The properties are pungent, sweet and hot. It enters the kidney, spleen, heart and liver meridians.

Effects and Indications

1. It is used for treating kidney and kidney yang deficiency, coldness of the lower element, lumbar and knee pain, long and clear urination or frequent urination, and is often accompanied by Radix Polygoni Multiflori (Radix Polygoni Multiflori), Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata (Radix Rehmanniae), Cornus Officinalis (Cornu Cervi Pills), and so on, for the treatment of kidney and spleen yang deficiency, coldness of the epigastric region, dyspepsia, and loose stools. For Yang deficiency and yin deficiency, upper deficiency and lower cold, face redness and sweating, palpitation and insomnia, this product can be used to induce fire to return to the source, and at the same time with Cornus officinalis, ginseng, schizandra, oysters, etc.

2.Dispersing cold and relieving pain is used for heart yang deficiency, chest paralysis and heart pain, often combined with Radix Polygoni Multiflori, Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae Praeparata, Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori, Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Pill, and is often combined with Dugong, Morinda Citrifolia, Eucommia Ulmoides, and so on. It is also used for cold hernia and lumbago, often combined with Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae Praeparata, Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori, and so on.

3.Warming the meridians for cold blood, menstrual cramps, menstrual pain, often with Angelica sinensis, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Yuanhu, etc., such as the abdomen and blood stasis soup; used for gangrene injection, white color, swelling, long time ulceration does not converge, often with gunpowder ginger, antlers and so on, such as the formula of the Yanghe Tang.

Additionally, in the case of low qi and blood, a small amount of cinnamon is often added to qi and blood medicines to warm yang qi and encourage the growth of qi and blood, such as Shiquan Daxin Tang and Ginseng Nourishing Rong Tang.

Dosage and usage 2~5 grams, into the soup should be after the next; powdered punch 1~2 grams each time, or into the pills.

Contraindications Yin deficiency and hyperactivity, bleeding and pregnant women are contraindicated.

According to cinnamon, pungent, sweet and hot, for the gas thick pure yang products, into the kidney can make up for the fire of the life of the door, there is a draw fire back to the source, the benefits of yang and eliminate the yin of the function, into the liver can be warmed through the meridians, blood circulation and blood stasis. The nature of the downward movement, and can lead the fire back to the source.

The identification of drugs cinnamon, epimedium can tonify the kidney yang, benefit the fire, often need to be used; but epimedium is rapid fire, go and do not keep, long in the warm, help the sun to get rid of the cold, in order to return to the yang to save reverse for life; cinnamon can go and can keep, the nature of the slower, long in the benefit of fire and eliminate the yin, lead the fire to return to the source, warm operation of the blood, and eliminate the sinking cold and relieve pain. Therefore, the evidence of the death of yang is appropriate to use the seeds, blood regulating and regulating menstruation is appropriate to use cinnamon.

Cinnamon, cinnamon sticks with the cinnamon tree, the two drugs can warm camp blood, help gasification, dispersal of cold condensation, but the cinnamon into the lower jiao, tonifying kidney yang, beneficial fire; cinnamon sticks main upward, warm meridians and channels, dispersal of surface cold.