What is the difference between cardamom and grass fruit?

Grass cardamom and grass fruit are both medicinal materials that can be used to dehumidify, and they are also very similar, so they are often mistaken. What is the difference between cardamom and grass fruit?

What is the difference between cardamom and grass fruit?

1. Form

Caokou: the ball is spherical, 1.5-2.7cm in diameter, the surface is brown, and there is a white diaphragm in the middle to divide the seed mass into 3 lobes, each with 22-100 seeds, with tight adhesion; slightly smooth, not easy to scatter.

Grass fruit: long oval, with three obtuse ribs, 2-100px long and 1-62.5px in diameter. The surface is grayish brown to reddish brown, with longitudinal grooves and ribs, with a rounded columnar base at the top, and fruit pedicels or pedicel scars at the base.

two。 Main treatment

Grass fruit: for internal resistance of cold and dampness, abdominal distension, fullness and vomiting, cold and fever of malaria, plague fever.

Caoke: dryness and dampness invigorate the spleen, warm the stomach and stop vomiting. It is used for internal resistance of cold and dampness, abdominal distension and cold pain, belching and vomiting, not thinking about diet.

3. Place of Origin

Grass fruit: mainly produced in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places.

Grass bandits: mainly produce Guangdong, Taiwan, Hainan and Guangxi.