Main components: containing volatile oil (cinnamon oil), in which the main components are cinnamaldehyde and cinnamic acid.
description: the outer surface is grayish brown, slightly rough, with irregular fine wrinkles and laterally protruding lenticels, and some can be seen with grayish white markings. The inner surface is reddish-brown, slightly flat, with fine longitudinal lines, marked with oil marks, hard and brittle, easy to break, uneven in section, brown and rough in outer layer, reddish-brown and oily in inner layer, and there is a yellow-brown line between the two layers. Strong fragrance, sweet and spicy taste.
Indications: 1. Sweating to relieve exterior syndrome is used for exterior syndrome of wind-cold cold. The main symptoms are aversion to cold, headache, fever and pulse floating. Ramulus Cinnamomi can penetrate the camp and guard, and disperse the wind-cold on the muscle surface, but its sweating effect is milder than that of Herba Ephedrae. When combined with Herba Ephedrae, it is more effective in sweating and dispelling cold. Ramulus Cinnamomi can be used for exterior syndrome of wind-cold cold without sweating, and also for exterior deficiency syndrome of exogenous wind-cold with juice.
2. Guizhi, which warms meridians and dispels cold, has the effects of warming and dredging meridians, expelling wind and dispelling cold, and relieving arthralgia, and can be used for limb and joint pain due to wind-cold-dampness arthralgia and meridian obstruction. For example, arthritis of limbs, which is caused by pathogenic wind, cold and dampness, can be treated with Guizhi prescription. 3. Warming blood vessels can be used for various syndromes of cold stagnation and poor blood circulation. If the extremities are cold, numb, sore and uncomfortable, it can be treated with Guizhi, Angelica sinensis and Asarum.
usage and dosage: decoction, .5-2 RMB; Or into the pill, scattered.
Medication for medical insurance: Medicare
OTC: Prescription
Others: 1. Excessive dosage may cause sweating, burnout, palpitation and other symptoms. It can also cause miscarriage.
2. Ramulus Cinnamomi is a pungent-warming and exterior-relieving drug, which may aggravate the condition if it is used to treat wind-heat cold. It is also inappropriate to use cassia twig for those with obvious swelling and heat pain in joint pain. In the treatment of dysmenorrhea, it should be ensured that cassia twig can be used only for patients with cold and blood stasis.