Villous Amomum Fruit
Fructus Amomi, Amomi Fructus
Sha Ren

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pungent; warm

Part(s) used

Ripe fruit or seed

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To eliminate damp and improve appetite, to warm the spleen and check diarrhea, and to prevent abortion.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Abdominal pain glomus distention, food stagnation in torpid stomach, dysphagia-occlusion, vomiting, cold dysentery, stirring fetus in pregnancy.