| drug name | Cassia Bark |
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| alias | Cassia Bark |
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This product is the bark of Cassia Bark (Cinnamomum cassia Presl), an evergreen tree plant of the Lauraceae family. Mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan and other places. It is usually peeled off in autumn, scraped off the cork and dried in the shade. It is processed into various specifications due to different peeling parts and quality. Common ones include Qibiangui, Bangui, Youbangui, Guitong, etc. For raw use.
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Evergreen tree, 12-17m high. The bark is grey-brown, and the old bark is up to 13mm thick. The annual branches are cylindrical and dark brown. The current-year branches are somewhat quadrangular and densely covered with short yellowish-brown hairs. The terminal buds are small and densely covered with grayish-yellow hairs. Leaves are alternate or nearly opposite, oblong to nearly lanceolate, 8 to 16 (~34) cm long, 4 to 5 (~9.5) cm wide, slightly acute at the apex, acute at the base, leathery, and cartilage at the edges. Texture, involute, green, glossy, hairless above, light green below, sparsely covered with short yellow hairs, three veins from the base, lateral veins nearly opposite, transverse veins nearly parallel; petiole is thick, covered with short yellow hairs. The panicle is axillary or nearly terminal, 8 to 16cm long, with three-level branches, and a three-flowered cyme at the end of the branch; the inner and outer sides of the perianth are densely covered with short yellowish-brown hairs, the perianth tube is inverted conical, and the lobes are ovate. Oblong; 9 fertile stamens, the filaments are pubescent, the 4 chambers of the first and second whorls of stamens are all inward-facing, the upper 2 chambers are smaller, the third whorl of stamens has a pair of round kidney-shaped ones 1/3 above the filaments The gland has 4 chambers, the upper 2 chambers are small, the outer ones are oriented, the lower 2 chambers are oriented, the inner whorl is 3 staminodes, and the apex is arrow-shaped and triangular; the ovary is ovoid, hairless, the style is slender, and the stigma is small. The berry drupe is oval, black and purple when mature; the fruit base is shallow cup-shaped, with truncate or slightly toothed edges. The flowering period is from June to August, and the fruiting period is from October to December.
Acrid and sweet, hot. act on spleen, kidney, heart and liver channels.
tonifying fire and assisting yang, dissipating cold to relieve pain, warming the meridians and unblocking the meridians.
- Used for kidney yang, weak impotence, uterine cold, deficiency-type dyspnea palpitation, etc. This product is sweet and hot, supports yang and replenishes fire, and is an important medicine for treating life gate fire failure. It is commonly used to treat kidney deficiency, life gate fire deficiency, uterine coldness, waist and knee cold pain, frequent nocturia, spontaneous seminal emission enuresis, etc. It is often used with Aconite Lateral Root and Prepared Rehmannia Root and cornus can be used, such as Kidney Qi Pill and Right-Restoring Decoction. If you want to treat those with yang deficiency, red face, deficiency-type dyspnea, sweating, palpitation, insomnia, and weak pulse, you can use this product to return fire to its origin, often with Asiatic Cornelian Cherry Fruit , Schisandra Fruit, Ginseng, oyster shell etc. can be used.
- It is used for cold carbuncle, cold abdominal colic pain, etc. This product is sweet and hot to support yang to replenish deficiency, and pungent and hot to dispel cold to relieve pain. To treat cold pain caused by internal invasion of cold evil or deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach, it can be used alone to grind it into powder and drink it decocted with wine, or combined with Dried Ginger or Lesser Galangal Rhizome , long pepper are equivalent. Treat spleen-kidney yang deficiency with abdominal abscesses, cold limbs, loose stools, and diarrhea. It is often used with Aconite Lateral Root, Ginseng, and Dried Ginger. is used equivalently, such as Guifu Middle-Regulating Pill . To treat cold abdominal colic abdominal pain, it is often used synonymously with Evodia Fruit and Fennel.
- Used for agonizing arthralgia lumbago, chest impediment, and gangrene. Benxin Powder is a lukewarm medicine that can pass moving qi blood Jingmai and dissipating cold to relieve pain. This product is commonly used to treat wind-cold-dampness impediment, especially agonizing arthralgia lumbago, and is often used with Pubescent Angelica, Chinese Taxillus Herb, Eucommia Bark is equivalent to Pubescent Angelica and Taxillus Decoction. To treat chest impediment due to weak chest yang and internal invasion of cold evil, it can be used equally with Aconite Lateral Root, Dried Ginger, and Pricklyash Peel . To treat yang deficiency and cold-coagulated yin gangrene, this product can also be used with sweet heat to boost yang to replenish deficiency, and pungent heat to dispel cold to unblock the meridians. It can be used with Cervi Deer-Horn Glue and Blast -Fried Ginger, Ephedra and the like can be used, such as Yang-Harmonizing Decoction.
- For amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal. This product has strong pungent and warming properties, and is great at warming the meridians and unblocking the meridians. Therefore, it can be used to treat amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal and other syndromes such as Chong Ren deficiency and cold, cold coagulation and blood stagnation. It can be used with Chinese Angelica and Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Fennel and the like can be used, such as Lesser Abdomen Stasis-Expelling Decoction.
- In addition, for those who have been ill for a long time and have insufficient Qi and blood, Cassia Bark can be added to the tonifying qi prescription to encourage the growth of Qi and blood.
- Bielu: "Mainly warming the middle, benefiting the liver, lung qi, coldness in the heart and stomach, cold disease, cholera spasm, headache, lumbago, sweating, relieving annoyance, relieving saliva, cough, Nose, can prevent early abortion, strengthen joints, clear blood vessels, and treat insufficient spasm. It promotes hundreds of medicines." Cold, nutrient-defense wind-cold, yang deficiency spontaneous sweating, cold pain in the abdomen, cough and qi condensation, spleen deficiency, aversion to food, dampness and diarrhea, blocked blood vessels, insufficient placenta, red eye swelling and pain, stagnation due to cold If you get it, it will be cured without any effect."
Decoction, 2-5g, should be decocted later or taken topically; grind into powder, take infused, 1-2g each time.
Fear of red halloysite.
This product contains volatile oil, called cassia bark oil or Cassia Bark oil. The main components in the oil are cassia bark aldehyde, cassia bark acetate, phenylpropyl acetate, etc. In addition, it also contains mucus, tannin, etc.
- This product can dilate blood vessels, promote blood circulation, increase coronary and cerebral blood flow, and reduce vascular resistance. In vitro, its methanol extract and cassia bark aldehyde have anti-platelet aggregation and anti-thrombin effects.
- cassia bark oil, cassia bark aldehyde, and sodium cassia bark acid have sedative, analgesic, antipyretic, and anticonvulsant effects.
- cassia bark oil has a relaxing stimulating effect on the gastric mucosal membrane, and reflexively promotes gastric function by stimulating the sense of smell. It can promote intestinal motility, increase digestive tract secretion, enhance digestive function, eliminate gas accumulation in the digestive tract, and relieve gastric cancer. Intestinal spasmodic pain.
- cassia bark oil can cause congestion in the uterus.
- cassia bark oil has inhibitory effects on Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The ether, alcohol and water extracts of cassia bark have certain inhibitory effects on a variety of nature-of-disease-causing fungi.
