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Villous Amomum Fruit is the dried ripe fruit of Amomum
villosum Lour. Amomum villosum Lour. var xanthioides
T. L. Wu et Senjen or Amomum longiligulare T. L. Wu
(Fam. Zingiberaceae).
Action:
To eliminate damp and imporve appetite,
to warm the spleen and check diarrhea, and to prevent abortion.
Indications:
Accumulation of damp in the spleen and the stomach
marked by epigastric stuffiness and anorexia; vomiting and
diarrhea in deficiency-cold syndrome of the spleen and the
stomach; pernicious vomiting of pregnancy; threatened abortion.
Usage: Added
when the decoction is nearly done.
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