| Pharmaceutical Name: |
Fructus Tsaoko |
| Botanical Name: |
Amomum tsao-kko Crevost et Lemaire |
| Common Name: |
Tsaoko
Amomum Seed |
| Source of Earliest Record: |
Yinshan Zhenyao |
| Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: |
The ripe fruit is gathered in autumn and dried in the sun. The seeds are collected after the carbonized fruit is broken into pieces. |
| Properties and Taste: |
Pungent and warm |
| Meridian: |
Spleen and stomach |
| Functions: |
To dry dampness and warm spleen and stomach
To relieve malaria |
| Indications and Combinations: |
1. Cold-damp blocking and stagnating spleen and stomach manifested as epigastric and abdominal distension and fullness, cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea.
*Use with Magnolia bark (Houpo), Atractylodes rhizome (Cangzhu) and Pinellia tuber (Banxia).
2. Malaria.
*Use with Dichroa root (Changshan) and Bupleurum root (Chaihu). |
| Dosage: |
3-6 g |
