Cardamom flowers are very beautiful, its fruit is widely used in life and medicine, cardamom family has grass cardamom, white cardamom, nutmeg, red cardamom, etc., in Tibetan medicine cardamom, nutmeg and cloves, grass fruit, safflower, bamboo yellow is called "six good medicines". Let's talk about nutmeg.
Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine nutmeg is the dried seed kernel of nutmeg, a plant of the nutmeg family. It is mainly produced in Malaysia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, and is also cultivated in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan in mainland China. The fruits are harvested when they are ripe in winter and spring, and after the husks are removed, they are dried. This product has a strong aroma and a spicy taste. It is better to be large, heavy, solid and fragrant. Use raw, or simmer the bran to remove oil, and mash it when you use it.
Traditional Chinese nutmeg has a spicy taste and is warm. Return to the spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridians. It has the effect of warming the qi, astringency and antidiarrheal.
Note: It should not be used by people with damp heat, diarrhea and stomach heat and pain.
Nutmeg is named because its flowers are seedless like cardamom. Kou Zongzao said: "Nutmeg is named after grass cardamom, and only meat is used to remove the shell." Its synonyms include caramom, cardamom, flesh, jade fruit, head meat, etc.
"Materia Medica"
Nutmeg. The smell is pungent and warm, and it is non-toxic. The main temperature is in the middle, eliminating food, stopping diarrhea, treating cold, abdominal distension and pain, cholera, middle evil, ghost qi and cold boil, vomiting, air conditioning, and pediatric milk.
[nuclear said] nutmeg, that is, flesh fruit. Born Hu country, Hu name Jiakule. There is nothing in China, and the people of Lingnan today have all kinds of money. The seedlings in spring, the stems in summer, the flowers are fruitful, they are all like grass cardamom, and the flesh is different. There are wrinkles on the outside and valerian lines on the inside, like betel nuts, purple and white. Practice: Use glutinous rice flour, cooked soup and search, wrap in fact, simmer in bran ash fire, remove powder, do not commit ironware.
[Reference] music is said to be meat, and the "Book of Rites" cloud "the sound of abundant meat" is also. Fang Shiyun: The outside is called meat, and the inside is good. Fu Shiyun: The meat is good, the words are happy, and the music is fat. The meat is called beans. "Poetry" cloud "Yu Dou Yu Deng", Dou recommended to make a big soup. Wu Sheng said. "Sayings" cloud "from the branch to the end", when it is finished and the end of the gathering. The stomach of the recommended climber of the gaifu device, the body of the recipient, and the transfusion are also used. If it is useless, the grain will not be eaten, the heart and abdomen will be distended and painful, cholera will be discharged, and the vomiting milk will be unbearable. This is caused by the accumulation of cold in the cold and the evil ghost spirit. Nutmeg Binggang simmering smell, drum hair in the yellow, Kou Zhi out, the so-called development of the coke, Xuan five grains and the taste of the five animals for the full, full of muscle fat and happy, raise the skin moist and charming, named "nutmeg" in this way.
Take the acceptance as the body, take the loss as the use, and if it is useless, it can be accepted or not, and the elimination of the hole and the like, can be compared with the inference.
Commentary on the Materia Medica
Nutmeg. The temperature, the taste is pungent and non-toxic. In the main temperature, eliminate food, stop diarrhea, treat cold and abdominal distension and pain, cholera, evil spirits, cold boils, vomiting cold air, and children's milk. Bread simmer.
The temperature of nutmeg, the wood gas of spring and the sky, enters the yin and liver meridians of the feet; The taste is spicy and non-toxic, and the taste of the West is dry, and it enters the Yang Ming dry gold stomach meridian and the hand Yang Ming large intestine meridian. The smell rises, and so does the yang. The stomach is also in the state, and the stomach is warm and warm, so it is warm. The stomach temperature is easy to eat, so the main food is consumed. The large intestine is cold and warm, so it stops diarrhea. Over time, the cold accumulates in the intestines, and in winter, the large intestine is distended, and the stomach is also hindered by food and the stomach is distended, and the stomach is full and the heart and stomach are painful. Nutmeg warms the stomach and intestines, and the stomach is full and flattened. Cholera, the stomach has dampness and heat, the stomach is warm and dry, and the cholera stops by itself. The stomach is also the origin of yang energy, and the stomach yang is weakened, and the yin and evil are multiplied by it, and the middle evil is cold, the nutmeg warms the stomach, and the stomach is full of yin and evil, and the middle evil is healed. When the liver is cold and the yin qi rises, the vomiting foam and the cold air comes out, the nutmeg warms the liver, and the liver calms the vomiting and reverses. Children's milk Huo, the stomach is cold, and the bitterness and temperature disperse the cold, so it is also the Lord.
Formula:
Nutmeg is the same as ginseng, bones, Wu Yu, five flavors, and sand kernels to treat cold and diarrhea.
With sand kernels, tangerine peel, ginseng, red yeast rice, hawthorn meat, Huoxiang, malt, cure diarrhea and eliminate food.
With wood incense, jujube meat, balls, cure long-term diarrhea.
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Adverse effects
Myristic ether, the active ingredient in the volatile oil contained in traditional Chinese medicine nutmeg, has certain toxicity, and animal tests can cause liver degeneration; Myristic ether has hallucinogenic effects in normal people. It has a moderate excitatory effect on the human brain. At the time of poisoning, mild patients have hallucinations, or nausea, dizziness; In severe cases, they may be speechless, comatose, dilated pupils, slow breathing, loss of reflexes, and even death.
Modern pharmacology
Traditional Chinese medicine nutmeg mainly contains volatile oils: dehydrodiisoeugenol, cijune, α-pinene, β-pinene, pine-4-enol, γ-terpinene, myristyl ether, etc. The volatile oil contained in nutmeg, a small amount can promote the secretion of gastric juice and gastrointestinal peristalsis, and has the effect of appetizing and promoting appetite, reducing bloating and relieving pain; However, taking a large amount of it has an inhibitory effect and a significant anesthetic effect; The terpenoids in volatile oils have an inhibitory effect on bacteria and molds. Myristic ether has hallucinogenic and anti-inflammatory effects on normal people; Nutmeg and myristic ether can enhance the effect of tryptamine, and in vitro and in vivo tests have a moderate inhibitory effect on monoamine oxidase. Nutmeg has inhibitory effects on MCA and DMBA-induced uterine cancer and skin papilloma in mice.
Time: 2024