The efficacy and effects of cardamom and contraindications

April 4, 2023

Cardamom is the dried ripe fruit of the herb Cardamom or Javanese Cardamom of the Edelweiss family. It is also known as cardamom. Cardamom is warm in nature, pungent in taste, and is mainly attributed to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the function of resolving dampness and moving Qi, warming and stopping vomiting, appetizing and eliminating food. So what are the specific effects of cardamom?

Relieving dampness and promoting the flow of Qi

Cardamom can not only resolve dampness and move Qi, but also appease the appetite and eliminate food. It can be used to treat the symptoms of spleen and stomach stagnation and dampness obstructing the middle jiao, such as fullness in the stomach and abdomen, lack of appetite, chest and abdominal distension, and indigestion.

Warming and stopping vomiting

Cardamom is pungent and can enter the lung meridian to promote and resolve dampness, so it is often used to treat discomfort such as dampness and warmth at the beginning, chest tightness and lack of hunger.

Appeasing the appetite and eliminating food

It is especially suitable for the treatment of vomiting caused by dampness and stagnation of stomach cold. It can also be taken with Sharen, licorice and other drugs, and can be used to treat children with stomach cold and vomiting without food.

Strengthening the stomach and stopping vomiting

Cardamom contains volatile oil, which can promote the secretion of gastric juice, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, stop abnormal fermentation in the intestine, dispel the accumulated gas in the stomach and intestines, so it has good aromatic stomachic effect and can stop vomiting. The volatile oil can enhance the effect of small doses of streptomycin in experimental binding to guinea pigs.

The toxic side effects of cardamom

Cardamom is a relatively safe drug, no adverse clinical reactions and poisoning have been reported, and no animal toxicity experiments have been reported.

Contraindications to the use of cardamom

Cardamom is pungent and warm, yin deficiency and internal heat, or stomach fire, dry mouth and thirst, dry stools are contraindicated; dry syndrome and diabetic patients should not eat.

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