Round Cardamon Fruit, Round Cardarnon Fruit
Amomi Fructus Rotundus, Fructus Amomi Rotundus
Dou Kou

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pungent; warm

Part(s) used

Fruit

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To resolve damp, to remove stagnancy of food, and to promote digestion.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Treatment of loss of appetite due to accumulation of turbid damp in the spleen and stomach, feeling of suffocation in the chest with anorexia at the early stage of damp-warm syndromes, nausea, vomiting, distension and pain in the chest and abdomen caused