Doukou Nian Nian

Chinese Explanation of Doukou Nian Nian

Explanation: Doukou: a perennial herb with yellowish flowers in early summer. It is a metaphor for virginity. It refers to a woman at the age of thirteen or fourteen.　

From: Tang Du Mu's poem "Farewell": "Gracefully curling up at the age of thirteen, cardamom at the beginning of February."　

Example: Once you meet a woman, you will have to play with your talent, either as "a woman of half an age, with a lingering charm" or as "～,lingeringly lovely".

Synonyms: Golden Age, Golden Years, Yellow Flower Youth, Broken Melon Years, Golden Years

Antonyms: Wind and Candle Remaining Years, Sangyu Twilight View, People Old and Yellow.　

Grammar: partial formal; as subject, determiner, object; with positive connotation

Translation: the English translation of doucoumeancourt 1. marriageable age; 2. (said of girls) in their teens

Edited Chinese Medicine and Idioms Allusion

" Cardamom years" in literature is a metaphor for graceful young girls commonly used words, such as Du Mu "Fanchuan Wenji" has "graceful curls more than thirteen, cardamom tips early February" of the language. Cardamom flowers are budding at the beginning of February, so the poet borrowed "cardamom slightly early February" to compare the "graceful curls more than thirteen" young girl, saying that its young and beautiful physique, since then people often use the "cardamom years! The term "cardamom years" refers specifically to thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls who have not yet reached adulthood. In the ancient Chinese medicine, there is also "cardamom", to "cardamom" as the name of the Chinese medicine has four flavors, namely cardamom, cardamom, cardamom and nutmeg. All four medicines are rich in volatile oil, with aromatic gas, warm and act in the middle jiao. Because of their similar names and functions, their clinical applications are more or less the same. They are introduced as follows.

White nutmeg: also known as round cardamom, cardamom nut, first contained in the "Materia Medica Gleanings". For the ginger perennial herbaceous plant cardamom or Javanese cardamom dry mature fruit. It is pungent and warm in nature, and enters the lung, spleen and stomach meridians, and has the function of transforming dampness and warming the middle, moving qi and stopping vomiting, and is especially good at "warming". It is often used in the treatment of dampness and obstruction of the spleen and stomach, dampness and stagnation of qi or spleen and stomach cold chest and epigastric distension, not think of food, regurgitation and vomiting, tongue coated with cloudy and greasy and so on.

Grass nutmeg: It was first published in "Lei Gong Gun Zhi Lun". It is the dried, nearly mature seeds of the perennial herb nutmeg of the ginger family. And cardamom and white nutmeg have the same taste and attributed to the meridian, with the spleen and dry dampness, warming the qi function, especially in the "warm and dry" is good, mainly used for the treatment of cold and damp obstruction of the spleen and stomach or spleen and stomach due to weakness of the chest and epigastric fullness, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain and other symptoms.

Red nutmeg: first published in the "Kai Bao Materia Medica". It is the dried and mature fruit of the ginger plant, with reddish-brown appearance. It is hot and pungent in nature, and has the function of warming the middle and dispersing the cold, waking up the spleen and relieving alcohol, especially "warming the interior". It is often used in the treatment of cold pain in the stomach and abdomen, as well as vomiting caused by drinking too much alcohol.

Nutmeg: also known as jade fruit, meat fruit, etc., for the nutmeg family of tall evergreen tree nutmeg mature seed kernel, first contained in the "Treatise on Medicinal Properties". Its nature is pungent and warm, into the spleen and stomach, large intestine meridian, has the function of warming the middle to move qi, astringent intestines to stop diarrhea, especially "warm and astringent" is good. It is used in the treatment of prolonged diarrhea, five diarrhea, distention and pain in the stomach and abdomen, and vomiting due to cold and stagnation of the spleen and stomach or deficiency of the spleen (kidney) and yang.

Pharmacological studies have shown that cardamom can promote gastric secretion, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, stop abnormal fermentation in the intestines, eliminate gastrointestinal stagnation, aroma stomach, and can stop vomiting, commonly used in clinical practice to help digestion, to promote gastrointestinal power. Compendium of Materia Medica" said "cardamom cure, take its hot and pungent diarrhea, can enter the Taiyin, Yangming, in addition to cold and dry dampness, open the depression and the power of food only. South of the humble, mountainous and smoky, acid into the mouth, the spleen and stomach often more cold and damp stagnation of the disease, so the food must be used, and it is appropriate. However, too much can also help the spleen heat, injury to the lungs and damage to the eyes", so the use of attention should be paid.