Sha Ren
砂仁 shā rén, "sand seeds"

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Name	Pin Yin	Chinese	Translated
Amomi Fructus

	Tastes: Acrid		Dosage: 3-6g. When decocted, add near end.
	Aromatic
	Cautions: Heat from yin deficiency, also see Toxicity		Meridians: Spleen , Stomach
	Preparation: No preparation data at this time		Quality: Consists of full, uniform and unfragmented agglutinated, oily seeds, with a hard and heavy texture, and an intense aroma.
	Reference Source: Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica (3rd edition) ('Bensky')		Notes: No notes at this time
	Formulas (13) dān shēn yǐn (Salvia Decoction ) fēn xiāo tāng (Separate and Reduce Decoction) guā loú zhǐ shǐ tāng (Trichosanthes Fruit and Immature Bitter Orange Decoction) jìa wèi wū yào tāng (Augmented Lindera Decoction) jiàn pí wán (Strengthen the Spleen Pill) liù hé tāng (Harmonize the Six Decoction) shēn líng bái zhú sǎn (Ginseng, Poria, and Atractylodes Macrocephala Powd) tài shān pán shí sǎn (Powder that Gives the Stability of Mount Tai) xiāng shā liù jūn zǐ tāng (Six Gentlemen Decoction with Aucklandia and Amomum) xiāng shā píng wèi sǎn (Cyperus and Amomum Powder to Calm the Stomach) xiāng shā yǎng wèi tāng (Nourish the Stomach Decoction with Aucklandia and ) xiāo rǔ wán (Reduce Infantile Stagnation Pill) zhōng mǎn fēn xiāo wán (Separate and Reduce Fullness in the Middle Pill)

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Pharmaceutical: Fructus Amomi

Botanical: Amomum Villosum Lour., Amomum Villosum Lour. Var. Xanthioides T.l. Wu & Senjen

Japanese: sanin

Korean: sain

Common: amomum fruit, grains-of-paradise fruit

Temperature: Warm

	+1 Rootdown Staff (Rootdown Staff) Stops vomiting add comment

	+1 Rootdown Staff (Rootdown Staff) Moves Qi and Strengthens the Stomach. add comment

	+1 Rootdown Staff (Rootdown Staff) Calms the fetus add comment

	+1 Rootdown Staff (Rootdown Staff) Prevents Stagnation from tonics. add comment

	+1 Christopher Arthur (Rootdown Editor) Warms the Middle Jiao and stops diarrhea add comment

	+1 Laura Drago Used in herbal prescriptions with tonifying herbs to prevent them from causing stagnation add comment

	+1 Aumkar Mahabodha Used to increase Medium Jiao's Yang. add comment

	+1 Brandy Proppe Sharen is gassy, bloated, and suffers distention pain. Her damp diarrhea was so bad that she had to call in a momi to calm her fetus. add comment

Sha Ren砂仁 shā rén, "sand seeds"