Cinnamon branch, alias: willow cinnamon *** scientific name: Cinnamomum cassia Presl *** for the camphor plant cinnamon Cinnamomum cassia Presl dry shoots. Harvested in the spring and summer seasons, remove the leaves, dry in the sun, or sliced and dried, this product is long cylindrical, multi-branched, 30-75cm long, the diameter of the thick end of 0.3-1cm. The following is the efficacy and role of cinnamon branches, I hope to help you oh.
Effects and functions of cinnamon sticks
Dispersing cold and relieving symptoms
Treatment of wind-cold cold caused by cold, runny cough and other diseases has a very good effect.
Warming the meridians
It can also treat wind-cold episodes, shoulder and back limb pain, frozen shoulder, rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis.
Transmits Yang and transforms Qi
It can also treat Qi stagnation and blood clotting caused by Yang deficiency, cold pain in the epigastric region, and menstrual closure due to blood cold.
Wind-cold episodes
Paralyzing pain in cold and dampness; cold extremities, phlegm-drinking, edema, palpitations, running dolphins and other conditions.
Liver protection and sobriety
Guizhouzhi also has a role in alcoholic cirrhosis, reducing the direct damage to the liver of alcohol intermediate metabolite acetaldehyde. It can also inhibit hepatocyte degeneration, necrosis, and promote hepatocyte regeneration.
Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory
Cinnamon sticks alcohol extract in vitro can inhibit Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus, the effective concentration of 25 mg / ml or less; on Staphylococcus albicans, Shigella dysentery bacillus, typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever A bacillus, pneumococcus, pneumococcus, Aspergillus, anthrax bacilli, Salmonella enteritidis, Vibrio cholera, etc., but also has an inhibitory effect.
Medicinal value of cinnamon sticks
The Chinese medicine cinnamon sticks is the dried shoots of cinnamon, usually harvested in the spring and summer seasons, after removing the leaves, direct sun-drying or slicing and drying can be. Cinnamon sticks are pungent and warm, which can dispel wind and cold, and can treat colds and wind-cold, fever and malignant cold. [5]
It is pungent, sweet, warm, into the lung, heart, bladder meridian, is the main treatment of cold commonly used warming medicine, has the effect of replenishing the yuan-yang, through the blood, warming the spleen and stomach, often with the complementary medicine of the liver and kidneys, qi and blood medicines, treatment of kidney yang insufficiency, the vitality of the fire failure, the limbs are cold and pulse micro, and with the other warming medicine for the treatment of the epigastric and abdominal cold, cold paralysis and lumbago, with a clear analgesic and anticancer and anticancer effects. Existing wind-repellent oil drugs such as cool oil, rheumatism oil, etc. all contain cinnamon oil components.
Main function: Gui Zhi can sweat and relieve muscle, warm the meridians and pass the veins, help Yang Qi, dispel cold and relieve pain. Main wind-cold symptoms; cold and dampness paralysis; cold extremities; menstrual pain; obstruction in the abdomen; chest paralysis; palpitation; phlegm; urinary incontinence. It is used in treating cold and flu, cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, menstrual obstruction due to cold blood, paralytic pain in the joints, phlegm-drinking, edema, palpitation and urinary incontinence. Usage and dosage: 3-9 grams. [6] The main ingredient of phenylpropanoid alum, which is used to treat leprosy, is cinnamon oil, and other by-products of cinnamon, such as cinnamon sticks, cinnamon seeds, cinnamon dices, cinnamon cups, etc., have different pharmacological effects and are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. [4]
Common Functions: 1. Wind-cold flu. This product is pungent, sweet and warm, sweet and warm through the Yang Fu Wei, its open coupling sweating force is milder than ephedra, and good at declaring yang qi in the Wei, smooth camp blood in the muscle surface, so it helps Wei solid surface, sweating to relieve muscle, external dispersion of wind-cold function. For external wind-cold, regardless of the surface of the real no sweat, the surface of the virtual sweat and Yang deficiency cold, are appropriate to use. Such as the treatment of external wind-cold, table solid without sweating, often used with ephedra, to open the lung gas, dispersal of wind-cold, such as ephedra soup *** "typhoid fever" ***; if the external wind-cold, the table virtual sweating, with white peony, in order to reconcile the Ying and Wei, sweating muscle, such as Gui Zhi Tang *** "typhoid fever" ***; if the body of yang deficiency, wind-cold, every with ephedra, epimedium, xinshen, in order to dispersal of wind-cold, warming and supporting yang qi.
Morphological Characteristics of Cinnamon Branch
Medium-sized tree; bark gray-brown, the old bark is up to 13mm thick.
Annual branches terete, black-brown, longitudinally finely striated, slightly pubescent, the current year's branches more or less four-angled, yellowish-brown, longitudinally finely striated, densely grayish-yellow pubescence.
The terminal buds are small, bud scales broadly ovate, apex acuminate, densely gray-yellow downy.
Leaves alternate or subopposite, long elliptic to sublanceolate, apex slightly acute, base acute, leathery, margin cartilaginous, involute, green, glossy and glabrous above, light green and obscure below, sparsely yellowish downy, triple-veined away from the base, lateral veins subopposite, arising from the base of the leaf from 5-10 mm, slightly curved upward to reach below the leaf tip where they fade away, and with the midrib distinctly concave above and very raised below. Very convex, to the side of the leaf margin has most of the tertiary veins, tertiary veins in the leaf margin within the arch-shaped connection, transverse veins wave-like, subparallel, 3~4mm apart, the upper is not obvious, the lower is convex, which by the veinlets connecting the line, veinlets in the lower is clearly visible; petiole is stout, 1.2~2cm long, ventral surface is flat or the lower part of the slightly grooved, covered with yellow downy hairs.
Panicles axillary or subterminal, 8-16cm long, tertiary branched, branches ending in 3-flowered cymes, the pedicels about half the length of the inflorescences, with all levels of the inflorescence axis yellow tomentose.
Flowers white, about 4.5mm long; pedicel 3~6mm long, yellow-brown downy. The perianth is densely yellow-brown tomentose on both inner and outer surfaces, the perianth tube is obconical, ca. 2mm, the perianth lobes are ovate-oblong, subequal, ca. 2.5mm long, 1.5mm wide, the apex is obtuse or subacute.
Fertile stamens 9, filaments pilose, first and second round of stamens ca. 2.3mm long, filaments flattened, ca. 1.4mm long, widening in upper 1/3, anthers ovoid-oblong, ca. 0.9mm long, truncated at apex, anther locules 4, locules all introrse, upper 2 locules much smaller, third round of stamens ca. 2.7mm long, filaments flattened, ca. 1.9mm long, with pair of upper 1/3 rounded kidney-shaped glands, anthers ovoid-oblong, locules 4, upper 2 smaller, laterally oriented, lower 2 larger, externally oriented.
Staminodes 3, in innermost whorl, with stipe ca. 2mm long, stalk slender, flattened, 1.3mm long, pilose, apex sagittate-deltoid.
Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.7mm long, glabrous, style slender, as long as the ovary, stigma small, inconspicuous. Fruit ellipsoid, ca. 1cm long, 7-8***9***mm wide, black-purple at maturity, glabrous; fruiting receptacle shallowly cupular, 4mm long, up to 7mm wide at the tip, with truncated or slightly toothed margins.
Flowering June to August, fruiting October to December.