[单味功用]砂仁又名缩砂仁，为姜科多年生草本植物阳春砂Amomum villosum Lour.、海南砂A. longilig-ulare T. L. Wu 或缩砂A. xanthioides Wall. 的干燥成熟果实。 味辛、性温。 入脾、胃经。 本品辛散温通、芳香理气，醒脾消食、开胃止呕、行气止痛、温脾止泻，治脾胃虛寒，气机阻滞、脘腹胀痛、纳呆食少、食积不消、恶心呕吐、寒湿泻痢等症，又能理气安胎，治妊娠气滞、胎动不安等症。
White cardamom, also known as white cardamomum kernel, is the dried and ripe fruit of the perennial herbaceous plant Amomum cardamomum L. of the ginger family. The taste is spicy, and the sex is warm. into the lungs, spleen, and stomach meridians. This taste is spicy and dry, its qi is refreshing, and it goes up into the lungs to promote hair and regulate qi, and relieve pain; It enters the spleen and stomach to dispel turbidity and dissipate cold, appetize and eliminate food, and treat all cold, dampness, chest tightness and discomfort, abdominal distension and pain, vomiting, hiccups and other symptoms; It also treats damp and warm disease (similar to intestinal typhoid fever) at the beginning, heavy head and chest tightness, fatigue and weakness, loose urine, white and greasy tongue coating and other symptoms.
[Wu use function] sand kernel xin disperses warmth, awakens the spleen and stomach, relieves pain, warms the spleen and stops diarrhea, regulates qi and stabilizes the fetus; White cardamom is warm and dry, warms and dissolves dampness, strengthens the stomach and relieves vomiting, and relieves pain. The sand kernel incense is turbid, and the power is concentrated in the middle and lower two cokes; White cardamom is fragrant and clear, and the power is concentrated in the middle and the upper two cokes. The two medicines are used to promote the upper, middle and lower three coke qi machines, to open the chest and smooth the qi, relieve pain, aromatize turbidity, awaken the spleen and appetize, and eliminate food.
[Indications] 1. The spleen and stomach are cold, the transport is derelict in duty, the dampness is turbid, and the qi is not smooth, resulting in stomach sluggishness, chest tightness, abdominal distension and pain, nausea, hiccups and other symptoms; 2. Symptoms such as stomach cold, indigestion, spitting up and other symptoms in children.
[usual amount] 3-6 grams of sand kernels. 3-10 grams of white cardamom. After pounding.
Sand kernel and white cardamom are both spicy and warm, aromatic and turbidity products, so the two drugs are often necessary to go together. And because it contains volatile oil, it should be studied as a fine powder. General dosage: 1 gram per serving, 2-3 times a day, boiled water. If the decoction is used, it is also advisable to go down, otherwise the treatment effect will be affected. The author tried to treat a cold stomach pain of the elderly, consciously the heart is full of reverse, followed by nausea and vomiting, the pain is unbearable, the water valley does not enter, has planned to treat the soup, warm spleen soup, but the medicine is refused, vomiting after the medicine, so it is changed to 30 grams of sand kernel and cole kernel, a total of 1 gram per serving, 3 times a day. After taking the medicine 1 time, the pain was less than peaceful, and after taking it 3 times in a row, the pain disappeared, and no vomiting was seen.
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