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Cinnamon Bark (Cassia) 肉桂
Ròu Guì · Cinnamomum cassia (Cortex)
Warm the Channels 温经- Nature
- Hot 大热
- Flavour
- Pungent, sweet 辛、甘
- Channels
- Kidney, Spleen, Heart, Liver 肾·脾·心·肝
- Part used
- Trunk/branch bark
- Species
- Cinnamomum cassia Presl
- Origin
- Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan
Traditional actions
Warms and tonifies Kidney yang, disperses deep cold and stops pain, warms the channels and unblocks the vessels, guides fire back to its source.
Traditionally used for
Cold limbs, weak cold lower back, cold-type abdominal/period pain, poor circulation from cold.