The cardamom in traditional Chinese medicine is divided into cardamom, cardamom, nutmeg, red cardamom, including the purple cardamom you mentioned they are all qi medicines.
Grass nutmeg is pungent in flavor and warm in nature. It mainly has the effect of drying dampness, warming the middle, breaking qi, and opening up depression. Commonly used in the following situations;
1. Cold and dampness in the middle jiao are not transformed: this product is pungent, warm and aromatic, and its qi is dry and strong, which can transform dampness and turbidity.
2. Temple of the stomach and epigastric cavity: this crystal is pungent to disperse stagnant qi and warm to dissolve cold and dampness.
White nutmeg and nutmeg function is more or less the same, but the white nutmeg is often used to move qi diaphragm, aroma and dry dampness is not as good as the role of nutmeg.
The nutmeg is used to break the flow of qi, warm the center and dry dampness. The nutmeg is used in the lungs and the cardamom is used in the spleen. Nutmeg is the son of galangal, which is hot in nature and is used to warm the lungs and disperse cold, wake up the spleen and dry dampness, but it does not have the effect of aroma to move the qi.
The nutmeg is used for astringent solid colon and stop leakage. Nutmeg is used for drying dampness and breaking down qi to open up depression.
Cao Guo is more pungent, dry and strong than mace, and is used to cut off malaria and eliminate phlegm. Nutmeg is good for warming the middle and regulating Qi and resolving dampness.
The dosage is usually one to three qian.
Taking it for a long time may increase the heat of the spleen and dissipate the vital energy.
White Nutmeg
White Nutmeg is pungent in flavor and warm in nature. It is commonly used to move qi, dissolve dampness, strengthen the stomach, and stop vomiting. It can disperse stagnant qi in the lungs, warm the cold qi in the stomach, and dry the dampness in the spleen. It is suitable for indigestion, vomiting and regurgitation, fullness in the chest and epigastric region, abdominal distension and pain caused by coldness in the spleen and stomach, dampness and depression, or stagnation of qi.
Note: If the prescription only says "kouren", the pharmacy is giving cardamom kernels. The main use of cardamom is aromatic, warming and regulating the stomach medicine. Efficacy between the sand nuts and since the cardamom, aromatic warm and dry nature, smaller than the sand nuts, but slightly stronger than the cardamom. Therefore, in the stomach medicine, sometimes can be purple cardamom instead of sand nuts.
Sand nut
Sand nut is pungent in flavor and warm in nature. It is mainly used to move qi and regulate the middle, wake up the spleen and stomach, and help digestion. And can lead the qi to the kidneys, both warm the kidneys, the role of dampness. It can be used to move qi, disperse cold, dissolve dampness, harmonize the stomach and help digestion in cases of distention and fullness in the epigastrium, accumulation of phlegm and dampness, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and poor digestion caused by stagnation of qi and dampness and coldness in the spleen and stomach.
Cardamom seeds and sand nuts have the effect of promoting the movement of qi and regulating the middle, but cardamom seeds and stomach to stop vomiting is better than sand nuts, sand nuts to warm up the stomach and dry dampness is better than the role of cardamom seeds.
Many doctors use different habits due to regional differences, after all, the human body is not the same.
Then you can read the textbook of Chinese medicine, the shape and picture of which can be found in the relevant atlas of Chinese medicine
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