Grass berries and nutmeg itself is two different herbs, whether from the origin, or from the appearance, the two are not the same; secondly, grass berries and nutmeg, the biggest difference is that the efficacy is different, grass berries are mainly used to eliminate food to strengthen the spleen and stomach, when the patient appeared gastric distension, gastric pain, gastric acid, dyspepsia, abdominal pain and pain, etc, when the patient, you can take the grass berries to treat; nutmeg is mainly to inhibit gastric secretion, to promote gastric movement. that promotes intestinal peristalsis.

Nutmeg

Alias cardamom, meat fruit, jade fruit, for the nutmeg plant nutmeg seed kernel of the nutmeg family. Its seed kernel at 45 ℃ low temperature slowly roasted dry, remove the oil (mainly reduce the toxic myristic ether, safrole), when the seed kernel shaking for the sound can be; taste pungent, warm, to the spleen, stomach, large intestine meridian. Functioning to move qi and dampness, warming the middle, astringent intestines to stop diarrhea.

Dosage: decoction, containing volatile oil, it should not be decocted for a long time. Advocate into a fine powder, can avoid the loss of volatile oil caused by decoction. Overdose of nutmeg, can cause serious toxic reactions, should be noted, and nutmeg contains volatile oil, a small amount of gastric secretion and gastrointestinal peristalsis, and there is an appetizer and promote appetite, the efficacy of flatulence and pain; but a large number of people take the inhibitory effect, and there is a more significant anesthetic effect; terpenes in the oil of the volatile oil of the bacterial and mycobacterial components of the inhibition of the role of molds.

Cao Guo

Cao Guo is a spice commonly used in people's daily life, but it is also a Chinese medicine. Cao Guo is the mature fruit of Cao Guo, a perennial herbaceous plant of the ginger family, born in the undergrowth of ditch side forests, distributed in the southern regions of Guangxi and Yunnan. The alias of Cao Guo is Cao Guo Ren, Cao Guo Zi, Cao Guo is neither hot nor cool, it belongs to the warm traditional Chinese medicine, the nature of the flavor is pungent, warm, belonging to the spleen, stomach meridian, non-toxic.

Many people eat hot pot or spicy hot pot can be found inside the small brown fruit, and add it after the food seems to become more delicious, so some people will say "black hearted boss" added "poppy", in fact, it is not! poppy, but the grass fruit, we in the Sichuan and Chongqing area of the food table can often see its figure, not the drug poppy.

Select the method of grass fruit

1, look at the appearance: the grass fruit is oval, 2-4.5cm long, 1-2.5cm in diameter. surface brown or reddish brown, with 3 obtuse ribs and obvious longitudinal grooves and ribs, the apex of the rounded base of the column, the base of the fruit stalk or fruit stalk scar. The pericarp is tough, divided into 3 chambers, each chamber containing 7 to 24 seeds, mostly clustered into groups.

2, smell: the grass fruit smell aromatic, taste pungent, spicy. Selection of grass fruit to large, full, reddish-brown color, strong smell is good.

How to get rid of seeds

Grass fruits are full of treasures, not only the grass fruit kernel can be used as traditional Chinese medicine, the grass fruit skin and grass fruit seeds have their own use. Generally speaking, the grass fruit can not be removed from the seed, but before using the grass fruit as a flavoring spice must be removed first inside the seed clean. How to remove the seeds of grasshopper? In fact, it is very simple to remove the seeds from grasshopper, just crack the grasshopper and throw away the seeds.

Nutritional Value of Grass Fruit

Grass Fruit is mainly composed of trans-S-undecenal in volatile oil. In addition also contains geraniol (Geraniol) and grass fruit ketone (Tsaokone)

Cao Guo's contraindications

Cao Guo is pungent, warm; to the spleen, stomach meridian; aromatic and strong, dry and dispersed; with dry dampness and warmth of the middle, to eliminate the obscenity of the interception of malaria; the main treatment of the chest and diaphragm plagued with cold pain in the epigastrium, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and dysentery, food accumulation does not go away! It is also used in the treatment of cholera, plague, miasma and malaria.