Canarium, Qing Guo 青果
Chinese White OliveQing Guo, Gan Lan (TCM)
Green Canarium fruit Qing GuoBotanical name:
Canarium album
Parts used:
Dried Ripe Fruit; also fresh fruit
Temperature & Taste:
Neutral. Sweet, Sour
Classification:
B. Clears Heat and Poison
Uses:
1. Clears Heat, Resists Poison, Promotes Fluids, Benefits the Throat:
-Wind-Heat and Heat-Toxin conditions of the Throat
-Hoarseness, dry mouth and throat, irritating dry Cough
-it can be atomized and inhaled for Pharyngitis
-poisons including Seafood poisoning
-as a Folk Remedy to reduce alcohol intoxication (it is added to wine for this purpose)
-kernels of 7 green Canarium seeds was given to children against Small Pox
2. Clears Damp-Heat:
-Diarrhea, Dysentery
Dose:
Decoction: 4–12 grams, up to 15 grams (15–30 grams fresh)
Powder: 1–3 grams
Preparation:
The fruits are sometimes preserved with salt by soaking in salt water before drying. They are also sometimes blanched in boiling water before drying. They can also be simply dried in the shade.
Main Combinations:
1. Sore Throat:
i. Acute from Heat-Toxin, Canarium fruit with Licorice
ii. Canarium fruit, Lonicera Jin Yin Hua, Platycodon Jie Geng
iii. Cararium fruit with Borax (Peng Sha), Indigo (Qing Dai), Borneo Camphor (Bing Pian), powdered and blown directly onto the throat
iv. Swollen Sore Throat, Hoarseness: Green Canarium fruit, Platycodon Jie Geng, Calcite, Indigo (Qing Dai), Borax, Licorice, Borneo Camphor
2. Diphtheria, Green Canarium fruit, fresh Radish (30 grams each), decoct and drink as tea. (Barefoot Doctors Manual)
3. Restless Fetus with dry mouth, Canarium fruit with Pork Belly boiled into a soup. Eat the meat and drink the soup. (Journal of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1982)
4. Alcohol intoxication, decoct 10 Canarium fruits and drink.
5. Seafood poisoning including puffer fish, drink the fresh juice or strong decoction.
Major Formulas:
Cautions:
None noted