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Japanese Cinnamon
Japanese Cinnamon. Properties: Acrid
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Gui Pi
中文名 (Chinese)
桂皮
Latin Name
Cortex Cinnamomi Japonici; Cortex Cinnamomi Burmannii; Cortex Cinnamomi Wilsonii
English Name
Japanese Cinnamon
Alias Names
山肉桂土肉桂土桂山玉桂山桂皮
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Acrid
Part Used
Bark
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To warm spleen and stomach, warm liver and kidney, dispel cold and relieve pain, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Indication (主治)
Cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, aching cold in lumbus and knees, cold mounting with abdominal pain, cold-damp impediment pain, dysmenorrhea, blood dysentery, intestinal wind, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
🔗 External References
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