Farewell two songs
Du Mu
More than thirteen years old, cardamom tips in early February.
Spring breeze ten miles of Yangzhou Road, roll up the bead curtain is not as good.
Du Mu's "Two Farewell Songs" mentions "cardamom", and "cardamom tips in early February" are metaphors for flowers, describing women as petite and beautiful, like cardamom flowers that are budding in early February. Nowadays, everyone often uses "cardamom years" to describe thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls, referring to the youth of girls.
Which variety of cardamom did Du Mu mention?
There are four varieties of cardamom that we use today: nutmeg, grass cardamom, white cardamom and red cardamom. The four cardamom medicinal materials are produced in southeast China and Southeast Asia, among which white cardamom and nutmeg are mostly imported. In ancient times, the cardamom recorded in the Materia Medica was basically the fruit of today's galangal, because these two plants belong to the same family, and the efficacy is similar, it is not easy to distinguish, and there is still a habit of using galangal as cardamom in medicine.
Combined with the geographical location, dynasties, and seasons when Du Mu wrote his poems, combined with the flowering period of the four cardamoms and the time when they flowed into China, it is not difficult to deduce that the cardamom in Du Mu's poems refers to the traditional Chinese medicine - grass cardamom.
Grass cardamom
It has the function of strengthening the spleen and dampness, warming and practicing qi, especially "warm and dry", and is used for chest fullness, abdominal distension and cold pain, heating and vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain, and lack of food and drink caused by cold and dampness blocking the spleen and stomach or weak spleen and stomach. There are as many as 18 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine preparations with cardamom, which mainly appear in the preparations for the treatment of stomach diseases such as stomach pain, cold diarrhea, qi stagnation and Zhongjiao, such as ginseng rebuilding pills, stomach strengthening tablets, and whitening pills.
Unilateral or prescription preparations related to grass cardamom can be used in gastroenterology, malignant gas, malaria, gynecology and other fields. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that cardamom also has many pharmacological activities such as protecting gastric mucosa, antitumor, antioxidant, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and anti-sepsis.
Proprietary chinese medicines
Contains grass cardamom
Ginseng Rezo Maru
Ingredient:
Ginseng, wine snake, patchouli, sandalwood, mother cloves, scutellaria, fine spice, vinegar incense, Dilong, Rehmannia rehmannia, Panax notoginseng, frankincense (vinegar), green skin, cardamom, parsnip, Polygonum multiflori, Chuanxiong, turmeric, astragalus, licorice, Coptis chinensis, Poria cocos, red peony, rhubarb, mulberry parasitism, kudzu, ephedra, bone crushing supplement (fried), whole scorpion, leopard bone (preparation), fried zombie silkworm, aconite (preparation), amber, vinegar tortoise shell, powdered sprout, atractylodes (fried with bran), agarwood, gastrodia, cinnamon, angelica, myrrh (vinegar), angelica, grass cardamom, Clematis, black medicine, Qianghuo, orange red, Liushenqu (fried with bran), cinnabar, blood exhaustion, artificial musk, borneol, bezoar, Tianzhu huang, gallant star, buffalo horn concentrated powder.
Efficacy:
It is a double tonic for qi and blood, which has the effects of nourishing qi and nourishing blood, dispelling wind and phlegm, and invigorating blood circulation.
Chief:
It is used for stroke caused by qi deficiency and blood stasis, wind and phlegm obstruction, and the symptoms are crooked mouth and eyes, hemiplegia, numbness of hands and feet, pain, spasm, and slurred speech.
Precautions
1. Patients with liver and kidney insufficiency should use with caution.
2. Athletes should use with caution.
3. Wax skin and plastic spherical shell should be removed before taking.
4. This product should not be swallowed as a whole pill.
Stomach tablets
Ingredient:
Stir-fried hawthorn, Liushenqu (stir-fried), fried malt, burnt betel nut, vinegar chicken inner gold, atractylodes (made), grass cardamom, tangerine peel, ginger, bupleurum, white peony, neem seed, vinegar Yanhusuo, licorice extract.
Efficacy:
It soothes the liver and stomach, eliminates food and stagnation, regulates qi and relieves pain.
Chief:
Liver and stomach disharmony, stomach pain caused by stagnation of eating, fullness, symptoms of stomach distension, less noisy food, belching and bad breath, and irregular stool.
Precautions
1. Avoid raw, cold, greasy, and indigestible foods.
2. Don't get emotional or sulk.
3. It is not suitable for spleen and stomach yin deficiency, mainly manifested as dry mouth, red tongue and dry stool.
4. Pregnant and lactating women should use with caution.
5. This product should not be taken for a long time, it is ineffective after taking the drug for three days, and the drug should be stopped immediately and go to the hospital for treatment.
6. Children and the elderly should take it under the guidance of a physician.
7. It is forbidden to take the drug when the properties of the drug change.
8. Children must be supervised by an adult.
9. Keep this medicine out of the reach of children.
10. If you are taking other medicines, please consult your physician or pharmacist before using this product.
Reviewer: Director Wei Li, Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
Author: Liu Siwei, pharmacist, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University