Nutmeg
Belongs to the dried seed kernel of nutmeg in the Myristicaceae family. The medicine is warm and pungent in flavor, with the ability to warm the middle and astringent intestines; move Qi and eliminate food. It is used for deficiency diarrhea; cold dysentery; distension and pain in the epigastric region; vomiting with little food; and non-dissipation of food.
White nutmeg
is a nickname for cardamom, belonging to the ginger plant cardamom dry mature fruit. It is warm in nature and pungent in flavor, and has the efficacy of resolving dampness and moving qi, warming and stopping vomiting, warming the stomach and eliminating food. It is often used in the treatment of Qi stagnation, food stagnation, chest tightness, abdominal distension, yelping, choking, vomiting, regurgitation, malaria and so on.