Speaking of cardamom, I believe everyone is familiar with it. Cardamom is actually Amomum villosum, which is slightly spicy and fragrant, and is often used as a seasoning for traditional Chinese food. In the idiom "cardamom", the spice of Amomum villosum is used to describe the beauty of youth. Amomum villosum is not only a Chinese herbal medicine, but also often used as a condiment in daily diet because of its pungent taste. So what is the efficacy and function of Amomum villosum? Come and have a look with me!
Efficacy of Amomum villosum
Sexual taste
Pungent in taste and warm in nature.
Outline: pungent, warm, astringent and nontoxic.
Meridian tropism
Enter the spleen and stomach meridian.
Efficacy indication
Regulating qi and strengthening stomach and spleen.
Treat abdominal pain, abdominal distension, dyspepsia, choking, cold diarrhea and cold dysentery, fetal movement during pregnancy.
"Theory of Medicinal Properties": "Treat air-conditioned abdominal pain, stop gas dysentery and strain, digest Shui Gu, and warm the spleen and stomach."
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Cough due to upper breath, running dolphin, convulsion and epilepsy."
"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Treat qi, cholera, heart and abdominal pain."
Zhang: "Treat spleen and stomach qi stagnation."
The role of Amomum villosum
Amomum villosum, Xin, Wen. Spleen and stomach meridian. Eliminating dampness and activating qi, warming to stop vomiting, warming the middle warmer to stop diarrhea, and preventing miscarriage. It can be used for spleen-soil dampness stagnation and spleen-stomach qi stagnation, with symptoms of abdominal distension, nausea, anorexia, dyspepsia, vomiting and diarrhea fatigue. It is often combined with Dangshen, Atractylodes macrocephala and Poria, such as Xiangsha Liujunzi Decoction.
Modern medicine is used for chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and dyspepsia.
Amomum villosum also has the function of protecting fetus. It is often used with Atractylodes macrocephala and Peristal Peduncle to treat fetal movement and vomiting during pregnancy.
1, regulating gastrointestinal function
The effect of this product on gastrointestinal movement is bidirectional.
On the one hand, Fructus Amomi decoction can obviously increase the rhythmic movement of isolated intestinal smooth muscle in guinea pigs and increase the contraction amplitude and frequency of ileum.
Therefore, taking Amomum villosum in clinic can promote gastric juice secretion, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis and enhance digestive function.
On the other hand, increasing the dose of Amomum villosum can antagonize the excitatory effect of acetylcholine and barium chloride on the intestinal tract, weaken the intestinal tension, reduce the amplitude, and have spasmolytic and analgesic effects.
Amomum villosum can also significantly reduce gastric acid secretion in rats and inhibit stress ulcer in mice.
Its mechanism may be to promote the release of prostaglandin from gastric mucosal cells, thus inhibiting gastric acid secretion.
2. Effect on platelet aggregation function
Rabbits weigh (2.0-2.6kg), with 3-4 rabbits in each group. The administration group was divided into two dosage groups, Amomum villosum 0.6 and 1.2g/kg respectively, while the control group was given the same dosage of solvent orally.
After 15, 30, 60 and 90 minutes, blood was collected from carotid artery, and PRP and PPP were prepared by centrifugation. The platelet aggregation rate (%) was measured by platelet aggregation instrument with ADP as aggregation agent.
The results showed that Amomum villosum could obviously inhibit platelet aggregation.
3, the role of the digestive system
Effect on isolated intestinal smooth muscle.
A small intestine of rats, guinea pigs or rabbits was placed in Taylor bath, and the changes of intestinal activity were recorded with a recorder to observe the effect of liquid medicine on intestinal spontaneous activity and the antagonistic effect of acetylcholine and BaCl2.
4. The effect of arachidonic acid on acute death in mice.
Mice (weight 20-22g), each group 10, two groups were given 0.6 and 1.2g/kg of Amomum villosum respectively, and the control group was given the same volume of solvent.
Arachidonic acid was injected intravenously 1.5 hours after administration, and the mice died within 15 minutes. Results Two mice and 65,438+0 mice died in the 0.6 and 65,438+0.2g/kg dose groups, respectively. Compared with the control group (7 mice died), P
5. The effect of the mixture of collagen and adrenaline on the death of mice.
Each group has 10 mice (weight 20-22g). The two groups were given Amomum villosum 0.6 and 1.2g/kg respectively, while the control group was given the same volume of solvent. 1.5 hours later, the mice were injected with the mixed solution of collagen and epinephrine intravenously, and the death of the mice within 15 minutes was observed.
Results Three mice and two mice died in the high and low dose groups, respectively, compared with the control group (eight mice died), P < 0.05 and P
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