Cao Guo is one of the bulk varieties of Chinese herbs used for both medicinal and food purposes, and the amount of consumption is greater than the amount of medicinal use. Cao Guo has the function of drying dampness and strengthening the spleen, removing phlegm and intercepting malaria. The main treatment of epigastric distension, regurgitation and vomiting, food accumulation malaria and other diseases. A lot of Chinese patent medicines can not be separated from its formula, such as bone penetrating and wind searching pills, beneficial kidney pills, open depression and liver pills, broad chest and diaphragm pills, white pills and so on. With the improvement of people's living standards and health needs, the use and dosage of grass jelly will be more and more. [2]
Summary of drugs
Taste and odor: pungent, warm, non-toxic.
Orientation: into the spleen meridian, stomach meridian.
Functions: drying dampness and removing cold, dispelling phlegm and intercepting malaria, strengthening the spleen and opening the stomach, inducing diuresis and subduing swelling.
Attacks: malaria, phlegm and fluid retention, cold pain in the stomach and abdomen, regurgitation, vomiting, diarrhea, food accumulation.
Scope of application: deficiency fever, cough, edema, dysuria, pediatric fever and fright, head sores and swelling
Use and dosage: for internal use, decoction, 4-7.5 grams; or into pills and bulk. [4]
Dosage and contraindications: Caution should be exercised if the body is deficient and fearing cold. It is contraindicated in those with deficiency of qi or blood and without actual evils of cold and dampness.
1) "Materia Medica Monchuan": great depletion of yang, the old and weak, weak and frail, it is advisable to abstain from it.
② "Materia Medica": all malaria is not due to miasma; heartache stomach pain due to fire and not due to cold; damp-heat stagnation, the summer invasion of stagnation of red and white, anxious and heavy and diarrhea, thirst; damp-heat invasion of the spleen due to bloating or small water is not favorable, salty summer warmth, are not appropriate to use.
3 "Materia Medica": avoid iron.
It is advisable to eat if you have cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, or if your food and drink do not smell good, or if you have vomiting and regurgitation.
Contraindications: Do not consume it if you are weak in qi or blood, so as not to deplete your vital energy; those who are weak in yin and have a high level of fire should not consume it to prevent it from warming and drying up the body and injuring the yin.
Cao Guo and grass nutmeg application and identification
Cao Guo and grass nutmeg: the nature of both pungent, warm, to the spleen and stomach meridian; efficacy of dry dampness and warmth. Nutmeg has the effect of promoting qi, the effect of promoting qi of the grass nut is few; the function of the grass nut is to intercept malaria, can be used to malaria of cold and damp bias. It can be used to stop malaria, which is characterized by the prevalence of cold and dampness, while nutmeg has no such effect. Cao Guo and Sha Ren: Both medicines are pungent, warm, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridians, with the same effect of transforming dampness, moving qi and warming the middle. The effect of sand nuts is strong to move qi, and the effect of grass nuts is strong to warm and dry. 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 the malaria of cold and dampness prevalence. [2]
Chemical composition
The fruit contains volatile oil, the main components of the oil for α-pinene (α-pinene), β-pinene (β-pinenen), 1,8-eucalyptus (1,8-cineole), ρ-cymene, linaloolo, α-terpineol, neroli, linalool, α-terpineol, α-pinene, α-pinene, α-pinene, α-terpineol, α-terpineol. terpineol), nerolidol (nerol), nonanal (nonanal), decanal (capric aldehyde), trans-2-undecenal (trans-2-undecenal, the pungent ingredient in this product), nerolidol (neral), geraniol (geraniol); also containing trace elements (μ), (g/g): zinc (μ), (μ), (μ), (μ), (μ), (μ). g/g): zinc 69.2, copper 7.33, iron 57.2, manganese 283.7, cobalt 0.89.
Seed oil volatile oil 21 kinds of components: mainly 1,8-eucalyptus (1,8-cineole), 2-decenal (2-decenal), geranial (geranial), nerolidol (neral). [5]
Auxiliary medicinal value
1. Grass-fruit-based or appropriate combination can also be used for the treatment of a variety of other diseases, such as: Grass-fruit with Chai Hu,
Grass-fruit (2 sheets)
Cinnamon
and other 14 Chinese medicines, such as Chai Gui Grass-fruit Soup, the treatment of influenza line of colds in 300 cases, with an overall effective rate of 95.31% (Zhejiang Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1993, 1: 65). Journal, 1993, 1:65).
2. 15 grams of strawberry, 5 grams of chebula, 5 grams of crabapple, 5 grams of cinnamon, roasted and finely ground, and then 5 grams of camphor, together with 125 grams of sesame oil, loaded into the bottle of brine, sealed and soaked for three days, and then rubbed externally to cure baldness, treating 30 cases, which were all 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, it can strengthen the strength of the medicine for stopping malaria and eliminate the disadvantage of gushing and vomiting of Changshan.
5. It can enhance the efficacy of resolving dampness and turbidity, warming spleen and Yang, and harmonizing stomach qi. 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 are paired together, each taking advantage of its own strengths, with strong dampness and awakening the spleen, warming the stomach and dispersing cold, moving qi and relieving pain, regulating and stopping vomiting. [2]
Medicinal formula
1. Malaria, cold phlegm condensation in the stomach, not easy to dissolve: Cao Guo, Changshan, Zhimu, Umei, betel nut, licorice, and Andrographis paniculata. Decocted with water. ("CiYu XinShu" grass fruit drink)
2. Treatment of malaria, pulse picking stringy, but hot and not cold, or hot more cold less, diaphragm full of food, bitter mouth and tongue dry, heartburn, thirst for water, urination yellow and red, the internal organs are not favorable: green skin (white), thick Park (ginger fried), Atractylodis Macrocephalae, grass nuts, Chaihu (reed), Poria (peel), half-summertime (soup soak for seven times), Scutellaria, licorice (roasted), each equal parts. Fine file. Each 20 grams, water one and a half, ginger five slices, decoction to seven minutes, remove the dregs, warm, not time. ("Jisheng Fang" clear spleen soup)
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3. Treatment of swelling and cold malaria is not cured, vibration of cold and less heat, face green, not eating, or loose stools, urination against more: grass nuts, epimedium (shelling, remove the skin umbilicus). On equal parts, fine file. Each serving 25 grams, two marigolds of water, seven slices of ginger, a date, fried to seven minutes, remove the dregs of the warm service, do not detain time. ("Jisheng Fang" fruit with soup)
4. Treatment of splenic pain and fullness: two grass nuts. Wine decoction. (Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Zhi Fang)
5. Treatment of gastrointestinal cold and heat disharmony, dysentery and white, and volatile heat diarrhea, dirty poisonous blood: Grass nuts, licorice, ground elm, hedgehog shells (Rang, bran fried). Equally divided into coarse powder. 10 grams per serving, one and a half cups of water, simmering ginger a piece, patted, with the decoction of seven minutes, remove the dregs of the service, do not detain the time. ("Chuanxin applicable formula" grass fruit drink)
6. Treatment of plague at the beginning of the first, first hate the cold and then fever, later but hot and no hate the cold, the first two or three days, the pulse is not floating and not sinking and counting, the fever day and night, the day feeding more and more, the pain in the head and body: betel nut 10 grams, 5 grams of thick Park, 2.5 grams of grass fruit kernel, Zhimu 5 grams, 5 grams of paeoniae vera, 5 grams of scutellariae and 2.5 grams of licorice. Use one bell of water, decoct eight minutes, and take it warm in the afternoon. (The Plague Treatise)[2]
Discussions by Famous Authors
①Compendium:Cao Guo (草果), together with Zhi Mu (知母), is used to treat miasma and malaria with cold and heat, taking the advantage of the fact that there is no partiality of victory between one yin and one yang, because Cao Guo (草果) treats the cold that is the sole victor of the taiyin, and Zhi Mu (知母) treats the fire that is the sole victor of the yangming.
② "Materia Medica seek truth": grass fruit and grass nutmeg, the books all contain the same odor, efficacy is no different, serving all can warm the stomach and cold.
But this odor floating scattered, where the top of the fog is not miasma malaria, served directly into the disease and are effective.
3 "Herbal Justice": grass fruit, pungent, warm, dry and strong, good to remove cold dampness and warm dry in the womb, so for the spleen and stomach cold dampness main medicine.
By the Arashi miasma are fog dew Yin damp evil, the most injurious Qing Yang gas, so the miasma more warm and dry aroma, in order to win the Yin Huo dampness of the hidden evil.
The treatment of miasma malaria of grass and fruits, the intention is also the same.
But all malaria, more wet phlegm obscured for the patient, so the cold and heat exchanges, entanglement, the treatment should be open for the first.
Grass fruit is good at washing away damp phlegm and invigorating the spleen Yang, more Zhimu auxiliary, the amount of discretionary, at any time, loss and gain, the treatment of malaria has a wonderful meaning, it is not necessary to specialize in the Arashi miasma legislation.
But what Shih Tao says is that the real evil is not prevalent, and it is forbidden to do so.
Therapeutic value
The ripe fruit of herbaceous plants of the ginger family. Mainly produced in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places. Autumn fruit ripe when harvested
CaoGuo azuki bean stewed green duck
Harvest, remove impurities, sun-dried or low-temperature drying. Slightly fried, mashed with. The flavor is pungent and warm. Can dry dampness dispersal of cold. Warm and dry nature than the nutmeg. Used for cold deficiency of the spleen and stomach, epigastric distension, vomiting or diarrhea. Often used with nutmeg. Can be used to make brine with.
The aromatic powder of grass fruit is mainly trans-S-undecenal in the volatile oil. In addition to this it also contains Geraniol and Tsaokone.
Supplementary Information on Grass Fruit: Grass Fruit is divided into Grass Fruit Kernel, Fried Grass Fruit Kernel, Ginger Grass Fruit Kernel, Simmered Grass Fruit Kernel according to different methods of concocting, and after concocting, it is stored in a dry container, closed tightly, and placed in a cool and dry place. Cao Guo therapeutic effect: Cao Guo flavor pungent, warm; to the spleen, stomach meridian; Fang Lie dry dispersal of dry dampness and warmth, the efficacy of the interception of malaria
The main treatment of the chest and diaphragm plagued, the epigastric cold pain, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and dysentery, food accumulation does not go away, cholera, the plague, miasma, malaria, but also to solve the poisonous wine, to go to the bad breath.
Cooking
Cao Guo has a special rich spicy flavor, can remove the fishy gas, improve appetite, is a good cooking spices, is known as food flavoring "one of the five spices".
Grass berries used to cook dishes, can remove fishy and nasty, enhance the flavor of the dishes, cooking fish and meat, with the grass berries its flavor is better.
Stewed beef and mutton, put a little grass fruit, even if the mutton is fragrant and delicious, but also to avoid the smell of sheep. Modulation of fine brine and cooking meat, dishes and other aroma, such as grass berries pot beef; Yunnan specialties, such as sealing chicken also use grass berries to increase the aroma.
Contraindications: gas deficiency or blood deficiency, no cold and wet real evil, should avoid eating fruits. [2]