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Pin Yin: sharen
Common name: cardamom
Botanical family: Zingiberaceae
Botanical name: 1, Amomum villosum Lour.; 2, A. xanthioides Wall.
Primary action: Aromatic-transform Dampness
Secondary actions:
Rectify Qi
Temperature: warm
Taste: acrid, aromatic
Entering Channel: Sp, St, Kd
Actions:
moves Stomach Qi and fortifies Stomach.
Transforms Dampness distressing the Spleen or Stomach, and stops vomiting.
Calms fetus; used for morning sickness or restless fetus Pattern due
to stagnant Qi and Dampness.
Used as an assisting herb to prevent hard-to-digest tonifying herbs from
causing Qi and Dampness stagnation.
(See
Stomach Qi Stagnation
;
Spleen Damp
.)
Dosage:
0.5-2 qian.
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