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Pin Yin: cao guo
Botanical family: Zingiberaceae
Botanical name: Amomum tsao-ko Crevost et Lem.
Primary action: Aromatic-transform Dampness
Secondary actions:
Rectify Qi;
Disperse Food Accumulation
Temperature: warm
Taste: acrid
Entering Channel: Sp, St
Actions:
Expels Cold and dried Dampness; used for Turbid Damp Stagnation of Virulent
Damp Heat Evils.
Harmonizes the ShaoYang level and relieves intermittent heat effusion (fever) and chills;
used in malaria and similar diseases.
Disperses Food Accumulation and distension, especially from excessive meat
consumption, and due to focal distension and nausea associated with Vacuity
Cold of Middle Burner.
(See
Defense Aspect Damp Heat
;
Qi Aspect Damp Stagnation of Three
Burners
;
ShaoYang-stage
;
Food Accumulation
;
Stomach Vacuity Cold
.)
Dosage:
0.5-1.5 qian.
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