500g, Cao Guo, FRUCTUS TSAOKO, Tcm Herbal

"Chinese Pharmacopoeia": grass fruit

Name: Herbs

Pinyin: Cǎo Guǒ

English name: FRUCTUS TSAOKO

Source This product is dried and ripe fruit of the gossypii plant Amomum tsao-ko Crevost et Lemaire. Autumn fruit ripening harvest, remove impurities, dry or low temperature drying.

Traits this product was long oval, with three blunt edges, long 2 ~ 4cm, diameter 1 ~ 2.5cm. Surface gray brown to reddish brown, with longitudinal groove and ridge, the top of the column with a circular protrusion, the base of fruit stems or fruit stalk marks. Fruit cortical tough, easy longitudinal tear. Stripped the skin, the middle of a yellow-brown diaphragm, the seed group is divided into three petals, each leaf is more than 8 to 11 seeds. Seeds are conical polyhedron, about 5mm in diameter; reddish brown surface, the outer white skin of the pseudo-seed, the ridge is a longitudinal groove, the tip of the concave kind of umbilical; hard, endosperm gray. There is a specific aroma, spicy, slightly bitter.

Identification
(1) This product seed cross section: false seed parenchyma cells containing starch granules. The oil cell layer is a row of oil cells, square or rectangular, tangential 42 ~ 162μm, radial 48 ~ 68μm (1) thin cell, , With yellow oil droplets; pigment layer for the number of brown cells, shrinkage. The inner seed coat is a row of thick-walled cells, reddish brown, wall and side wall is very thick, small cell, containing silicon block. The endosperm cells contain starch granules and a few small calcium oxalate clusters. Endosperm cells with enamel powder and starch granules.

(2) take the [content determination] under the volatile oil, add ethanol made per 1ml containing 50μl of the solution, as the test solution. Another eucalyptus oil reference substance, add ethanol made per 1ml containing 20μl solution, as the reference solution. According to the thin layer chromatography (Appendix Ⅵ B) test, learn the two solutions of the 1μl, respectively, points on the same silica gel G plate, n-hexane - ethyl acetate (17: 3) as the agent, , Dry, spray with 5% vanillin sulfuric acid solution, heated at 105 ℃ to spot color clear. For the test product chromatography, chromatography with the reference substance in the corresponding position, was the same blue spots.

Concocted grass nuts: take grass fruit, according to light fry (Appendix Ⅱ D) fried to yellow and slightly drums, shelling, take kernel. When used to mash.

Ginger grass nuts: take the net grass nuts, according to ginger juice (Appendix Ⅱ D) fried dry. When used to mash.

Sexuality: Xin, Wen.

Meridian: the spleen, stomach by.

Indications: dry wet temperature, in addition to sputum cut malaria. For dampness resistance, abdominal distension pain, fullness of vomiting, malaria cold and heat.

Dosage: 3 ~ 6g.

Storage: cool and dry place.

Remarks
(1) for cold and damp stagnation of the spleen and stomach, abdominal distention; pain and vomiting diarrhea embolism, with the grass cardamom, Magnolia, Atractylodes equivalent use. For malaria, the mountain Lan miasma, dirty dirty wet evil caused by malaria malaria is commonly used, with Changshan, Bupleurum, Anemarrhena and other compatibility.

Excerpt: "Chinese Pharmacopoeia"

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