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Pin Yin: rou gui
Common name: cinnamon tree bark
Botanical family: Lauraceae
Botanical name: Cinnamomum cassia Presl.
Primary action: Warm Interior
Secondary actions:
Supplement Yang
Temperature: hot
Taste: acrid, sweet
Entering Channel: Kd, Sp, Lv, UB
Actions:
Warms Kidneys and Supplements Yang; for Kidney Yang Vacuity with pain
and cold of lower back and legs, impotence, seminal emission.
Warms Middle and disperses Cold; for Vacuity Cold of Middle Burner
with epigastric and abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Warms the Channels, promotes menstruation, and alleviates pain; used
for Cold Blood dysmenorrhea and for chronic sores that do not heal.
Guides the true Fire back to the Kidneys; for Collapse of Yang with True
Cold and False Heat.
(See
Kidney Yang Vacuity
;
Spleen Yang Vacuity
;
Stomach Vacuity Cold
;
Collapse of Yang
.)
Dosage:
0.3-1.0 qian.
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