qi and warm
the spleen and stomach and promote digestion. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Loss
of appetite due to accumulation of turbid damp in the spleen
and stomach; feeling of suffocation in the chest with anorexia
at the early stage of damp-warm syndromes; nausea, vomiting,
distension and pain in the chest and abdomen caused by cold-damp;
indigestion with retention of food. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.
Resolving dampness and activating the flow of Qi
To treat syndrome due to invasion of middle Jiao by dampness
and stagnation of Qi of the spleen and stomach, marked by
fullness of the chest and epigastrium, it can be used with
Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatea,
Fructus Amomi, etc. to treat damp-warm syndrome at its beginning
stage with stuffiness of the chest, poor appetite, turbid
and sticky tongue coating, it is often used with Semen Coicis,
Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis, etc.
2. Warming the stomach to stop vomiting
It is often used in treating cold syndrome of the spleen and
stomach in nature of deficiency, accompanied with nausea and
vomiting, hiccup and regurgitation of air, etc. To treat regurgitation
of acid and vomiting, it can be decocted with Herba Agastachis,
Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, etc. or with the juice of Rhizoma
Zingeberis Recens in making pills.
Besides, the drug can be used in treating alcoholism; thereforce,
to treat those who have lost their consciousness due to over
drinking, it can be used.
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