-- Acupuncture -- -- Moxibustion -- Shiatsu Massage -- Esthetics -- ChiropracticAmomum
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Botanical name |
Amomum villosum |
| Pin yin name | Sha Ren | |
| Pin yin description | (sha means sand, but is just the general term for cardamoms and can be applied to several species of Amomum and Alpinia; ren means seed) | |
| Other common names | Villous Amomum | |
| Part used | Fruit (collected late summer and early autumn when fruits are ripe) |
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| Taste | Pungent | |
| Nature | Warm | |
| Traditional Chinese uses | Transform damp, regulate qi, warm the center | |
| Traditional Chinese applications | Stagnation of qi and damp in the center with symptoms of distention and pain in the abdomen, poor appetite, vomiting, and diarrhoea; diarrhoea and vomiting due to other causes | |
| Possible unwanted effects | None | |
| Herb drug interactions | None | |
| TCM and other contraindications | Yin deficiency with heat signs | |
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