Cinnamon is the dry bark of the camphor plant cinnamon, belongs to the warm class of Chinese herbal medicine, its flavor is pungent, sweet, sex is hot, pure yang warm dispersal, belonging to the kidney, spleen, heart, liver meridian, into the kidney meridian, the good warming and tonifying the fire of the fate of the fire and benefit yang elimination of yin, lead the fire back to the source for the treatment of the lower part of the deficiency of the cold, the deficiency of the yang on the floating of the key medicine. It enters the spleen meridian and is good at warming the spleen yang and dispersing the evils of the Sai, and is a good treatment for cold in yang deficiency. It enters the heart, liver and blood meridians, and is good at dispersing yin and cold in the blood meridians, warming the meridians and opening the veins, and is commonly used for treating cold coagulation and blood stasis. It has the effect of tonifying fire to help Yang, drawing fire back to the source, dispersing cold, relieving pain and warming the meridians. 用于肾阳不足、命门火衰之阳痿、官冷、畏寒肢冷；下元虚冷、虚阳上浮之上热下寒证；阳虚中寒之脘腹冷痛、食少便溏；经寒血滞之痛经、闭经，寒疝腹痛，寒湿痹痛，腰痛；阴疽，痈肿脓成不溃或久溃不敛。

Cinnamon is often used in conjunction with Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori. Cinnamon is pungent, sweet and hot, with the function of tonifying fire to help Yang, dispersing cold and clearing the veins; Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori is pungent and hot, with the function of tonifying fire to help Yang, dispersing cold and relieving pain. The combination of the two drugs, tonifying fire to help Yang, dispersing cold and pain relief strong, treatment of kidney yang deficiency, spleen and kidney yang failure and the severe cold in the available. Cinnamon is used internally, decoction, 2~5g, not after; powder, 1~2g each time; or into pills. Cinnamon from the thick branches or young dry bark is called official cinnamon, the effect is weaker, the dosage can be increased appropriately.

Modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that cinnamon has sedative, analgesic, hypothermic, increase dopamine, 5-hydroxytryptamine and other neurotransmitters, anti-myocardial ischemia, reduce peripheral vascular resistance, antihypertensive, cardiovascular, anti-platelet aggregation, anti-coagulant, anti-thrombosis, cardiotonic, anti-allergic, inhibit the secretion of gastric acid, increase the gastric mucous membrane blood flow, gastric mucosa, protection, anti-peptic ulcers, promotion of bile secretion, inhibition of small intestine and colorectal diarrhea, relieve gastrointestinal smooth muscle spasm, relieve pain, elevate white blood cells, anti-radiation, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-ascaris lumbricoides, inhibit cholesterol elevation, increase androgens, inhibit thyroid hormones, increase insulin activity, protect adrenal cortex function, anti-tumor, asthma and other pharmacological effects.

Cinnamon has been used in bronchial asthma, pediatric diarrhea, frostbite, lumbago, cervical spondylosis clinical reports. It should be noted that the use of cinnamon, cinnamon pungent and hot to help the fire blood, so pregnant women and solid heat, blood heat, should not be taken, Yin deficiency fire should not be used alone. Cinnamon is afraid of red stone resin, can not be used together.

In Chinese medicine, cinnamon hasTonifying fire and promoting yang, dispersing cold, relieving pain and warming the meridians.The effect of the

I. Nourishing fire and boosting yang - for kidney yang deficiency, spleen and kidney yang deficiency, heart yang deficiency, and deficiency yang uplift

1. Kidney yang deficiency

Often used in cases of Kidney-Yang deficiencyImpotence, cold uterus, cold pain in the waist and knees, frequent urination at night and premature ejaculation, etc., but it is mostly paired with warming and tonifying Kidney-Yang medicines.As in the case of the Jingyue Quanshu (景岳全书)Right Angelica PillsThe Golden Poverty SyntaxXiaoqi Pill (Chinese medicine)The Harmonious Dosage Bureau (《和剂局方》)eight flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter)etc., often accompanied by medicines such as epiphyllum and deer antler gelatin.

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Jiao Tai Wan (交泰丸), using cinnamon with rhizome, is used for palpitations, easy startling, and insomnia caused by the lack of communication between the heart and the kidney.

2、Deficiency Yang Upward Floating

Due to deficiency of kidney yang and upward movement of deficiency yangShortness of breath, sweating, cold limbs, red faceetc., can be usedCinnamon with Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni MultifloriIt is a great tonic for kidney yang and draws the fire back to the origin, such as Hejiaobingfang Heixidan. Gui Jiang Tang uses cinnamon with dried ginger and licorice, and is used for treating deficiency yang caused by upward floatingsore throat。

sore throat

3. Spleen and kidney yang deficiency

commonly seenProlonged diarrhea, five night diarrhea (waking up with diarrhea at 3-5 a.m.), lumbar pain, cold limbs, reduced diet, fatigueetc. For example, the Three Causes FormulaGui Fu Lizhong Pill, using cinnamon with epiphyllum, ginseng, and atractylodes.

Modern clinical also use cinnamon external, with cloves, wood incense, beaten into powder, placed in a gauze bag, with a bandage tied to the navel of the child on a page, for infants and young children with diarrhea. [Journal of traditional Chinese medicine, 1985, 26(6):75].

infantile diarrhea

4. Heart Yang Deficiency

Heart-Yang deficiency is commonPalpitations, shortness of breath, chest tightnessIt is often used with cinnamon with ginseng, astragalus and other warm-yang qi tonic drugs. For example, the "evidence of the quasi-diagnostic" heart nourishing soup, with cinnamon with ginseng, astragalus, angelica, used for thePalpitations, insomniaIt replenishes Qi and strengthens blood.

Dispersing cold and relieving pain - for cold spleen and stomach stomach pain, abdominal pain, rheumatism and arthralgia.

1、Abdominal pain with cold spleen and stomach

commonly seenAbdominal pain aggravated by cold and relieved by warmth, accompanied by diarrhea and low food intakeand other symptoms. For example, the Pill of Conjugated Gui Lizhong Pill is made of cinnamon with congeners, sensation, and ginseng, and is used for symptoms such as abdominal pain, cold limbs, vomiting, and diarrhea.

2、Rheumatic joint pain

The Compendium of Materia Medica records that cinnamon can be used for "cold paralysis", that is, rheumatic arthralgia in the predominantly cold symptoms, lumbar pain, joint pain, numbness, flexion and extension of the unfavorable, swollen, symptoms worsened in the cold, slightly relieved by heat.

For example, the Thousand Golden Essentials Formula, Duhuo parasitic soup, uses cinnamon with Duhuo, Sangsheng, Gentiana, and Cortex Eucommiae, and is used for cold-dampness lumbago and rheumatism-paralysis pain.

Warming the meridians - used for dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, bruises and injuries caused by cold and blood stasis.

1. Dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea in women

Cinnamon can be used for cold and blood stasisDysmenorrhea, amenorrheaFor example, the "Medical Forest Reform and Error" Shaogongxu Tang (少腹逐瘀汤) uses cinnamon with cumin, angelica sinensis, chuanxiong rhizoma, and dry ginger, and is used toLow back pain during menstruation, abdominal distension, or menstruation three to five times a month, with purple or black color, or with blood stasis, or collapse with pain in the lower abdomen, or prolonged infertility.etc.

dysmenorrhoea

2、Traumatic injuries from bruises

Cinnamon can help remove blood stasis and relieve pain, for example, "Thousand Golden Essentials" uses cinnamon with angelica and Pu Huang, and takes it with wine, used forinjury such as contusion, sprain or fracture from falling, blow etc, stasis in the abdomen, etc.

In addition, adding a small amount of cinnamon to medicines (e.g. Ginseng Nourishing Glory Pills, Shiquan Dajian Soup, etc.) for people who have been sick for a long time and suffer from dizziness due to insufficiency of qi and blood, less qi and laziness, lack of energy and self-sweating, pale or yellowish complexion, and palpitations and insomnia, can obtain the effect of encouraging the growth of qi and blood.

Fourth, there are several categories of people are not suitable for cinnamon

Cinnamon is pungent and hot and tends to deplete yin and move blood, so that theContraindicated in cases of yin deficiency and fire exuberance, with actual heat, and blood-heat paranoia。Contraindicated for pregnant women。

Another reminder is that cinnamon in traditional Chinese medicine and cinnamon bark, which we normally use as a spice in cooking, are not the same thing, even though they are closer in appearance and have much the same effects. Cinnamon is a bit weaker in heat and power than cinnamon.

Cinnamon is an important medicine for dispersing cold, but also commonly used as a flavor, because of its common use, so it is necessary to understand the benefits of cinnamon on the body. Cinnamon is pungent, sweet and hot, and belongs to the liver, kidney and spleen meridians. Its main effects are to warm the menstruation and benefit the fire, dissipate cold and relieve pain, and promote water retention and swelling. Cinnamon sticks are thin and upwardly mobile, while cinnamon is thick and downwardly mobile and tonifies the kidneys. Therefore, whether as medicine or flavorings, often eat cinnamon has the following benefits:

1, the treatment of spleen and kidney yang deficiency of the limbs cold, cold and bad food, cold pain in the stomach and abdomen, edema, urinary incontinence, rheumatism and pain. Usually cold hands and feet, aggravated by cold, can not eat cold food, eat cold food on the belly pain and diarrhea, body heavy bone pain can often eat. Where qi and blood deficiency cold, hands and feet not warm or cold pain in the waist and legs and other certificates, often used in conjunction with appendicitis.

2, cinnamon guard and not go, into the blood, can lead the fire back to the source, the treatment of false fire on the inflammation of the mouth sores and the lack of kidney qi of coughing and asthma, lumbar and knee pain, urination and so on.

3, cinnamon can warm Ying blood, and help the effect of growth of qi and blood, in the treatment of female gas stagnation blood cold, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea commonly used to warm the cold.

4, cinnamon can be used internally or externally to treat the liver and kidney deficiency, cold condensation of the blood of cold sores.

5, cinnamon is hot, the main cold, can be used for cold pain in the heart and abdomen, cold hernia pain.

For the usual Yang deficiency cold people, often eat cinnamon can play a role in warming the cold, in addition to the medicinal use, usually fried vegetables or boiled meat can be put a little bit, the cold like obvious can also be studied and swallowed.

Although eating cinnamon has many benefits, but is not a cold body, there is a deficiency of yin and hyperactivity or blood heat evidence and pregnant women should be avoided.