The properties are pungent, sweet and warm. It enters the heart, lung and bladder meridians.
Effects and Indications
1. Dispersing cold and relieving symptoms of wind-cold, cold and fever, headache, no sweating, often used in conjunction with ephedra to enhance sweating, such as ephedra soup. It is used to treat the deficiency of wind-cold symptom, malignant cold and fever, with sweating, often paired with white peony, which can harmonize Ying and Wei and have the effect of stopping sweating, such as Gui Zhi Tang.
2. It is used to treat wind-cold and dampness paralysis, shoulder and back limb pain, and is often combined with Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori (Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori), which is used in the form of Gui Zhi Zizi Soup. It is used to treat cold blood stagnation, menstrual closure, dysmenorrhea, menstrual irregularities, and often used with Angelica sinensis, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Dampy, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Paeoniae Lactiflorae, formula such as warm menstruation soup. If the heart yang deficiency, palpitation, shortness of breath, pulse knot generation, can be combined with roasted licorice, ginseng, gum, etc., formula such as roasted licorice soup.
3. It is used to treat phlegm, cough, dizziness, dizziness, palpitation caused by Yang deficiency of heart and spleen and water-dampness, and is often combined with Poria, Atractylodes macrocephala, and licorice, such as Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang. If the bladder water retention, edema, urination is unfavorable, often with poria, atractylodes, zedoary used together, such as the five ling san.
4. Warming the middle and replenishing the deficiency with the treatment of spleen and stomach cold, stomach and epigastric pain, like to get warm press, pain relief after meals, often used with white peony, caramel, such as small Jianzhong Tang.
The dosage is 3 to 10 grams, with the treatment of wind-cold damp paralysis available 15 to 30 grams, but must be used with caution. It should be taken with water. Gui Zhi is strong in sweating and detoxification of muscles in raw form, and better in honey-roasted form to help heart yang, warming the middle and nourishing the deficiency, and it is effective in treating wind-cold-dampness paralysis at the same time.
Contraindications: Avoid using it for those with warm-heat disease, yin deficiency and fire exuberance, blood heat, pregnant women and those with excessive menstruation.
According to Gui Zhi, it is pungent and warm, traveling outward on the surface, specializing in dispersing wind and cold on the surface of the muscle, and going across the limbs, and is good at passing through the meridians and joints. By its warming effect, in order to achieve the effect of blood circulation and menstruation, dispersal of cold pain. Therefore, it is commonly used for external wind-cold, wind-cold and dampness paralysis, menstrual closure, dysmenorrhea and other evidence. Because of its sweating effect is more moderate, therefore, wind-cold surface evidence, regardless of sweat, no sweat can be used, especially for the weakness of the cold, shoulder and arm pain in the upper limbs and other evidence is more appropriate.
Types of drugs to identify cinnamon sticks and ephedra can sweat, but ephedra Xin open bitter discharge, can open the coupling and penetrate the hair orifices, sweating effect is stronger, and can be declared lung asthma, diuretic swelling; cinnamon sticks Xin sweet and warm, the main function of the warm through the meridians, can pass the yang and the surface, the sweating effect of the weaker and more slowly, so the treatment of wind-cold episodes of cold, cold and no sweating, often with the combination of ephedra in order to enhance the role of its sweating; the treatment of cold and wind, sweating and bad wind, is not matched with a cold, cold and sweaty, but the treatment of cold and wind, the episodes, the cold and sweat. The treatment of wind-cold episodes, sweating and malignant wind, is not equipped with ephedra, but with peony, in order to coordinate the Ying and Wei, published to disperse cold.