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Cinnamom
Twig (gui zhi)
Ramulus
Cinnamomi
Properties:
The herb is pungent and sweet in flavour, warm in nature and
acting on heart, lung and urinary bladder channels. Pungent and
warm for dispersion and sweet for mild potency, without the
shortcomings of hyperhidrosis damaging Yang, the herb is often
used to treat exterior syndromes of both deficiency and excess
types caused by pathogenic wind-cold. In addition, the herb can
warm blood, invigorate pulse, reinforce Yang and promote Qi
flow. It is an important herb to treat pains due to cold,
deficiency of Yang and water retention.
Effects:
Inducing sweets to dispel
exopathogens, warming the channels to clear obstruction and
reinforcing Yang to promote Qi flow.
Indication:
1. To treat exterior syndromes of deficiency type with
symptoms of wind-cold, perspiration, aversion to wind, floating
and slow pulse, the herb is used in combination with white peony
root, such as Guizhi Decoction to regulate Ying and Wei,
inducing sweats and expelling pathogenic factors from muscles
and skin. To treat exterior syndromes of excess type with
symptoms of wind-cold, aversion to cold, anhidrosis and floating
and tense pulse, such as in Ephedra Decoction the herb can help
ephedra induce sweats and dispel exopathogenic.
2.
The herb is often used in combination with notopterygium
root, ledebouriella root and other herbs for dispelling wind,
dampness, cold and alleviating pain, to treat arthralgia and
pain in the limbs due to wind-cold; with evodia fruit,
chuanxiong rhizome, Chinese angelica root and other herbs, such
a Wenjing Decoction for warming the channels, dispersing cold,
regulating menstruation and alleviating pain, to treat women¡¯s
illness of cold, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and amenia; and with unripened biter orange and macrostem onion,
such as Zhishi Xiebai Guizhi Decoction for activating Yang,
resolving lumps, and alleviating arthralgia and pain, to treat
insufficiency of cheat-Yang and chest pain due to Qi blockage.
3.
It is used in combination with malt extract, such as Xiao
Jianzhong Decoction, for warming the middle-jiao, restoring Qi,
dispersing cold and alleviating pain, to treat cold of
deficiency type in the middle Jiao, cold pain in the stomach and
abdomen, anorexia and loose bowel; with white atractylodes
rhizome and poria for warming Yang, promoting Qi flow,
strengthening the spleen and removing fluid retention, to treat
deficiency of the spleen-Yang, phlegm retention, dizziness and
palpitation; and with umbellate pore fungus, poria, white
atractylodes rhizome for reinforcing Yang, promoting Qi flow,
inducing diuresis and removing edema, such as Wuling Powder, to
treat deficiency of Yang, disturbance in Qi transformation,
water retention, edema and difficulty in urination.
Dosage
and Administration: 3-10g.
Precautions:
Patients with Yin deficiency and excessive fire should be
prohibited to use this herb, and women in pregnancy or with
profuse menstruation should be careful to use it.
Air
ship 500 grams (about 1.1 pound) of
cinnamom twig (gui zhi)
for your personnel use now for
US$20.67.
Note: Before using it, please contact us about how to
use it and the dosage.
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