Effects and functions of Chinese herbal medicine cinnamon twig

The efficacy and role of cinnamon twig: cinnamon twig is also called willow cinnamon. The efficacy of cinnamon twig is to dispel cold and replenish deficiency, regulate meridians, promote yang and transform qi. The role of cinnamon twig is to treat cold symptoms, damp cold pain, cold limbs, liver depression and kidney deficiency, menstrual pain, mass, chest pain, palpitations, phlegm, and urinary obstruction. The taboos of taking cinnamon twig are high fever, yin deficiency and fire, blood

Effects and efficacy

Effects of cinnamon twig:

Cinnamon twig is also called Liugui. The effects of cinnamon twig are to dispel cold and replenish deficiency, regulate meridians, promote yang and transform qi. The function of cinnamon twig is to treat cold symptoms, damp-cold arthralgia, cold limbs, liver depression and kidney deficiency, menstrual pain, masses, chest pain, palpitations, phlegm, and difficulty urinating. People who should not take cinnamon twig are people with high fever, yin deficiency and excessive fire, and blood heat.

Drug name: cinnamon twig.

Action classification: antipyretic drug.

Other name: Liugui.

Poria cocos effects: pungent; sweet; warm.

Meridians: Bladder meridian; Heart meridian; Lung meridian.

Function: Dispel cold and replenish deficiency; regulate meridians; promote yang and transform qi.

Indications: Cold symptoms on the surface; pain due to dampness and cold; cold limbs; menstrual pain due to liver depression and kidney deficiency; masses and clusters; chest pain; palpitations; turbid phlegm; and difficulty urinating.

Dosage and Instructions: Oral administration: decoction 1.5-6g, maximum dosage can be up to 15-30g; or made into pills or powder.

Source: The branches of the cinnamon bark plant of the Lauraceae family.

Chinese medicine preparation method:

Cassia twig: Soak in tap water for a while, remove from the water, and let it soak until thoroughly moistened. Cut into slices, dry in the sun, and sieve out the dandruff.

Cassia twig tips: Take thin twigs of cassia twig, soak them slightly, steam until moistened thoroughly, cut into slices, and dry in the sun.

Cassia wood: Take the peeled cassia twigs, soak them for a while, moisten them thoroughly, cut them into slices, and dry them in the sun.

The role of cinnamon twig:

Effects of Guizhi Fuling: pungent; sweet; warm in nature, enters the bladder meridian; heart meridian; lung meridian. Cinnamon twig can induce sweating and relieve muscles, warm the meridians and dredge blood vessels, assist yang and transform qi, dispel cold and relieve pain. It is mainly used for external symptoms of cold syndrome; pain due to dampness and cold; cold limbs; menstrual pain due to liver depression and kidney deficiency; masses and clusters; chest pain; palpitations; turbid phlegm; and difficulty urinating. It is used for colds due to wind and cold, cold pain in the abdomen, cold blood, liver depression, kidney deficiency, pain in bones and joints, turbid phlegm, edema, palpitations, and running piglet.

1. Guizhi is used to treat sunstroke, with floating Yang and weak Yin. When Yang is floating, the heat is spontaneous, and when Yin is weak, the patient sweats spontaneously, is afraid of cold, has cold limbs, has a hot sensation, and has nasal congestion and nausea: 3 liang of guizhi (peeled), 3 liang of peony flower, 2 liang of licorice (roasted), 3 liang of ginger slices (cut), and 12 red dates (split). Take the above five ingredients, chop three of them into small pieces, add seven liters of water, boil on low heat until three liters are left, remove the dregs, and take one liter of the medicine after warming it up according to the temperature. After taking it, sip more than one liter of hot porridge immediately to help the efficacy of the medicine. Cover yourself with warmth for about an hour. It is better if you feel a slight sweat all over your body.

2. Cinnamon twigs are used to treat typhoid fever with dry Yang pulse and deep Yin pulse. When the patient has acute pain in the stomach: 150 grams of cinnamon twigs (peeled), 100 grams of licorice, 12 red dates (split), 30 grams of peony flower, 150 grams of ginger slices (cut), and one liter of maltose. Boil the above six ingredients with seven liters of water and take out three liters. Remove the dregs and add the malt extract. Continue to simmer over low heat until simmered. Take one liter of warm medicine three times a day. (Xiao Jianzhong Decoction from Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

3. Guizhi is used to treat typhoid fever for eight or nine days, with rheumatism and pain in the body, inability to turn at a constant speed, no vomiting or thirst, and a floating, weak and astringent pulse: 4 liang of cinnamon twig (peeled), 3 pieces of rutabaga (blasted, peeled, and broken), 3 liang of sliced ​​ginger (cut), 12 red dates (split), and 2 liang of licorice (roasted). Take the above five ingredients, add six liters of water, boil and take two liters, remove the residue and divide into three portions to take warm.

4. Cinnamon twig is used to treat sweating, floating pulse, difficulty urinating, fever and thirst after sweating caused by solar disease: 18 zhu of Poria cocos (peeled), 80 g of Alisma orientalis, 18 zhu of Atractylodes macrocephala, 18 zhu of Poria cocos, 25 g of cinnamon twig (peeled). Grind the above five ingredients into powder. Mix with pure grain wine and take a small amount three times a day. (Wuling Powder from Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

5. Cinnamon twig is used to treat pain in various limbs, emaciation, swollen feet, dizziness, shortness of breath, and warm feeling and nausea: 4 liang of cinnamon twig, 3 liang of peony flower, 2 liang of licorice, 2 liang of lindera stalk, 5 liang of ginger slices, 5 liang of Atractylodes macrocephala and Poria cocos, 4 liang of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, 4 liang of Saposhnikovia divaricata, and one piece of Lu Te Technology (blasted). Take the above nine ingredients, add seven liters of water, boil and take two liters, take seven he of the warm liquid three times a day.

6. Cinnamon twig treats phlegm in the lower part of the heart and fullness in the chest and flanks: 4 liang of Poria cocos, 150 g of cinnamon twig (peeled), 100 g of Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, 100 g of licorice (roasted). Boil the above four ingredients with six liters of water and take out three liters of water and discard the residue. Take warm in three doses. (Fuling Guizhi Baizhu Fuling Gancao Decoction from Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

7. Cinnamon twig is used to treat chest tightness, various counterflows, and heart pain: 3 liang of cinnamon twig and ginger slices, 5 liang of Citrus aurantium. Take the above three ingredients, add six liters of water, boil and take three liters, divide into three portions and take warm.

8. Guizhi is used to treat chronic diseases in women. If the menstruation has not been interrupted for three months and the fetus keeps moving above the navel, it is a chronic disease. If the baby moves in the sixth month of pregnancy, it is the fetus during the first three menstrual periods. If there is bleeding, stop having sex for three months. This is called urinary incontinence. Therefore, if the bleeding does not stop, it is because the symptoms have not been eliminated. The current symptoms are: cinnamon twig, Poria cocos, peony flower (without the core), peach kernel (peeled, pointed, and boiled), and peony flower each in equal parts. Grind the above five ingredients into powder, mix with refined honey and make into pills as big as rabbit droppings. Take one pill before meals every day. If you don’t know, increase to three pills. (Guizhi Fuling Pills, Synopsis of the Golden Chamber)

9. Guizhi is used to treat patients with palpitations below the navel after sweating due to typhoid fever, which is likely to cause a paroxysmal pig disease: 500 grams of Poria cocos, 4 liang of Guizhi (peeled), 2 liang of Licorice (roasted), and 15 red dates (split). Take the above four ingredients, add one dou of sweet and sour water, first boil the Poria, reduce the volume by two liters, add other ingredients, boil until three liters are left, remove the residue, take one liter while warm, three times a day.

10. Cinnamon twig is used to treat asthenia, palpitations, nosebleed, stomachache, nocturnal emission, sore limbs, hot hands and feet, dry throat and mouth: 3 liang of cinnamon twig (peeled), 2 liang of licorice (roasted), 12 red dates, 6 liang of peony flower, 3 liang of ginger slices, and 1 liter of maltose. Take the above six ingredients, add seven liters of water, boil and reduce to three liters, remove the dregs, add jelly, and simmer on low heat until it is reduced to zero. Take one liter while still warm, three times a day. ("Golden Chamber Essentials")

11. Guizhi is used to treat spermatorrhea with tight and tense lower abdomen, cold glans, blurred vision, hair loss, extremely weak and slow pulse. It is due to blood loss and spermatorrhea due to the loss of appetite. The pulse is slightly tight and moving. Use 3 liang each of cinnamon twig, peony flower, ginger slices, 2 liang of licorice, 12 red dates, 3 liang each of dragon bone and du li. Take the above seven ingredients, add seven liters of water, boil and take three liters, divide into three portions and take warm. ("Golden Chamber Essentials")

12. Guizhi treats blood stasis with both yang and yin being weak, Cunkou pulse slightly closed, Chizhong pulse tight and small, with external symptoms of numbness in the human body, like wind-induced arthritis: 3 liang of Scutellaria baicalensis, 3 liang of Paeonia lactiflora, 3 liang of cinnamon twig, 6 liang of ginger slices, and 12 red dates. Take the above five ingredients, add six liters of water, boil and take two liters, take seven he of the warm liquid three times a day. (Huangqin Guizhi Wuwu Decoction) (Synopsis of the Golden Chamber)