Caoguo is the fruit of Zingiberaceae plant Caoguo. Caoguo has the functions of drying dampness and removing cold, eliminating phlegm and malaria, and digesting food. Caoguo is mainly used to treat malaria, phlegm and fluid retention, and cold epigastric and abdominal pain. Pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and food retention.

What are the efficacy and functions of Caoguo, as well as the consumption methods and contraindications? Caoguo is the mature fruit of Caoguo, a plant of the Zingiberaceae family. Grass fruit is a perennial herb that grows in the ditch edge forest and is distributed in Guangxi and southern Yunnan. The fruit is harvested when it is mature and turns reddish brown, sun-dried or oven-dried, or blanched in boiling water for 2 to 3 minutes, and then sun-dried or oven-dried. . The early history of Caoguo was recorded in the Ming Dynasty. Yunnan in my country is the main producing area of ??Caoguo, with a history of more than 200 years. Caoguo is one of the bulk varieties of Chinese herbal medicines that are used both as medicine and food. The consumption amount is greater than the medicinal amount.

1. The efficacy and function of grass and fruit

Grass and fruit have the effects of drying dampness and removing cold, eliminating phlegm and cutting malaria, digesting and transforming food, but it has the effect of qi deficiency. Or those with blood loss and no cold and dampness should avoid taking Caoguo. Caoguo can treat malaria. Cold phlegm in the stomach condenses and is difficult to dissolve: Caoguo, Changshan, Anemarrhena, black plum, betel nut, licorice, and pangolin. Decoction in water. ("New Book of Salesian" Cao Guo Drink)

1. Cao Guo treats spleen pain and fullness: two Cao Guo kernels. Decoction with wine and take it. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang")

2. Herbal medicine treats malaria, the pulse is stringy and rapid, but the heat is not cold, or the heat is more than the cold, the diaphragm is full and you can eat, the mouth is bitter and the tongue is dry. Upset, thirsty, yellow and red urine, unfavorable internal organs: Qingpi (remove white), Magnolia officinalis (fried with ginger), Atractylodes, grass nut kernel, Bupleurum (remove), Poria (remove), Pinellia ternata (soup) Soak seven times), scutellaria baicalensis, and licorice (broiled) into equal parts. File finely. Take 20 grams each time, take a cup and a half of water, five slices of ginger, fry until seven minutes, remove the phlegm, and take it warm, at any time. ("Jisheng Prescription" Qingpi Decoction)

3. Herbal medicine treats the plague. At the beginning of the disease, the person will feel aversion to cold first and then develop fever. In the future, he will feel hot but not afraid of cold. Two or three days after the onset of the disease, the pulse will not stop. Count whether it floats or sinks, fever day and night, benefit from daily feeding, head and body pain: 10 grams of betel nut, 5 grams of Magnolia officinalis, 2.5 grams of grass nut, 5 grams of Anemarrhena, 5 grams of peony, 5 grams of skullcap, 2.5 grams of licorice. Fry in water for one hour for eight minutes and take it warm in the afternoon. (Da Yuan Drink in "Treatise on Plague")

4. Caoguozi, licorice, Sanguisorba, and Citrus aurantium are used to treat disharmony between cold and heat in the stomach and intestines, red and white diarrhea, diarrhea due to latent heat, and blood in the stool due to viscera poisoning: Shell (remove the rind and stir-fry the bran). Divide the upper portion into coarse powder. Take 10 grams each time, simmer a piece of ginger with a cup and a half of water, smash it into pieces, fry it for seven minutes, remove the phlegm and take it at any time. ("Applicable Prescriptions for Chuanxin" Caoguo Drink)

5. Caoguo treats malaria. Cold phlegm in the stomach condenses and is difficult to dissolve: Caoguo, Changshan, Anemarrhena, and Black Plum. , betel nut, licorice, pangolin. Decoction in water. ("New Book of Salesian" Cao Guo Drink)

6. Cao Guo Kernel can be used to treat swollen cold and malaria that does not heal. It can relieve coldness and reduce heat. People with green complexion cannot eat, or loose stools and excessive urination: Cao Guo Keren , Aconite (cannon, peeled navel). Divide into equal portions and file finely. Take 25 grams each time, two cups of water, seven slices of ginger, one jujube, fry until seven minutes, remove the phlegm and take it warm, no matter the time. ("Jisheng Prescription" Guofu Decoction)

Caoguo is the fruit of the ginger plant Caoguo. Caoguo has the functions of drying dampness and removing cold, eliminating phlegm and malaria, and digesting food. Caoguo is mainly used for treating food. Malaria, phlegm and fluid retention, cold and painful epigastrium, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and food retention.

2. How to consume Caoguo

1. Caoguo Yinzi

Efficacy: Mainly treats malaria. Alternating cold and heat, polydipsia and headache, or both cold and heat.

Composition: 4 pieces of grass fruit kernels, half a penny of ginseng (reed head removed), 13 pieces of pinellia (for medium samples, soak in boiling soup 7 times), half a penny of licorice (broiled), jujube 3 pieces, 3 pieces of black plum, 1 piece of ginger (3 inches).

Usage and dosage: Take it into the mouth. Add 1 large bowl of water, fry until half of the bowl is filled, drain, and drink warm before eating.

Source: Volume 3 of "Yang Family Prescriptions".

2. Caoguo Powder

Efficacy: It mainly treats the deficiency of internal organs during pregnancy, wind-cold in the body, long-term weakness of the spleen and stomach, deficiency and slippery internal organs, umbilical and abdominal pain, day and night. Infinite.

Ingredients: 2 taels of Magnolia officinalis (remove the rough skin, soak in ginger juice, and stir-fry until yellow), 1 nutmeg (simmered in noodles) and 1 cardamom (simmered).

Source: Volume 15 of "Women's Prescriptions".

Usage: Upper (mouth parent) mouth.

Take 3 qian per serving, 1 cup of water, add 3 slices of ginger, fry until 7 minutes, remove the heat and take it.

Source: (Volume 2 of "Bao Ming Ji").

3. Caoguo Jianzhong Decoction

Efficacy: Mainly used to treat malaria in children.

Composition: half a liang of ginseng, half a liang of grass fruit, half a liang of osmanthus, 1 liang of white peony root, and 3 liang of licorice.

Preparation method: The upper part is powder.

Usage: Decoction in water, take more times a day.

Source: Volume 390 of "Puji Fang".

4. Caoguo Beef Soup

Efficacy: It has the therapeutic effect of dispelling cold, dehumidifying, digesting and relieving pain in patients with liver disease, cold hands, feet and heart, cold stomach, stagnant diet, and upper abdominal distension. People with stomach heat and constipation should not take it.

Ingredients: 6 grams of grass fruit, 200 grams of beef.

Method: Use 6 grams of grass fruit and 200 grams of beef each time, cut into small pieces, add appropriate amount of water, make soup, add salt and seasonings, eat beef and drink soup.

3. Contraindications for using herbs and fruits

People with yin deficiency, low blood, insufficient body fluids, and no cold and dampness should avoid taking herbs and fruits.

1. People with yin deficiency and blood dryness should avoid grass and fruit. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan"

2. Cao Guo should avoid iron. "Compendium of Materia Medica"

3. Malaria is not due to miasma; heartache and epigastric pain are due to fire but not cold; dampness and heat stasis, external invasion of summer qi, resulting in stagnant redness, tenesmus, and diarrhea In case of sudden thirst, dampness and heat invading the spleen, causing fullness, or difficulty in drinking water, salty and summer-heat dampness and heat are not appropriate to use herbs and fruits. "Compendium of Materia Medica"

The above is what I have introduced to you about the efficacy and functions of grass fruits, as well as the consumption methods and contraindications. I hope it can help you.