Description

Description:
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.

Action:
to resolve damp, remove stagnancy of food, promote the flow of qi and warm the spleen and stomach and promote digestion.

Indications:
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.

Referential advice:
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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