Abstract: Guizhi is a common traditional Chinese medicine, mainly produced in Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and other places with hot and humid climate in my country. Guizhi has many functions and effects. In addition to promoting sweating, relieving muscles, and warming painful meridians, it can also help yang transform qi and calm down qi. Therefore, cassia twig is often used to treat diseases such as colds and colds. What's the best way to boil Guizhi? Guizhi can be used to make soups such as Astragalus Guizhi Wuwu Decoction, Bupleurum Guizhi Ginger Decoction, Guizhi Peony Anemarrhena Decoction, etc., which can help us effectively absorb the medicinal properties of cassia twigs. Next, let’s learn about the recipe of Guizhi! 1. Astragalus and Guizhi Wuwu Decoction

Ingredients: 15 grams of astragalus; 12 grams of cassia twigs; 12 grams of peony; 25 grams of ginger; 4 jujubes.

Method: Decoction in water and take warmly in three servings (common adult dose: 3 doses).

Efficacy: Blood paralysis due to weak Yingwei. The skin is numb, or the limbs and joints are painful, or sweating is bad, the tongue is pale and the coating is white, and the pulse is slightly astringent and tight.

2. Bupleurum, Guizhi and Dried Ginger Decoction

Ingredients: Bupleurum; Guizhi; Dried ginger; Trichosanthes kirilowii root; Scutellaria baicalensis; oyster (boiled); Zhigancao.

Method: Boil 1200 ml with 2400 ml of water, drain, and then decoct 600 ml. Take 200 ml warmly, three times a day. After taking it for the first time, I felt slightly irritated, but after taking it again, the sweating and constipation were relieved.

Efficacy: harmonizes and dispels cold, promotes fluid production and restrains yin. It is used for symptoms such as cold and heat, fullness and slight knotting in the chest and hypochondrium, but sweating in the head, difficulty in urination, thirst without vomiting, upset, or loose stools.

3. Guizhi, Peony and Zhimu Decoction

Ingredients: 12 grams of cinnamon twig; 9 grams of peony; 6 grams of licorice; 12 grams of ephedra; 15 grams of ginger; 15 grams of atractylodes; 12 grams of mother; 12 grams of Fangfeng; 10 grams of monkshood (cannon).

Method: Take the nine flavors, boil 210 ml with 700 ml of water, take 70 ml warmly each time, three times a day.

Efficacy: dispel wind and dampness, relieve yang and dispel cold, and clear away heat. It is mainly used to treat patients with pain in various limbs and joints, weak body, swollen feet, dizziness, shortness of breath, and warm and vomiting symptoms ("Synopsis of the Golden Chamber").

4. Guizhi Aconite Decoction

Ingredients: three qian of Guizhi; Aconite (gun); three peeled navel; two qian of licorice.

Method: Make one serving, add two minutes of water, three slices of ginger, fry for one hour, take at any time. The living book contains peony and jujube.

Efficacy: dispelling wind and dampness, warming the meridians and dispersing cold. Treat typhoid fever for eight or nine days, with rheumatism and rheumatism fighting each other, body pain and discomfort, inability to turn on one side, no vomiting or thirst, and a floating, weak and astringent pulse. It is now used for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica and other diseases caused by wind, cold and dampness.

5. Guizhi and Licorice Decoction

Ingredients: 4 liang of cinnamon twig (peeled) (12g), 2 liang of licorice (broiled) (6g).

Method: Boil three liters (600ml) of water to make one liter (200ml), remove the water and take it immediately.

Efficacy: Supplements heart yang, generates yang and transforms qi. It is mainly used to treat excessive sweating, when the person crosses his hands and feels anxious, palpitating in the heart, and wants to be massaged.

6. Guizhi plus keel and oyster soup

Ingredients: 9 grams each of cinnamon twig, peony, and ginger; 6 grams of licorice; 12 jujubes; 9 grams each of keel and oyster.

Method: Take the seven flavors, boil 300 ml with 700 ml of water, and drink warmly in three times.

Efficacy: Tonify yin and yang, subdue and stabilize the body. Treats asthenia and yin and yang deficiency, night dreams and spermatorrhea, tightness in the lower abdomen, coldness in the vagina, dizziness and hair loss, extremely weak and slow pulse, or slightly tight pulse movements; it can also treat deficiency and coldness in the lower Jiao, tightness in the lower abdomen, and palpitations below the navel. Symptoms of enuresis.

7. Guizhi plus Pueraria lobata decoction

Ingredients: Pueraria lobata, white peony, cassia twig, ginger, and licorice.

Method: decoct in water and take.

Efficacy: Relieves muscles, promotes body fluids and relaxes muscles. Mainly used to treat wind-cold caused by loss of the Taiyang meridian, resulting from disharmony between the Ying and the Wei, causing fever and wind, sweating, and discomfort in the nape and back.