Category
Warm Interior
Pin Yin
Latin Name
Cinnamomi Cortex
English Name
Cinnamon
Dosage
1.5-4.5g
Entering Channels
HT
Flavor
acrid
Temperature
hot
Pregnancy
Pregnancy - Caution
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Chinese Herbal Formulas (Comprehensive List)
Individual Essential Oils
Kampo Name
Kampo Number
Kanji
Katakana
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Key Characteristics:
Cautions & Contraindications:
- Use with caution when there is blazing fire from yin deficiency, excessive heat in the interior, or during pregnancy.
Actions & Indications:
- Fortifies the Kidney and Spleen yang, warms the Heart yang and fortifies the yang: for a wide variety of problems due to insufficiency of Kidney yang and waning of the gate of vitality. Common manifestations include aversion to cold, cold limbs, weak back, impotence, and urinary frequency. Also for waning of the Spleen and Kidney yang with abdominal pain and cold, reduced appetite, and diarrhea. It is also important for wheezing due to the failure of the Kidneys to grasp the qi. In addition, an important herb for warming the Heart yang, particularly when deficiency of Heart yang is the etiology of chest painful obstruction.
- Disperses deep cold, warms the channels, unblocks the channels and vessels, and alleviates pain: for deep cold causing qi stagnation or blood stasis. Associated problems include cold in the blood causing amenorrhea, cold-damp painful obstruction, yin-type boils, and sores or abscesses that do not heal. It enters the blood aspect and is often used in small amounts to enhance the blood-moving action of other substances.
- Leads the fire back to its source: the principal herb for treating the upward-floating of deficient yang. Manifestations include flushed face, wheezing, severe sweating, weak and cold lower extremities, and a deficient and rootless pulse. This pattern is called false heat and true cold, or heat above and cold below. Also used for other conditions where the upper part of the body is hot and the lower part is cold.
- Encourages the generation of qi and blood: with qi and blood tonics as an auxiliary herb for chronic deficiency of qi and blood.
