Amomum tsao-ko Crevost & Lemarie: a comprehensive review on traditional uses, botany, phytochemistry, and pharmacology.

ABSTRACT: Tsaoko Fructus, the dried ripe fruit of Amomum tsao-ko Crevost & Lemarié, is used as both medicinal material and food additive. This review summarized the traditional uses, botany, phytochemistry, and pharmacological progress on Tsaoko Fructus. One classical prescription and the other 11 representative prescriptions containing Tsaoko Fructus were reviewed. The indications of these prescriptions are major in treating spleen and stomach disorders and epidemic febrile diseases including malaria. At least 209 compounds have been isolated and identified from Tsaoko Fructus, most of which belong to terpenoids, phenylpropanoids, and organic acids. Essential oil, crude extract, and some compounds were observed to have pharmacological activities such as anti-biotics, anti-inflammation, antio

SUBMITTER: Yang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8743105 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature