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🌿 Herb

Cassia Twig

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Clinical Trials
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Meta-Analyses
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PubMed References
📋 Sample Trials
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📚 Sample References
PMID 34673348
Cardioprotective activity of ethyl acetate extract of Cinnamomi Ramulus against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats via inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome activation and pyroptosis
Phytomedicine · 2021
🌿 All Herb data fields for Cassia Twig
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Gui Zhi
中文名 (Chinese)
桂枝
Latin Name
Cinnamomi Ramulus; Ramulus Cinnamomi
English Name
Cassia Twig
Alias Names
柳桂
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Pungent; Sweet; Warm
Meridians (归经)
Heart; Lung; Bladder
Part Used
Twig
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Pungent-Warm Exterior-Releasing Medicinal
功效分类 (CN)
辛温解表药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To induce perspiration, to warm the channels and stimulate menstrual discharge, to reinforce yang, to relieve palpitation, and to promote the descending of qi.
Indication (主治)
Wind-cold exterior syndrome, cold-damp impediment pain, reversal cold of limbs, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, concretion and conglomeration, chest impediment, palpitation, phlegm-rheum, inhibited urination.
Clinical Manifestations
1. sedative , analgesic and anticonvulsive: intraperitoneal injection of cinnamic aldehyde relieves pain elicited by acetic acid in mice and antagonizes strychnine-induced tonic convulsion (500mg/kg).2. antipyretic: lowering vaccine-induced fever in rabbi
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SymMap
TCMID
3977
TCMSP
155
TCM-ID
761
🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (31 fields)
name
Cassia Twig
chinese name
桂枝
pinyin name
Gui Zhi
latin name
Cinnamomi Ramulus; Ramulus Cinnamomi
english name
Cassia Twig
properties english
Pungent; Sweet; Warm
meridians english
Heart; Lung; Bladder
use part
Twig
symmap herb id
155
tcmid id
3977
tcmsp id
155
herb id str
HERB002062
function text
To induce perspiration, to warm the channels and stimulate menstrual discharge, to reinforce yang, to relieve palpitation, and to promote the descending of qi.
indication
Wind-cold exterior syndrome, cold-damp impediment pain, reversal cold of limbs, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, concretion and conglomeration, chest impediment, palpitation, phlegm-rheum, inhibited urination.
clinical manifestations
1. sedative , analgesic and anticonvulsive: intraperitoneal injection of cinnamic aldehyde relieves pain elicited by acetic acid in mice and antagonizes strychnine-induced tonic convulsion (500mg/kg).2. antipyretic: lowering vaccine-induced fever in rabbi
therapeutic en class
Pungent-Warm Exterior-Releasing Medicinal
therapeutic cn class
辛温解表药
tcm id id
761
alias name
柳桂
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