砂仁是热带和亚热带特有的一种植物,它的果实是中医常用的一味芳香性药材。多栽培或野生于海拔100～500m有一定蔽荫的山谷或溪流旁和土层深厚疏松、腐殖质丰富的地域。砂仁在我国的药用历史悠久,据宋《本草图经》云:“缩砂密生南地,今惟岭南山泽间有之,苗茎似高良姜,高三四尺,叶青,长八九寸,阔半寸以来,三月四月开花在根下,五月六月成实,五七十枚作一穗,状似益智皮紧厚而皱如栗纹,外有刺黄赤色,皮间细子一团,八漏可四十余粒,如黍米大,微黑色, Amomum is a tropical and subtropical plants, its fruit is commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine blind aromatic herbs. Multi-cultivated or wild at 100 ~ 500m above sea level has a shade of the valley or streams and deep soil loose, humus-rich areas. Amomum long history of medicinal use in our country, according to Song ”Sketch of the sketches“ cloud: ”shrinking sand near the South, but now there is between the mountains ridge Ze, seedlings stems like galangal, three and four feet high, Ye Qing, Eighty-eight inches long, half a inch wide, March April flowering under the roots, in May May a success, fifty or seventy for a spike, like a puzzle-like skin thick and wrinkled chestnut grain, outside the barbed Yellow red, between the skin a fine group, eight leaks can be more than 40 tablets, such as millet large, slightly black,