500g, Cao Dou Kou, SEMEN ALPINIAE KATSUMADAI, Tcm Herbal

"Chinese Pharmacopoeia": grass cardamom

Medicinal name: grass cardamom

Pinyin: Cǎo Dòu Kòu

English name: SEMEN ALPINIAE KATSUMADAI

Alias: Kao Kou, Kao Kuren, Imitation Tree, even

Source This product is dried and nearly mature seeds of the gossypalae Alpinia katsumadai Hayata. Summer and autumn harvest, drying to Jiucheng dry, or slightly hot water, dried to half dry, remove the peel, remove the seed group, dried.

Traits This product is a spherical seed group, diameter 1.5 ~ 2.7cm. Surface grayish brown, yellow and white in the middle of the diaphragm, the seed group is divided into three, each leaf has a majority of seeds, close adhesion, seed group slightly smooth. Seeds are oval polyhedron, length 3 ~ 5mm, diameter of about 3mm, outside the light brown membranous seed coat, seed ridge is a longitudinal groove, one end of a kind of umbilical; hard, the seeds along the ridge longitudinal profile two , Longitudinal view of the direction of oblique heart, seed coat along the ridge inward into the part of the total surface area of ​​about 1/2; endosperm gray. Gas fragrance, spicy, slightly bitter.

Identification:
(1) cross section of this product: false skin sometimes remnants, polygonal parenchyma cells. Seed coat epidermal cells round, thick wall; lower skin for 1 to 3 rows of parenchyma cells, slightly tangential extension; pigment layer for the number of brown cells, during which scattered round oil cells 1 to 2 columns, diameter about 50μm; inner seed coat is a row of thick-walled cells, brown red, thick wall and the side wall, small cell, containing silicon block. The endosperm cells contain starch granules and calcium oxalate crystals and a few small clusters. Endosperm cells.

Powder yellow brown. The surface of the epidermal cells is elongated, with a diameter of about 30μm, which is slightly thicker than the upper and lower layers of the lower epidermis. The epithelial cells are long polygonal or rectangular. Pigment layer cell shrinkage, the boundaries are not clear, with reddish brown matter, easily broken into irregular pigments. Oil cells scattered in the pigment layer cells, was round or oblong, yellowish green oil. In the endocarp thick-walled cells yellow-brown or reddish brown, the surface of polygonal, wall thickness, non-wood, cell cavity containing silicon mass; cross-sectional view of cells 1 row, grid, wall and side wall thick, Partial to the outside, containing silicon block. Endosperm cells are filled with starch granules aggregated starch granules, and some are embedded with fine calcium oxalate crystals. Endosperm cells with vomiting and fat oil droplets.

(2) take this product powder 1g, add methanol 5ml, set the water bath shaking for 5 minutes, filtration, the filtrate as the test solution. Another take mountain ginger and kudzu reference substance, add methanol made of 1ml each containing 2mg of mixed solution, as the reference solution. According to the thin layer chromatography (Appendix Ⅵ B) test, the above two solutions were taken 5μl, respectively, on the same silica gel G plate, benzene - ethyl acetate - methanol (15: 4: 1) as the agent, Start, remove, dry, heated at 100 ℃ to spot color clear, set the UV light (365nm) under the view. In the chromatogram of the test sample, the same light blue fluorescent spot was observed at the corresponding position of the chromatogram of the reference substance, and the same brown spot was observed at the position corresponding to the chromatogram of the cardamom complex. And then sprayed with 5% ferric chloride ethanol solution, sunlight under the view. For the test product chromatography, and cardamom in the corresponding reference to the location of chromatography, was the same brown spots.

To remove impurities. When used to mash.

Sexual spicy, warm.

Meridian: the spleen, stomach by.

Indications: dampness spleen, warm stomach vomiting. For cold and humid internal resistance, abdominal distension full cold pain, belching vomiting, do not think of diet.

Dosage: 3 ~ 6g.

Storage: cool and dry place.

Note (1) for the dampness of the spleen and stomach of the abdominal distention, especially in the cold and dampness is appropriate, often with Sichuan, servant Amomum, dried tangerine peel and other applications. With governance cold dampness stagnation vomiting, often with Pinellia, ginger and other compatibility applications. If the cold and wet beriberi both vomiting can be equipped with Evodia, betel nut equivalent use.

Excerpt: "Chinese Pharmacopoeia"

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