The difference between nutmeg and cardamom
1, the shape is different: the shape of the cardamom is like a ball, the surface color is usually white, there are some surface is a light yellow, so it is called cardamom. The shape of the nutmeg is generally oval or slightly flat, not nutmeg round and full, the surface is not white, but gray-brown, so we can distinguish between the two through the appearance of the difference.
2, different uses: nutmeg and cardamom are very good food choices, can be used for cooking Oh, but the role in cooking is different. Nutmeg smell bitter, taste pungent and slightly bitter, can be used for cooking to odor, increase the pungent aroma, favorite spicy hot pot base generally have nutmeg. And the nutmeg has the effect of removing the stinky flavor similar to mutton, or other strange flavors, is to help the user to go fishy too.
3, the role of different: nutmeg can be used for wet obstruction of the spleen and stomach caused by abdominal distension and fullness and other phenomena. The nutmeg is mainly for cold and cold lead to cold gas condensation caused by loss of appetite, and regurgitation and other symptoms.
Cao Kou beans and cardamom are the same
Their appearance is not the same, both belong to the spices, attributes are the fruit seed kernel class, their medicinal value is not the same. Each spice has its own unique flavor, some ingredients added a certain spice to make the food to achieve a very tingyi effect, grass and nutmeg are generally sold in supermarkets
Medicinal value of nutmeg
Nutmeg is a flavor of the aroma of the wet medicine, medicinal properties characterized by the pungent, warm, to the spleen, the stomach through. The effect of nutmeg can dry dampness and move qi, warm and stop vomiting. Clinical applications are as follows:
1. Nutmeg is often used to treat cold and dampness. Nutmeg is aromatic, warm and dry, good at drying dampness and resolving turbidity, warming the middle and dispersing cold, moving qi and eliminating flatulence, so patients with cold and dampness in the spleen and stomach, partial qi is very suitable for it, often with dry ginger, thick park, Chen Pi and other warming medicines to move qi, such as thick park and warming the middle soup;
2, Nutmeg is often used to treat cold and dampness and vomiting evidence. This product can warm the middle dispersal of cold, descending reverse vomiting, and cinnamon, galangal, Chen Pi and other warm vomiting medicine used together;
3, nutmeg can be used to treat abdominal pain and diarrhea. This product warms the spleen and dries dampness, can remove the cold and dampness of the middle jiao to achieve the purpose of stopping diarrhea, so it is often used to treat the cold and dampness, clear and turbid congestion caused by abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Grass nutmeg is warm and dry, clinical Yin deficiency and blood dry patients should be cautious.
Dosage of nutmeg
3 to 6 g. Nutmeg is a traditional Chinese medicine. For the ginger plant nutmeg dry nearly mature seeds. Harvested in summer and fall, sun-dried to 90% dry, or slightly scalded with water, sun-dried to half dry, remove the pericarp, take out the seed clusters, sun-dried.