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🌿 Herb

Villous Amomum Fruit

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Clinical Trials
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Meta-Analyses
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PubMed References
📋 Sample Trials
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📊 Sample Meta-Analyses
CRD42023403863
Pregnancy risks of 30 pregnancy-related Chinese herbs: A systematic review and risk evaluation
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🌿 All Herb data fields for Villous Amomum Fruit
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Sha Ren
中文名 (Chinese)
砂仁
Latin Name
Fructus Amomi; Amomi Fructus
English Name
Villous Amomum Fruit
Alias Names
缩沙蜜; 缩砂仁; 缩砂密
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Pungent; Warm
Meridians (归经)
Spleen; Stomach; Kidney
Part Used
Ripe fruit or seed
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Dampness Removing Drugs
功效分类 (CN)
化湿药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To eliminate damp and improve appetite, to warm the spleen and check diarrhea, and to prevent abortion.
Indication (主治)
Abdominal pain glomus distention, food stagnation in torpid stomach, dysphagia-occlusion, vomiting, cold dysentery, stirring fetus in pregnancy.
Clinical Manifestations
1. its decoction lower thab 1% concentration stimulates and that higher than 1% or the saturated solution of its volatile oil inhibits the intestines of guinea-pigs in vitro.2. its volatile oil acts as stomachic tonic and exaggerates the diacharge of flat
🔗 External References
SymMap
TCMID
3244
TCMSP
355
TCM-ID
1803
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name
Villous Amomum Fruit
chinese name
砂仁
pinyin name
Sha Ren
latin name
Fructus Amomi; Amomi Fructus
english name
Villous Amomum Fruit
properties english
Pungent; Warm
meridians english
Spleen; Stomach; Kidney
use part
Ripe fruit or seed
symmap herb id
355
tcmid id
3244
tcmsp id
355
herb id str
HERB004853
function text
To eliminate damp and improve appetite, to warm the spleen and check diarrhea, and to prevent abortion.
indication
Abdominal pain glomus distention, food stagnation in torpid stomach, dysphagia-occlusion, vomiting, cold dysentery, stirring fetus in pregnancy.
clinical manifestations
1. its decoction lower thab 1% concentration stimulates and that higher than 1% or the saturated solution of its volatile oil inhibits the intestines of guinea-pigs in vitro.2. its volatile oil acts as stomachic tonic and exaggerates the diacharge of flat
therapeutic en class
Dampness Removing Drugs
therapeutic cn class
化湿药
tcm id id
1803
alias name
缩沙蜜; 缩砂仁; 缩砂密
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