1, what is the grass fruit
Cao Guo is the fruit of cardamom plants in the ginger family, taste pungent, warm, non-toxic. Into the spleen meridian, stomach meridian. It has the effect of drying dampness and removing cold, expelling phlegm and stopping malaria, eliminating food and resolving foodstuffs. Indications: malaria, phlegm and drink, cold pain in the epigastric region, regurgitation, vomiting, diarrhea, food accumulation.
2, alias
Cao Guo Zi, grass fruit kernel ("Transmission of the letter to apply the formula"), the old buckle, grass cardamom ("Pediatric Hygiene General Micro-analysis of the formula").
3. Sexual flavor attributed to the meridian
The sexual flavor is pungent, hot, astringent.
Categorized into the spleen and stomach meridians.
4, pharmacological effects
Anti-inflammatory; stomachic.
5, processing and concocting
1, the net system to remove the shell, rubbing scattered, sieve off the membrane aril.
2, cut the system with mashed.
6, the appearance of the fruit of the grass
The fruit of the grass fruit is ellipsoid, 2 to 4.5 centimeters long, 1 to 2.5 centimeters in diameter. The surface is brown or reddish brown, with 3 obtuse ribs and obvious longitudinal grooves and ribs, the apex has a rounded column base, the base has a fruit stalk or fruit stalk scar. The pericarp is tough, divided into 3 cells, each containing 7 to 24 seeds, mostly grouped into clusters, yellowish brown or reddish brown. Aromatic, pungent, spicy flavor. Large, full, reddish-brown color, strong smell is preferred.
7, the grass fruit Chinese medicine prescription
1, to grass fruit or appropriate combination can also be used for the treatment of a variety of other diseases, such as: the grass fruit with chaihu, cinnamon and other 14 flavors of traditional Chinese medicine composed of chai-gui grass fruit soup, the treatment of influenza line cute bubble 300 cases, the total effective rate of 95.31% (zhejiang chinese medicine journal, 1993, 1: 65). The total effective rate was 95.31% (Zhejiang Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1993, 1:65).
2, to grass 15g, chebula 5g, crabapple 5g, official cinnamon 5g, roasted and finely ground, and then camphor 5g, together with 125g of sesame oil, loaded into the bottle of brine, sealed soaked for three days, rubbed with the treatment of baldness, the treatment of 30 cases, are healed (Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1987, 3: 53).
3, with Zhimu, has the function of regulating cold and heat, and the function of the surface and the inside, good at treating malaria.
4, with Changshan, can strengthen the power of the medicine to stop malaria, eliminating the disadvantages of Changshan gushing and vomiting.
5, with sand nuts, enhance the transformation of dampness and turbidity, warming the spleen and Yang, and stomach qi effect. With Hou Pu, it resolves dampness and turbidity, strengthens the spleen and stomach, moves Qi and harmonizes the stomach.
6, with nutmeg, the two medicines make pair, each taking advantage of their strengths, with strong dampness to wake up the spleen, warming the stomach to disperse cold, moving qi to relieve pain, regulating the suspension of vomiting effect.
8, efficacy and role
Cao Guo has a special rich spicy flavor, can remove the fishy gas, enhance appetite, is a good cooking spices, is known as food flavoring "one of the five spices". Grass berries are used to cook dishes, can remove fishy and dingy, enhance the flavor of dishes, cooking fish and meat, with the grass berries its flavor is better. Stewed beef and mutton, put some grass nuts, even if the mutton fragrant and delicious, but also can drive away the smell of sheep. The modulation of fine brine and cooking meat, dishes and other aroma, such as grass fruits pot beef; Yunnan specialties, such as sealing chicken also use grass fruits to increase the aroma.
1, analgesic and expectorant effect: the a- and β-pinene contained in this product has analgesic and expectorant effect. 1, 8-eucalyptus oleoresin has analgesic, antipyretic, asthma and other effects.
2, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial effects: B-pinene has a strong anti-inflammatory effect, and has an antifungal effect. Geraniol has antibacterial and fungal effects, the lowest inhibitory concentration of 0.39mg/ml for Serratia marcescens and Microcystis aeruginosa.
3, antidepressant: Grasshopper has the role of antidepressant, the stomach after alcohol, available Grasshopper soaked in water, can be very good relief of the symptoms of gastric distress after alcohol.
4, other effects: small doses of geraniol can inhibit the spontaneous activity of rats. Oral geraniol can inhibit gastrointestinal motility in rats, and small oral doses have a mild diuretic effect. Geraniol also has the effect of repelling guinea pig roundworm.
Cao Guo and grass nutmeg
The properties of both pungent, warm, attributed to the spleen and stomach meridian; efficacy of drying dampness and warming the middle. Nutmeg has a qi-moving effect, but the effect of qi-moving of grass fruit is almost none; the function of grass fruit is to cut off malaria, which can be used for malaria with cold and dampness prevalence. The nutmeg has no such effect.
Cao Guo and Sha Ren (砂仁)
二药性味均辛，温，归脾胃二经，同具化湿，行气，温中的功效。 Sand nut has a strong effect on the movement of qi, and grass fruit has a strong effect on warmth and dryness. Therefore, it is its unique characteristic that Ren can move qi and harmonize the middle and achieve the effect of stopping vomiting and tranquilizing the fetus. Cao Guo has the specialty of intercepting malaria, and can be used to treat malaria with cold and dampness prevalence.
9, prescription preparations
1. Grass fruit drink "Chuanxin applicable formula"): grass fruit kernel, licorice, fried ground elm, Citrus aurantium. It is used for treating cold and heat disharmony in the intestines and stomach, dysentery and reddish-white diarrhea, volatile heat and diarrhea, and blood in dirty poisonous stools.
2. Fetus Shun San (New Compilation of Examination and Recipes): this product, Yanhuisuo, talcum, Wu Lingyi. The treatment of fetal qi is not smooth.
3. Treatment of abdominal pain and distension (Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Zhi Fang): two grass nuts, wine decoction.
4. Fruit and appendage soup ("Jisheng Fang"): grass fruit kernel, appendage equal parts. Ginger, jujube, water decoction. Taken before the onset of malaria. Treatment of spleen cold malaria does not heal, vibration cold and less heat, face green and not eat, or loose stools, urine against more.
5. Grass Fruit Drink ("QiXi LiangFang"): Grass Fruit Kernel, Perilla, Ginger, Rhizoma Ligustici, Green Peel, Angelica dahurica, licorice. Treatment of cold and heat, malaria, take this into the food to regulate the spleen.
6. Clearing the Spleen Soup ("Jisheng Fang"): Qingpi, Houpu, Atractylodes macrocephala, Cao Guoren, Chaihu, Poria, Pinellia, Semixia, Scutellaria, Licorice. Treatment of miasmatic malaria, with pulse coming in strings, but with heat and not cold, or with more heat and less cold, diaphragmatic fullness and ability to eat, bitter mouth and dry tongue, heartburn, thirst for water, yellow and red urine, and unfavorable internal organs.
7. Da Yuan Drink ("Plague Formula"): betel nut, thick park, grass nut, Zhi Mu, peony, scutellaria, licorice. It is used for treating the initial onset of the plague, when the cold is first detested, followed by fever, and then fever without detesting the cold, for two or three days after the onset of the plague, with the pulse not floating, not sinking, and counting, and with fever day and night, and worse on the day of asr, and with pain in the head and body.
10, the efficacy of the main
1, dry dampness in addition to cold: "Herbal Justice" said: "grass fruit, pungent, warm and dry, good to remove the cold and dampness of the two warm and dry in the womb, so for the spleen and stomach cold and dampness of the main medicine." Can be used to treat vomiting, diarrhea, cold pain in the epigastrium.
2, dispel phlegm and cut off malaria: "Materia Medica Justice" day "according to the miasma are fog and dew yin and humidity of the evil, the most injurious to the qi of the clear yang, so the miasma more warm and dry aroma, in order to win the yin and haze wet and cloudy in the Chong. Grass fruits of the treatment of miasma malaria, the intention is also the same. Fructus Herba is good at clearing away dampness and phlegm, and invigorating the out-of-body yang." This product can dispel phlegm and intercept malaria, so it can be used to treat malaria and phlegm.
3, digestion and stagnation: this product is used to treat cold and dampness in the accumulation of food stagnation and abdominal fullness effectively. This disease is mostly caused by the cold evil straight into the inside, or living in a damp place; or eating cold drinks unclean things, inside and outside the combination of cold and dampness invasion of the middle Jiao, the elevation of the spleen and stomach dysregulation, hair for this evidence. Common clinical symptoms include abdominal distension, unabated by pressing, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, or pain in the epigastric region, thirst and unsupportive drinking, greasy tongue coating, and slow stringy pulse. This crystal is pungent and disperses dampness, warms and removes cold; dampness and cold go away, the stomach can receive, the spleen can be healthy; then the food accumulation can be eliminated, and the abdominal fullness can be removed.
11, differential application
1, grass fruit and grass nutmeg "Materia Medica Seek Truth" said "grass fruit and grass nutmeg, all books are contained in the same odor, efficacy is not different, serving all can warm and cold. However, the odor of the dagger is not floating and dispersed, and where the top of the fog is not correctly miasmatic malaria, it is effective to serve it straight into the place of disease." Cao Guo and Cao Nutmeg are both pungent and warm in nature, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridians; their effects are drying dampness and warming the middle. However, the difference is that: the nutmeg has the effect of promoting qi, the grass fruit has no effect of promoting qi; the grass fruit functions in intercepting malaria, which can be used in malaria with cold and dampness. The nutmeg has no such effect.
2, the grass fruit and nutmeg two drugs are pungent, warm, to the spleen, stomach two meridians; the same with the dampness, qi, warming the efficacy of the middle. The difference is that: the sand nuts to move the role of strong, compared to the role of the grass fruit to move the role of much weaker. Fructus Cuscutae has a stronger warming and drying effect than Radix et Rhizoma Pinelliae. Because of the strong effect of qi, it can move qi and the effect of stopping vomiting and stabilizing the fetus, which is its unique characteristic. Grass berries dry dampness, dispersing cold, but also has the specialty of malaria interception, can be used to treat malaria of cold and damp bias.
12, Usage and Dosage
Internally: 2.4-4.5 grams, decoction; or into the pill, bulk.
13, appropriate and contraindicated combinations
Harmony of appropriate and contraindicated
1, Zhimu for the adjuvant, Changshan for the adjuvant;
2, contraindication of iron ("Materia Medica Prepara").
3, "Great depletion of yuanyang, the old, weak, weak and weak winners, it is advisable to abstain from it." (Ben Cao Meng Chuan) It is contraindicated in cases of qi deficiency or blood deficiency, without cold, dampness or solid evil.
Application
1, with Zhimu, has the function of regulating cold and heat, and the surface and inside, good for malaria. Evidence of the sun's dampness and vaporization, annoyance, heat and sweat. As the "Compendium of Materia Medica" cloud "grass fruit and mother of pearl with the use of miasma malaria cold and heat, to take its one yin and one yang without prejudice to the harm, cover the grass fruit to treat the Taiyin only cold, mother of pearl to treat the yangming only fire."
2, with Changshan, can play a synergistic effect, strengthen the interception of malaria medicine. In addition, due to the side effect of vomiting, the grass fruit can be taken, and the stomach can be dry and vomiting, the two together, but also have a synergistic effect, can be exempted from the disadvantages of Changshan gushing and vomiting, is conducive to the interception of malaria efficacy of a better play. Clinically, it can be used in the treatment of various kinds of malaria, especially suitable for miasma malaria caused by feeling the miasma of mountain marshes and filthy wetness.
3, with sand nuts, produce synergistic effect, in order to enhance the efficacy, has a strong dampness, warming the spleen yang, and stomach qi effect. In addition to clinical use for cold, dampness, phlegm and turbidity in the middle Jiao, the spleen and stomach qi is not smooth and see the chest and epigastric plagued, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and adverse, 15 in the sticky and so on, especially for the feeling of miasma miasma malaria or malaria caused by the miasma.
4, with thick Park, synergistic help, dampness, strengthen the spleen and stomach, doubling the power to add, lift and lower the appropriate, ascending the spleen, lowering the stomach qi, complement each other, and together for the dampness and transport the spleen, qi and the stomach of the good agent, the most suitable for the dampness of the spleen and yang, the chest and diaphragm plagued, epigastric and abdominal distension and fullness, retching and nausea, do not think of food, tasteless, white thick and greasy moss, or to see the limbs laxity, the head is as heavy as a wrap.
5, with cardamom, each take advantage of their strengths, has a strong dampness to wake up the spleen, warming the stomach and dispersing cold, moving qi to relieve pain, regulate the role of vomiting, for the dampness in the obstruction of the spleen, the spleen trapped in the stomach and the cold pain in the epigastrium, nausea and yelping, sticky and greasy in the mouth, the food does not taste good, the tongue coating of the white greasy and thick of the evidence is appropriate.
14, detoxification flower tea
1, carnation to improve blood circulation
Carnation flower tea flavor fragrant, has to improve blood circulation, exclude toxins in the body, to promote the human body's metabolism, regulate endocrine disorders, work and leisure time to soak a cup of carnation tea, but also to help you stabilize the mind and soul, to abandon the The most important thing is that it is a good way to make sure that you have a good time.
2, honeysuckle tea heat detoxification
Honeysuckle tea taste sweet, cold, in addition to the treatment of viral cute bubble, acute tonsillitis and other conditions, the honeysuckle and rhubarb in accordance with the dosage of three to one together with the tea, add an appropriate amount of honey for flavor, can play a heat detoxification, lubrication and detoxification, to improve the constipation, the efficacy of the thin belly.
3, verbena tea relaxation
Vervain tea to drink in addition to eliminating toxins from the body, but also strengthen the liver metabolism, and can play a relaxation of the nerves, to help digestion, to improve the effectiveness of the abdominal gas, but also very good relief of migraines, but also have the effect of slimming. It should be noted that pregnant women should be prohibited from eating.
4, lily flower tea lung detoxification
Lily flower tea is slightly sweet, fragrant odor, lily nature of this harm, drink lily flower tea can help clear the mind, moisten the lungs to stop coughing, phlegm and vomiting, the first time in addition to the lily flower tea has a certain detoxification cosmetic efficacy.
5, rose tea to improve dry skin
Rose warm, can cool blood, in addition to detoxification, in addition to speeding up the body's metabolism, but also blood, balance the endocrine, ease and clear the heart, replenish the qi and blood, to improve the phenomenon of dry skin, and at the same time, for the treatment of facial pigmentation also play a very good effect, the most suitable for rose tea for endocrine disorders lead to obesity of the female drink.
6, chrysanthemum tea, clear eyes and liver
Chrysanthemum tea is slightly cold, with excellent heat detoxification, clear eyes and liver, relieve headaches, wind dispersal efficacy, the common chrysanthemum tea and chrysanthemum chrysanthemum two types, of which chrysanthemum chrysanthemum flavor is more on the sweet side, the effect of clearing heat and benefit the throat than the chrysanthemum chrysanthemum better; and the chrysanthemum chrysanthemum liver and eyesight role is more obvious, chrysanthemum chrysanthemum plus goji berry tea is the computer family's eye care must have.
7, lavender tea tranquilizer pain
Lavender tea is to improve migraines, stabilize the digestive system, detoxification and skin care ideal tea. Always have a cup of lavender tea on the desk, in addition to relieving stress, calm the mind, help improve the quality of sleep in addition to the wind can also play a sedative, eliminate flatulence, dizziness, diarrhea and other effects.