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Thin cinnamon bark

桂皮 〔桂皮〕guì pí

Latin pharmacognostic name: Cinnamomi Cortex Tenuis

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in PRC Pharmacopoeia: Cinnamomum cassia Presl. (PRC Pharmacopoeia)

Origin (other sources): Cinnamomum japonicum Sieb.; Cinnamomum japonicum Sieb.; Cinnamomum burmannii (Nees) Bl.; Cinnamomum chingii Metcalf; Cinnamomum wilsonii Gamble; Cinnamomum tamala (Ham.) Nees et Eberm.

Use: Medicinal

Category:

Properties: Acrid; warm.

Channel entry: Heart, liver, spleen, and kidney channels.*

Indications:

Warms the spleen and stomach, disperses wind-damp, frees the blood vessels.

cold in the abdomen; fullness in the chest; vomiting and retching; dysphagia-occlusion (yē gé); wind-damp impediment (fēng shī bì) pain; injury from knocks and falls and stasis; blood dysentery; intestinal wind.

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