Tsaoko (Caoguo)

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