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【Nature and flavor】Spicy, sweet, hot.

[Effects] It is the dry bark and branch bark of the cinnamon bark of the Lauraceae family. It is mainly used to treat the decline of the gate of life fire, cold limbs and weak pulse, yang deficiency and collapse, abdominal pain and diarrhea, cold hernia and running pig, cold pain in the waist and knees, amenorrhea, lumps, yin carbuncle, leukorrhea, and floating of false yang, heat on the upper body and cold on the lower body.

[return through meridians] enters kidney meridian, spleen meridian and bladder meridian.

[Indications] Tonify the primordial yang, warm the spleen and stomach, remove cold accumulation, and dredge the blood vessels. Treat the decline of the fire in the gate of life, cold limbs and weak pulse, yang deficiency and collapse, abdominal pain and diarrhea, cold hernia and running pig, cold pain in the waist and knees, amenorrhea, lumps, yin carbuncle, leukorrhea, and floating of the false yang, heat on the upper body and cold on the lower body.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 2-5g, not suitable for long-term decoction; grind into powder, 0.5-1.5g; or make into pills.

For external use: take appropriate amount, grind into powder, and apply; soak in wine, and rub.

[Note: Taboos] It is contraindicated in patients with Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, and pregnant women should take it with caution.

【Medical records】

"Shennong's Herbal Classic": It can treat cough and reverse breathing, vomiting and inhalation caused by gas stagnation in the throat, benefit the joints, and replenish the middle and benefit the Qi.

"Bie Lu": It can treat heartache, hypochondriac wind, hypochondriac pain, warm tendons, dredge meridians, stop restlessness and sweating. It can warm the middle, benefit the liver and lung qi, treat cold and heat in the heart and abdomen, cold diseases, cholera cramps, headaches, back pain, stop saliva, coughs, and nasal congestion; it can induce abortion, strengthen bones and joints, dredge blood vessels, and relieve insufficiency; it can promote hundreds of medicines and be fearless.

"Materia Medica": It can treat nine kinds of heartache, kill three kinds of worms, break blood, relieve menstrual blockage, treat soft feet, numbness, numbness, retained placenta, eliminate cough, qi stagnation, numbness, stop cold air in the abdomen, unbearable pain, treat diarrhea, nasal polyps. Kill plant poison.

"Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): It can cure all kinds of wind-related diseases, replenish the five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries, open the nine orifices, benefit the joints, improve the essence, improve the eyesight, warm the waist and knees, break up lumps and tumors, eliminate blood stasis, treat rheumatism, joint contracture, repair tendons and bones, and grow muscles.

"Zhenzhunang": removes wind evil in the Wei system and relieves lower abdominal pain in autumn and winter.

"The Origin of Medicine": It replenishes the deficiency of the lower burner, treats deep cold, chronic cold and spontaneous sweating due to superficial deficiency.

"Compendium of Materia Medica": It can treat cold arthralgia, aphonia, blood loss due to yin excess, diarrhea, convulsions, and blood loss due to yang deficiency, and can treat carbuncles, ulcers, and pox. It can induce blood to turn into sweat and pus, and can detoxify snake venom.

【Predecessors release medicine】

"Ben Cao Jing Shu": cinnamon twig, cinnamon heart, cinnamon bark, the five flavors are pungent and sweet, which are yang, and the four qi are hot, which is also yang; the taste is pure yang, so it can disperse wind and cold; it can fill the outside from the inside, so it can strengthen the surface; pungent to disperse, hot to move, sweet to harmonize, so it can enter the blood and promote blood circulation, moisten the kidney dryness. Its main function is to benefit the liver and lung qi, headache, sweating, stop restlessness, stop salivation, cough, nasal congestion, insufficient sedation, spontaneous sweating due to deficiency of the surface, and pain in the joints due to wind arthralgia are also treated by cinnamon twig. Because all diseases are caused by the deficiency of the surface that cannot withstand wind and cold, and the cold evil guest, so all of them are treated, because they can strengthen the surface and expel evil. It is used to treat cold and heat diseases in the heart and abdomen, cholera cramps, back pain, abortion, warm the middle, strengthen the tendons and bones, dredge the blood vessels, promote the circulation of all medicines, and replenish the deficiency of the lower part of the body, treat chronic cold, seep, quench thirst, stop the cold in the middle of the blood and body defense, and treat the lower abdominal pain in autumn and winter caused by cold, replenish the gate of life, and replenish fire and eliminate yin. This is what cinnamon can treat. The qi is thin and light, floating up to the surface, so cinnamon twig treats the disease of evil invaders in the exterior. The taste is thick, sweet, spicy and hot, and it moves downward to the interior, so cinnamon and cinnamon heart treat the deficiency of true fire in the gate of life, yang deficiency and cold in the middle, and all the diseases of deficiency of the interior and cold of the yin, and the cold evil invaders i