Round cardamom

[ ] Dò u Pinyin name Kò u
English name [ ] Fructus Amomi Rotundus
[ alias ] white cardamom, round cardamom, nutmeg original, buckle meters.
[ source ] to Zingiberaceae Amomum compactum Amomum compactum Soland. Ex Maton fruit. Autumn when ripe, removed from the seeds for peel, broken.
[ ] the original morphology of perennial herb. Leaves lanceolate, top with long pointed, with the exception of gross margin, glabrous; petiole absent. Ye Shechu was sparsely hairy, glabrescent only sparsely ciliate; leaf sheath mouth glabrous; inflorescences of spikes cylindric; bracts ovate-oblong; calyx tube hairs; corolla white or slightly yellowish; labellum elliptic, slightly concave, pale yellow, midrib has edged with purple orange belt; stamens 1; ovary pilose. Florescence 2 ～ May, fruit period from 6 to August.
[ ] born in ravine humid habitats Distribution Department, China cultivated in shade. Hainan, Yunnan, Guangxi has cultivated. Native to Indonesia.
[ character ] fruit is globose, diameter 0.8 ～1.2cm; surface yellowish white to yellowish brown, with 3 deep longitudinal groove, the top has protruding column bases, base the Ministry has a concave lower stipe marks, both ends of which are provided with light brown hair. Peel easily longitudinally fissured, which is divided into 3 chambers, each chamber containing the seeds of about 10 grains. The seeds are irregular polyhedron, abaxially slightly uplift, diameter of 3～ 4mm, surface dark brown, wrinkled. Gas aromatic, slightly cooler Weixin like camphor.
[ ] chemical composition containing eucalyptol, borneol, d- b-, a- pinene terpineol etc..
[ ] the taste of warm, spicy.
[ ] functions of wet and stomach, gas line width in. For loss of appetite, nausea, chest and stomach pain in the stomach.
[ note ] A.kravanh Pirre ex Gagnep. cardamom fruit is used as medicine.
[ ] " * dictionary " excerpt
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