Effects and functions: sweating and relieving symptoms, dispersing cold and relieving pain, and promoting Yang and vaporizing Qi.

Treatments: for wind-cold cold, cold and blood stagnation pain, phlegm, water retention, palpitations.

Gui Zhi is warm and pungent, easy to move the yin and blood, all external heat disease, yin deficiency and fire, blood heat, etc., should be avoided. Pregnant women and excessive menstruation should be cautious.

Guizhi is mainly produced in Guangxi, Guangdong and Yunnan. Spring and summer cut off the shoots, sun-dried or shade-dried, cut into thin slices or small segments with. Pungent, sweet, warm. Attributed to the heart, lung and bladder meridians.

Expanded Information

Traits of Gui Zhi: This product is long cylindrical, multi-branched, 30--75cm long, the thick end of the diameter of 0.3--1cm. the surface is reddish brown to brown, with longitudinal ribs, fine lines, and a fine line. The surface is reddish brown to brown, with longitudinal ribs, fine wrinkles and small pimple-like leaf scars, branch scars, bud scars, lenticels dotted. Hard and brittle, easy to break. The slices are 2--4mm thick, the section is reddish brown in the skin part, yellowish white to light yellowish brown in the wood part, and the pith part is slightly square. There is a special aroma, taste sweet, slightly pungent, the skin part of the stronger flavor.

Cinnamon sticks this product is a class of round, oval-shaped pieces or irregularly shaped segments. The cortex is reddish brown, and punctate lenticels or longitudinal ribs are sometimes seen on the surface, the wood is yellowish white or light yellowish brown, and the pith is classified as round or slightly square.

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