Product name : FRUCTUS TSAOKO

Item : 79351490059

Details :
     Cao Guo, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. Alias: Grass Nut, Grass Fruit, Old Kou. It is the dry ripe fruit of Amomum tsaoko Crevost et Lemaire, a plant of the genus Amomum zingiberaceae. The stems are clustered, up to 3 meters high, the whole plant has a spicy aroma, the leaves are oblong or oblong, the apex is acuminate, the base is narrow, the edge is dry and filmy, both sides are smooth and hairless, the ligule is entire, and the apex is blunt and round , spikes are not branched, each inflorescence has up to 30 flowers; the total pedicel is covered with dense scales, the scales are oblong or oblong, the bracts are lanceolate, and the top is acuminate; the bractlets are tubular, and the calyx tube About as long as bracteoles, with blunt tridents at the top; corolla red, lobes oblong, lips oval, capsules dense, red when ripe, seeds polygonal, strong fragrance. It blooms from April to June and bears fruit from September to December. Distributed in China's Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other provinces, cultivated or wild in sparse forests, at an altitude of 1100-1800 meters. It has analgesic, antitussive, expectorant and antibacterial effects. Cure mainly cold-damp internal resistance, abdominal distension and pain, fullness and vomiting, malaria, chills and fever. Belongs to Huashi medicine. Function: Drying dampness and warming the middle, warming the stomach, drying dampness, regulating qi, and eliminating food. Eliminate phlegm and cut off malaria. Cure mainly stomach cold pain, indigestion abdominal distension, cold colic, malaria. This product is pungent, warm and dry, with strong gas and strong taste, and its power of drying dampness and warming the middle is stronger than that of cardamom. This product is fragrant and turbid, warms the spleen and dries dampness, eliminates phlegm and stops malaria.
       Cao Guo is one of the large varieties of Chinese herbal medicines with both medicinal and edible uses. Cao Guo is used as a seasoning spice; the whole plant can extract aromatic oil. The fruit is used as medicine, which has the functions of drying dampness and invigorating the spleen, eliminating phlegm and intercepting malaria. Indications of abdominal fullness, nausea and vomiting, food accumulation malaria embolism. Many Chinese patent medicines are inseparable from its formula, such as Tougusoufeng pills, Yishen pills, Kaiyu Shugan pills, Kuanxiong Lige pills, Jiebai pills, etc.

        Related Discourses:
       1. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Keep the middle and regulate qi, eliminate swelling of the chest and diaphragm, appetizing and eliminating food."
       2. "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Warming the stomach and dispelling cold, drying dampness, treating stomach cold pain, indigestion, and malaria."
       3. "Kunming Folk Commonly Used Herbs": "Dispelling cold and relieving pain, widening the middle and regulating qi. Treating stomach cold pain, vomiting, cold hernia pain."

       Clinical application:
        1. It is mostly used for cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen with excessive cold and dampness, vomiting and diarrhea, and turbid and greasy tongue coating. It is often used together with Evodia rutaecarpa, dried ginger, amomum, pinellia and other medicines.
        2. To treat malaria, it is often used with Changshan, Anemarrhena, and betel nut, such as Caoguoyin ("Salesian New Book").

       Related compatibility:
       1. Tsaoguo with betel nut: Tsaoguo refreshes the spleen and transforms turbidity, proclaims and subdues evil spirits and wards off epidemics; betel nut promotes water and dampness to relieve qi stagnation. The two medicines are used together, and the effect of removing dampness is better. It is suitable for those who have symptoms such as aversion to cold and heat, chest tightness, nausea, headache and irritability caused by plague or malaria.
       2. Caoguo with Changshan: Caoguo is pungent and warm, dispels cold, dries dampness and eliminates phlegm, and intercepts malaria; Changshan bitter cold, clears heat, eliminates phlegm, and intercepts malaria. The combination of the two medicines, bitter and warm, not only removes cold and heat, but also removes dampness and turbidity. It is suitable for patients with recurrent attacks of malaria, internal resistance of cold and dampness, evil and yin injury, and manifests symptoms such as fullness in the chest and flanks, loss of appetite, mental fatigue, and turbid and greasy fur.
       3. Tsaoguo with Anemarrhena: Tsaoguo pungent dissipates temperature, warms the middle and transforms turbidity, transforms turbidity and intercepts malaria; Anemarrhena is sweet and bitter, cold and cool, clears heat and fire, nourishes yin and moistens dryness. The combination of the two medicines, one for cold and one for heat, restricts each other, and works together to remove cold and heat from the outside and inside. It is suitable for internal and external disharmony, hot and cold, alternating cold and heat, and malaria.
       4. Tsaoguo with Hawthorn: Tsaoguo warms the spleen and dries dampness, digests food and dissolves accumulation; hawthorn helps digestion and guides accumulation, strengthens the spleen and stomach. The combined use of the two medicines has the effect of eliminating food stagnation. It is suitable for abdominal distension and pain caused by stagnant diet, belching and regurgitation, etc.
       5. Treatment of deficiency and coldness of the spleen and stomach, nausea and vomiting: 4.5 grams of Cao Guo, 6 grams of cooked aconite and ginger, and 12 grams of jujube meat. Decoction in water. ("National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine")
       6. Treatment of disharmony between cold and heat in the stomach and intestines, red and white diarrhea and hot diarrhea, visceral poison and blood in the stool: equal parts of grass fruit, licorice, Burnet (stir-fried), Citrus aurantii (fleck removed, bran stir-fried). The above is coarse. Take 6 grams per serving, take one and a half cups of water, smash a piece of simmered ginger, fry it for seven minutes, remove the dregs and take it, no matter the time. ("Chuanxin Applicable Prescription" Grass Fruit Drink)
       7. Relieve latent heat, remove polydipsia, relieve heat poison, stop vomiting and dysentery: 120 grams of grass fruit, 90 grams of black plum meat, 75 grams of licorice. 15 grams per serving, one bowl of water, ten slices of ginger, fried to eight minutes. Soak in hot water, warm or cold. ("Women's Prescription" Spleen Shrinking Drink)
       8. Treatment of summer heat and thirst, cholera, abdominal pain, irritability, deep or weak pulse: 90 grams of Cao Guo, 30 grams of aconite and tangerine peel, 15 grams of licorice. Take 30 grams per serving, decoct in water, add ginger and take cold. ("Chishui Xuanzhu" Cold Fragrance Drink)

Barcode: 79351490059
Ingredients: grass fruit
Specifications: 8oz(227g)
Efficacy: Dampness and cold removal, expectorant and malaria elimination, digestion and digestion. Indications: malaria, fullness of phlegm and water, cold pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, food accumulation.