Chinese medicine cinnamon and cinnamon branches come from the same plant, and cinnamon branches are made of young branches, the skin of the trunk of cinnamon trees, or thick branches.
Ban Gui, Qi Bian Gui, Tube Gui, Guan Gui all refer to different specifications and forms of cinnamon, the best is Qi Bian Gui, mainly produced in Vietnam and Guangxi.
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Cinnamon is also a type of cinnamon, which refers to the fact that the general cinnamon has removed the cork on the outside, but there is still a layer of skin on the inside.
In traditional Chinese medicine, cinnamon has the effect of tonifying fire and helping yang, dispersing cold and relieving pain, and warming the meridians. Commonly used for yang deficiency evidence, whether it is kidney yang deficiency, heart yang deficiency, spleen and yang deficiency, can be compatible with the corresponding medicine, the most commonly matched is the appendage, such as kidney qi pills, Gui zhili pills and so on.
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1. Supplementing fire and helping yang - used for kidney yang deficiency, spleen and kidney yang deficiency, heart yang deficiency, virtual yang floating, etc
(1) Kidney yang deficiency
It is often used for impotence caused by insufficient kidney and yang, cold pain in the waist and knees, frequent nocturia, slippery and premature ejaculation, etc., but it is mostly compatible with warm kidney and yang medicines, such as "Jingyue Quanshu" Right Gui Pill, "Golden Essentials" Kidney Qi Pill, "Hefu Bureau" Eight Flavor Pills, etc., often with wu zhizi, deer horn gum and other drugs.
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"Han's Medical Tong" Jiaotai Pills, with cinnamon with Huanglian, are used for palpitations, easy panic, insomnia and other symptoms caused by heart and kidney incompatibility.
"Orchid Room Secret" customs clearance pills, with cinnamon with yellow cedar, Zhimu, for damp heat plague under the scorch, resulting in unfavorable gasification, urinary is not easy to excrete, or small can be discharged but very short, yellow, hot and hot burning pain in the urethral opening.
(2) The void sun floats
Cinnamon is very good at "igniting fire and returning to the yuan", in layman's terms, it is like putting firewood back into the stove. Cinnamon is often used for the rise of the yang caused by kidney yang deficiency, and there is a phenomenon of "true cold and false heat":
That is, it is manifested as fever, irritability, redness, thirst, and large pulse, which is a phenomenon of "false heat"; the real situation is a cold elephant - although the body is hot, it is more to cover the quilt, although thirsty but do not want to drink water or want to drink hot water, the pulse is large but weak, and there are cold limbs, rare stools and indigestible food, long urine, pale tongue and so on. When this happens, it is a false fire floating.
Such as the void of the yang floating caused by wheezing, sweating, limbs cold, red face, etc., you can use cinnamon with appendages to supplement the kidney yang, ignite the fire to return to the yuan, such as "Heshi Bureau" black cetin, with cinnamon with black tin, appendages, fenugreek, nutmeg and so on.
"Surgical Collection" Gui Ginger Soup, with cinnamon with dried ginger and licorice, is used for throat redness, swelling, pain and foreign body sensation caused by the floating of the void sun.
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(3) Spleen and kidney yang deficiency
Spleen and kidney yang deficiency is common for long-term diarrhea, five more diarrhea (3-5 a.m. get up diarrhea), waist acid, cold limbs, diet reduction, fatigue and so on. For example, in the "Three Causes of Fang" Gui Zhili Zhongmaru, cinnamon is used with appendages, ginseng, baishu and so on.
Modern clinics also use cinnamon for external use, with cloves and wood aromas, beaten into powder, placed in a gauze bag, tied with a bandage on the top page of the child's navel, for infant diarrhea. [Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,1985,26(6):75]
(4) Heart yang deficiency
Heart and yang deficiency is common palpitations (the heart beats sharply, panic, and even inability to be autonomous) shortness of breath, chest tightness, insomnia. For example, the "Criterion of Evidence" nourishing heart soup, with cinnamon with ginseng, astragalus, angelica, tonify qi and blood, for palpitations, insomnia.
In addition, in the long-term illness deficiency, lack of qi and blood caused by dizziness, less breath and laziness, fatigue and self-sweating, pale or yellowish face, palpitations and insomnia of the drug (such as ginseng Yang Rong pill, ten quan da soup, etc.) add a small amount of cinnamon, warm transport of yang qi, is conducive to the "yang and yin long" of the tonic medicine, to obtain the effect of encouraging the growth of qi and blood.
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2. Cold relief and pain relief - used for spleen and stomach deficiency type stomach pain, abdominal pain, rheumatic joint pain
(1) Spleen and stomach deficiency cold abdominal pain
It is often used for spleen and yang deficiency, or spleen and stomach real cold, see abdominal pain aggravated by cold, relieved in case of warmth, and at the same time have diarrhea, lack of food and other symptoms.
For example, with cinnamon pills, cinnamon with appendages, dried ginger, ginseng, for abdominal pain, limb cold, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms.
"Yao Monk Tan Collection Test Fang" Guixin Soup, with Guixin with Wu Zhu and ginger decoction, is used for abdominal spasms caused by cold evil coagulation in the abdomen, pain around the umbilicus, fear of cold, cold limbs and sweating symptoms (cold hernia abdominal pain). When the certificate is confirmed, it can also be used with black medicine, green skin, cumin, wood incense, betel nut and so on.
(2) Rheumatic joint pain
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that cinnamon can be used for "cold paralysis", that is, the symptoms of rheumatic joint pain, which are mainly cold symptoms, and it is more common to see low back pain, joint pain, numbness, unfavorable flexion and extension, puffiness, aggravation of cold symptoms, and slight relief in case of heat.
For example, the "Thousand Golden Formulas" solo live parasitic soup, with cinnamon with solo live, mulberry parasitism, Qin Gang, eucommia, etc., for cold and wet waist pain, rheumatic joint pain.
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(3) Precordial area, chest stuffiness
Chest pain caused by cold evil invasion, even back pain (chest paralysis), is often compatible with cold analgesic drugs, such as "Shou Shi Baoyuan" Guifu Pills, with cinnamon with appendages, dried ginger, Sichuan pepper and so on.
3. Wentong meridian - used for dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, bruise trauma caused by cold coagulation and blood stasis
(1) Women have dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea
Cinnamon warms the blood vein, promotes blood circulation, and is often used with blood activating and stasis drugs, which can be used for dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea caused by cold coagulation and stasis.
For example, "Medical Forest Correction" less abdomen and stasis soup, with cinnamon with cumin, angelica, Sichuan root, dried ginger, etc., for menstrual waist acid, small abdominal distension, or menstruation three or five times in January, menstrual color or purple or black, or bruises, or collapse and less abdominal pain, or long-term pregnancy and so on.
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(2) Postpartum abdominal pain
After the woman gave birth, the lochia was not smooth, the blood stasis was blocked and the abdominal pain was not stopped, and the cinnamon could be used to warm the meridians to help dispel the bruising and relieve the pain. For example, "Materia Medica" records that "with angelica and Sichuan root, it is the most effective treatment for women with postpartum blood stasis and pillow pain", which is commonly used in clinical compatibility.
(3) Bruises and trauma
Cinnamon can help dispel bruises and relieve pain, such as "A Thousand Golden Recipes" with cinnamon with angelica, pu huang, wine to serve, for bruises, abdominal bruises and so on.
(4) Skin sores have been ulcerated for a long time
Due to the lack of yang and cold coagulation, blood stasis caused by sores and ulceration for a long time, cinnamon can be used to warm the meridians and encourage qi and blood. "The Complete Party of Doctors" ginseng is scattered with cinnamon with ginseng, poria, angelica, astragalus, etc., for sores and ulcers, and has not been closed for a long time.
The addition of cinnamon to the external ointment helps to generate muscle sores, such as "Surgical Authentic" Huiyang Yulong Cream, "Surgical Whole Collection" Yang and Anti-Coagulation Cream, all of which are made of cinnamon with grass Wu, Bai Zhi, Red Peony and other ointments for external application, which is used for sores for long-term ulceration.
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1, cinnamon should not be fried for a long time, should be put down. Sometimes even without decoction, it can be taken at the end of the study, because its active ingredients are aromatic and volatile.
2, cinnamon is easy to consume yin and blood, so the yin deficiency fire is strong, there is real heat, blood fever is bleeding and there is a tendency to bleed with caution, pregnant women should use caution.
3, the cinnamon in Traditional Chinese medicine, and the cinnamon of cooking dishes, although the appearance is relatively close, the effect is similar, but it is not a thing. Cinnamon is the bark of the plant cinnamon, which is the bark of the laurene and laurel plants of the laurenaceae family. The heat and efficacy of cinnamon bark is weaker than that of cinnamon. [Bulletin of Chinese Materia Medica,1985,10(9):48].
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Resources
"Outline of Jin Kui", "Jingyue Quanshu", "Han's Medical Tong", "Taiping Huimin and Pharmacy Bureau", "Chinese Clinical Chinese Medicine", "Zhang Tingmo Clinical Chinese Medicine Lecture", "Thinking on Chinese Medicine"
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