Medicinal value of white cardamom

As modern society becomes more and more developed, people's views on diet are also quietly changing, tending more and more towards health preservation. As the public's awareness of health care increases, many diets have been created to cater to the public's needs. For example, many people now like to drink health-preserving porridge, and beans are an indispensable ingredient in porridge. Foods such as red beans, mung beans, and flower beans have become essential foods for health preservation.

There is a leguminous plant called cardamom, which is also loved by many people. This is not only because it is rich in nutritional value and is a good product for health preservation, but also because it has good medicinal value.

White cardamom has a spicy and warm taste and enters the lung, spleen, and stomach meridians. It has the functions of eliminating dampness and warming the middle, promoting qi and stopping vomiting, and is especially good at "warming". It is often used to treat symptoms such as chest and abdominal distension, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and greasy tongue coating caused by dampness blocking the spleen and stomach, dampness blocking qi stagnation, or spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. 1. Antibacterial effect: The 100% shell decoction of this product has an inhibitory effect on Shigella dysenteriae using the flat plate trenching method.

2. Antiasthmatic effect: The α-terpineol contained in this product has a strong antiasthmatic effect. At a dose of 0.05ml/kg, its effect on guinea pig tracheal smooth muscle is stronger than that of mugwort oil. 4-Pinpineol also has a significant antiasthmatic effect.

3. It has aromatic stomachic and carminative effects: Cardamom oil is very unstable. Even if it is well stored, it often loses its unique aroma. It can usually be made into aromatic tinctures or spirits. The seeds should be ground before use. They have good aromatic stomachic effects, can promote gastric juice secretion, stimulate intestinal peristalsis, expel intestinal gas accumulation, and inhibit abnormal fermentation in the intestine.

4. Inhibitory effect: White cardamom decoction has low-concentration excitatory effect on the isolated intestine of guinea pigs; concentrations above 1% and saturated aqueous solutions of volatile oil have inhibitory effects.

5. Other effects: Its volatile oil can enhance the effect of small doses of streptomycin on experimental tuberculosis in guinea pigs.

The medicinal value of white cardamom has established its important position in the medical field. For the sake of health, we can also appropriately increase the consumption of white cardamom in our daily life, not only because of its nutrition, but also because of its medicinal function.