1. Different ingredients

The basic ingredients of allspice powder: ground pepper, cinnamon, star anise, cloves, and fennel seeds.

"Thirteen fragrances": also called Shiquanxiang, refers to 13 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines with distinctive fragrances, including purple cloves, amomum villosum, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, pepper, aniseed, and fennel. , costus, angelica, sannai, galangal, dried ginger, etc.

2. The main uses are different

Five-spice powder: Five-spice powder has a strong aroma, spicy taste, and a little sweetness. It is mainly used to prepare braised products and barbecue foods, or with Accessories for making pickles and hot pot seasonings, etc.

Thirteen incense: mainly used to make vegetarian dishes and soy products.

3. Efficacy

Five-spice powder: fragrant, pungent and warm in nature, it has the effects of strengthening the spleen and warming the body, anti-inflammatory and diuretic, and is helpful in improving the body's resistance.

Thirteen fragrances: nutmeg, pungent in nature and flavor; bitter; warm. Indications: warming the middle and astringent intestines; promoting qi and digestion. It is used for diarrhea due to deficiency, cold dysentery, abdominal distension and pain, vomiting due to lack of food, and inability to digest food. Purple button, efficacy: warming the middle and promoting qi, strengthening the stomach and digesting food. Among them, those with large and plump shells, thin shells without empty skin, and dark brown or gray-brown seed coats are called purple kumquats.