Tsaoko (Caoguo)
Amomum tsao-ko Crevost et Lemaire (Fam. Zingiberaceae)
Pharmaceutical Name: Fructus Amomi Tsaoko
Botanical Name: Amomum
tsao-ko Crevost et Lemaire (Fam.
Zingiberaceae).
Common Name: Tsaoko, Amomum seed, Caoguo amomum fruit.
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 & Taste: Pungent and
warm.
Meridians: Spleen and stomach.
Functions: 1. To dry dampness and warm
spleen and stomach; 2. To relieve malaria
Indications & Combinations:
1. Cold-damp blocking and stagnating spleen
and stomach manifested as epigastric and abdominal distension and fullness,
cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea. Tsaoko (Caoguo) is used with Atractylodes
rhizome (Cangzhu), Magnolia bark (Houpo) and Pinellia tuber (Banxia).
2. For malarial attacks, especially those with syndromes of Pathogenic
Cold Dampness, it is used
with Radix Dichroae (Chang
Shan), Radix Bupleuri (Chai Hu), and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae (Zhi Mu).
Dosage: 3-6 g, decocted in water for an oral dose.
Precautions: None noted.
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