The Chinese medicine name is sharen
Alternative names are sharen, sharen, sharen, sharen, sharen, sharen, sharen, sharen, sharen, sharen, sharen, sharen.
English name AmomiFructus
Source Ginger plant Yangchun sand AmoumumviUosumLour., green shell sand AmomumvillosumLour.var.xanthioidesT.L.WuetSenjen or Hainan sand Dried mature fruits of AmomumlongiligulareT.L.Wu (Yangchun sand on the right).
Plant Form Perennial herb. Rhizome cylindrical, creeping ground, erect stem 80-200 cm high, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, base expanded globose. Leaves lanceolate or linear, margin undulate, with oblique parallel veins; leaf sheaths open, clasping; ligule membranous. Loose spikes with 7-13 flowers per spike; calyx white, apically 3-lobed; corolla white, rounded-spatulate; labellum with yellow, red, purple, and green spots in center; stamens 1, anthers 2-loculed; ovary inferior, 3-loculed, with 10-20 ovules per locule, style apical portion funnelform, slightly above anthers, style distal portion and stigmas embedded in staminal septum. The fruit is green at first, then gradually changing to red to purplish red, dark purple when fully ripe, subglobose or ovoid, 1.5 to 2 centimeters in diameter, with soft spines on the outside. Seeds 15-56, irregularly ovate, oblong or polygonal. Flowering from March to June, fruiting from July to September.
Origin and distribution of wild or cultivated valleys under the forest in shady and moist places, distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.
Harvesting and processing August to September fruit from bright red to purplish-red, seeds from white to brown or black and hard, chewing a strong spicy flavor can be harvested. Generally use the "baking method", that is, the fresh fruit spread on the bamboo sieve, placed on the stove to dry with a fire. The process is divided into three steps: "killing", "compaction" and "refire". When baked until the skin becomes soft (50-60% dry). To take advantage of the situation to spray water 1 time, so that the shell suddenly contracted, after drying the skin tightly without gaps. In addition, you can also use the sun-drying method.
Traits of herbs Yangchun sand, green shell sand is oval or ovoid, with inconspicuous trigonometry, 1.5 to 2 centimeters long, 1 to 1.5 centimeters in diameter. Surface brown, densely spiny protuberances, apical perianth residues, the base often with fruiting pedicels. The pericarp is thin and soft. The seeds are clustered into a mass, with three obtuse ribs, with a white septum, dividing the seed mass into three petals, with 5 to 26 seeds per petal. Seeds are irregular polyhedral, 2-3 mm in diameter; the surface is brownish red or dark brown, with fine wrinkles, covered with light brown membranous aril; the texture is hard, and the endosperm is grayish white. Gas aromatic and strong, taste pungent, slightly bitter. Hainan sand is long oval or ovoid, with obvious trigonometry, 1.5-2 centimeters long, 0.8-1.2 centimeters in diameter. The surface is covered with lamellate, branched soft spines, with fruiting peduncle scars at the base. Pericarp thick and hard. Seed clusters are small, with 3 to 24 seeds per valve; seed diameter 1.5 to 2 mm. The odor is slightly faint.
Taste and odor are warm and pungent. Attributed to the stomach, spleen and kidney meridians.
Effects and Properties Resolves dampness and opens the stomach, warms the spleen and stops diarrhea, regulates qi and settles the fetus. It is a medicine for transforming dampness.
Clinical application dosage of 3 to 6 grams, decoction. It is used to treat water swelling and fullness, incontinence, phlegm and drink accumulation, gas and cough, abdominal pain of worms, roundworms, tapeworms and other diseases. Sand nuts are fried and ground, soaked in wine in a bag, boiled and drunk.
Pharmacological research anti-platelet aggregation; dilate blood vessels; inhibit pepsin activity; inhibit gastric acid secretion; promote intestinal motility; analgesic. Water decoction can promote intestinal motility and can significantly inhibit platelet aggregation. Clinical application of gastric and duodenal ulcers have more ideal efficacy, and found that the sand nuts chewed and swallowed, the treatment of ergotism effect is good.
Chemical composition of the main volatile oil, the main components for the lobster brain, dextrorotatory lobster brain, acetate lobster resin, linalool, nerol, etc., of which the acetate lobster resin can be a measure of the quality of sand nuts. It also contains camphor, 3-sweet myrcene, gibberellin acetate, gibberellin, α-acacacia alkene and other ingredients.
Contraindications for useYin deficiency with heat is contraindicated.
Related remedies
①Subduing food and neutralizing the middle, lowering the qi and stopping heart and abdominal pain: sand nuts are fried and ground, soaked in wine in a bag, boiled and drunk. ("Compendium" shrink sand wine)
② Fistula: sand nuts, Wei Ling Xian 4.5 grams each. Two bells of water, half a bowl of sugar, decoction of a bell. Contained in the mouth slowly sip down, four or five times that is out. ("Ulcer Selection" Three Immortals Soup)
③The treatment of frequent tooth pain: sand nuts are often chewed. ("Direct Directions")
4 treatment of mouth sores: sand nuts fire calcined for the storage of sex for the end, mixed on. ("Ulcer Doctor Daquan")
Contraindications
Yin deficiency with heat should not be taken.
Sea Medicinal Herbs: "Get chebula, turtle shell, cardamom, white catkin and other good."
The Classic of Materia Medica:
"All abdominal pain is fire, diarrhea due to summer heat, fetal movement due to blood heat, sore throat due to inflammation of the fire, children's prolapse due to qi deficiency, fullness of swelling due to dampness and heat, coughing due to the fire to the lungs, but not due to the cold hear injury, all must be identified in detail, it is difficult to generalize the use of."
"Drugs": "the lungs have a volatile fire avoid."
To match the Materia Medica: "Qi deficiency lung fullness prohibited.