Speaking of cinnamon, everyone knows. Do you know what cinnamon is? In fact, cassia twig is a dry twig of Cinnamomum cassia. What effect and function does cassia twig have? How to eat cassia twig? Then this issue of dietotherapy will take you to make a delicious and healthy medicated diet with cassia twig.

Efficacy and function of cassia twig

Guizhi, also called Liugui, is a dry twig of Cinnamomum cassia. Harvesting in spring and summer, removing leaves and drying, or slicing and drying. Ramulus Cinnamomi has the effects of dispelling cold, relieving exterior syndrome, warming meridians, protecting liver, relieving alcoholism, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, and is often used to treat common cold, fever and aversion to cold. In addition, cassia twig also has the effect of sobering up.

Ramulus Cinnamomi has the effects of calming the heart and calming the qi and reducing adverse reactions. Its purpose is to calm the impulse and reduce the unfavorable qi by warming, dispelling cold and condensing the water and dampness in the lower energizer, which is essentially different from the qi beneficial to the liver and lung. It is the qi of soothing the liver and lung, smoothing the qi, and lowering the adverse qi. Guizhi Jia Gui Decoction and Gui Ling Caozao Decoction in Zhongjing Prescription all embody the characteristics of calming adverse events and treating running dolphins.

Ramulus Cinnamomi can warm and disperse the water vapor in the bladder, so that the flushing gas can not be reflected from the abdomen, but can evaporate the water vapor from the back and outside. It can be said that the effect of calming impulse and lowering adverse flow is a special application of the effect of warming Yang Qi with Guizhi. Because of its particularity, doctors in past dynasties listed it as an effect. The effects of cassia twig are: dispelling cold, relieving exterior syndrome, regulating ying and Wei, warming yang, "treating all diseases", warming blood vessels, "fearless", calming the liver, lowering adverse reactions, benefiting the liver and moistening the lungs.

Tao Hongjing first mentioned the function of Guizhi in "benefiting liver and lung qi", which includes calming the liver and soothing the liver. Benefiting lung qi refers to lowering lung qi. How does cassia twig with pungent and warm taste calm the liver and suppress the lung? "There are no miscellaneous trees under the osmanthus tree" (Lu Chunqiu). From ancient records, it can be seen that the osmanthus tree can "gram" other trees and is the "king of hundreds of trees". Traditional Chinese medicine is extended to the idea that Guizhi can calm, cut and inhibit the liver. Ye, a master of febrile diseases, has a more incisive conclusion: "Gui Wen, grasp the qi of spring cold, enter Jueyin liver meridian;" It is pungent and non-toxic, and it has the golden taste of moistening dryness in the west, and enters the Taiyin lung meridian. "From the smell and habits of cassia twig, it shows that cassia twig is beneficial to the qi of liver and lung.

Guizhi Gu Jialong Muli Decoction

Materials: 9 grams of cassia twig, 9 grams of peony, 9 grams of ginger, 6 grams of licorice, 0/2 pieces of jujube/kloc-,9 grams of keel and 9 grams of oyster.

Usage: Take seven ingredients, 700 ml of water and 300 ml of boiled water, and take them three times.

Efficacy: balance yin and yang, subdue and consolidate. Treat yin and yang deficiency, wet dream's nocturnal emission, scanty abdomen, rapid string, cold head of yin, dizziness, and delayed or tight pulse; It also treats enuresis such as deficiency and cold of lower energizer, epigastric insufficiency, and palpitation under umbilicus.

Guizhi ginseng chicken soup

Materials: Ramulus Cinnamomi 12g, Radix Glycyrrhizae 12g, Atractylodis Rhizoma 9g, Ginseng 9g and Zingiberis Rhizoma 9g.

Usage: Take 900 ml of water, first boil licorice, Atractylodes macrocephala, ginseng and dried ginger, take 500 ml, and take 300 ml of cassia twig. Take 100 ml warm clothes twice a day and once a night.

Efficacy: Indications: relieving exterior temperature. Treating taiyang disease, the exterior syndrome is not removed, but counted, so that the middle jiao is deficient in cold, the lower jiao keeps on, the heart is swollen and hard, and the exterior and interior are different.

Processing method of cassia twig

Ramulus Cinnamomi: Soak in water, fish out, fully moisten, slice, dry, and sieve to remove debris.

Ramulus Cinnamomi: Take peeled Ramulus Cinnamomi, soak it slightly, fully moisten it, slice it and dry it.

Ramulus Cinnamomi Tip: Take the branch tip of Ramulus Cinnamomi, slightly soak it, fully moisten it, slice it, and dry it.