-- Acupuncture -- -- Moxibustion -- Shiatsu Massage -- Esthetics -- ChiropracticAlpinia
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Botanical name |
Alpinia oxyphylla |
| Pin yin name | Yi Zhi Ren | |
| Pin yin description | (yi means to increase or benefit; zhi refers to intelligence and wisdom; ren is a small fruit, nut, or seed; this is the fruit that benefits intelligence; there is a theory that these mental attributes benefit from clear essence arising from the spleen, derived from food; hence, herbs that warm up the spleen to enhance its function of extracting pure essence from food, as alpinia does, can produce this desired result) | |
| Other common names | Bitter Cardamom, Black Cardamom | |
| Part used | Fruit (collected in summer and autumn when they turn from green to red) |
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| Taste | Pungent | |
| Nature | Warm | |
| Traditional Chinese uses | Warm the spleen and kidney, astringe fluid | |
| Traditional Chinese applications | Cold spleen and kidney with symptoms of abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhoea; cold deficiency of the center, with symptoms of poor appetite and profuse saliva; impotence and enuresis due to cold deficiency of kidney qi | |
| Possible unwanted effects | None | |
| Herb drug interactions | None | |
| TCM and other contraindications | Heat syndromes | |
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