Rou Gui
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Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: cinnamon bark, cassia bark
Pharmacuetical Name: Cortex Cinnamomi
Properties: acrid, sweet, hot
Temperature: hot
Channels: SP, HT, KD, LV
Flavors: sweet, pungent
Tonifies: yang
Special Properties:
disperses cold, alleviates bi syndrome
Actions / Indications:
- Warms the KD; assists yang; leads the fire back to its source
(KD Yang deficiency and waning of gate vitality: aversion to cold, cold
limbs, weak back, impotence, frequent urination, primary herb for upward
floating of deficient yang: asthma, wheezing, flushed face, severe oily
sweat, weak and cold lower limbs, pulse without root)
- Warms the SP; expels cold; relieves pain (epigastric
and abdominal coldness, SP yang deficiency with abdominal pain and cold,
reduced appetite, vomiting, diarrhea)
- Expels cold from the channels; Relieves pain (blood
level cold causing qi or blood stagnation, amenorrhea or dysmenorrhea;
post-partum pain, hypochondriac pain, damp-cold; yin-type boils chronic
abcesses and sores; also used for qi and blood deficiency)
- (cc: pregnancy)
- (cc: yin deficiency with heat signs)
- (cc: interior excess heat)
- (cc: reckless movement of hot blood)
- note: antagonizes chi shi zhi
Special Notes:
- Rou Gui and Gan Jiang are both interior
warming herbs, but have different functions. Rou Gui goes to the lower
jiao to tonify KD yang, while Gan jiang warms the middle jiao and disperses
cold from the SP and ST.
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