Illicium verum is a famous flavoring and also used for medicine. Pericarp, seeds and leaves all contain aromatic oil, which is an important raw material for making cosmetics, sweet wine, beer and food industry.

2. Amomum tsaoko

Amomum tsao-ko is one of the bulk varieties of Chinese herbal medicines for both medicine and food. Amomum tsao-ko is used as seasoning. The whole plant can extract aromatic oil. Fruit used as medicine has the functions of eliminating dampness, strengthening spleen, removing phlegm and stopping malaria.

Indications: epigastric fullness, nausea and vomiting, indigestion and malaria. Many Chinese patent medicines are inseparable from its formula, such as Tougu Soufeng Pill, Yishen Pill, Kaiyu Shugan Pill, Kuanxiong Lige Pill, Jiebai Pill, etc.

3. Cardamom

Amomum cardamom is a herb recorded in China Pharmacopoeia. The herb source is the dried and mature fruit of Amomum cardamom of Zingiberaceae or Amomum javanica. According to different producing areas, it is divided into original cardamom and Indonesian cardamom.

Extended data:

Types of spices:

First, natural spices

1, plant natural spices

Botanical natural perfume is an essential oil, extract, tincture, balsam, balsam resin and purified oil, which is produced from flowers, branches, leaves, grasses, roots, barks, stems, seeds or fruits of aromatic plants by steam distillation, extraction, pressing and absorption, such as rose oil, jasmine extract, vanilla tincture, balsam of Prynne, etc.

2, animal natural spices

Animal natural perfume is the secretion or excrement of animals. There are more than a dozen kinds of natural animal spices, and only four kinds of them can be commercialized and often used, such as musk, Long Xianxiang, civet and castoreum, which are commonly used to make tinctures with ethanol.

Second, artificial spices

Chemical raw materials are called fully synthetic spices, such as coumarin, phenylethanol and linalool synthesized from acetylene and acetone; Pure aroma components separated from essential oil by physical or chemical methods are called isolated spices, such as citral separated from litsea cubeba seed oil and cedarwood brain separated from cedarwood oil. Semi-synthetic perfume is derived from terpene compounds in isolated perfume or essential oil by chemical reaction, such as ionone made from citral, terpineol synthesized from pinene, etc.

Baidu encyclopedia-spices

Baidu encyclopedia-octagonal

Baidu encyclopedia-tsaoko

Baidu encyclopedia-cardamom