Tsaoko (Caoguo)
| Pharmaceutical Name: | Fructus Tsaoko |
| Botanical Name: | Amomum tsao-kko Crevost et Lemaire |
| Common Name: | Tsaoko Amomum Seed |
| Source of Earliest Record: | Yinshan Zhenyao |
| Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: | The ripe fruit is gathered in autumn and dried in the sun. The seeds are collected after the carbonized fruit is broken into pieces. |
| Properties and Taste: | Pungent and warm |
| Meridian: | Spleen and stomach |
| Functions: | To dry dampness and warm spleen and stomach To relieve malaria |
| Indications and Combinations: | 1. Cold-damp blocking and stagnating spleen and stomach manifested as epigastric and abdominal distension and fullness, cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea. *Use with Magnolia bark (Houpo), Atractylodes rhizome (Cangzhu) and Pinellia tuber (Banxia). 2. Malaria. *Use with Dichroa root (Changshan) and Bupleurum root (Chaihu). |
| Dosage: | 3-6 g |