大树玉桂 / 肉桂丝 This is sliced cinnamon, can be used to make tea or bake. 为樟科植物肉桂的干皮及枝皮。 性味 辛甘，热。 经脉 入肾经、脾经，膀胱经。 主治 补元阳，暖脾胃，除积冷，通血脉。治命门火衰，肢冷脉微，亡阳虚脱，腹痛泄泻，寒疝奔豚，腰膝冷痛，经闭癥瘕，阴疽，流注，及虚阳浮越，上热下寒。 注意禁忌 阴虚火旺忌服，孕妇慎服。 【食疗方】 山楂肉桂汤 山楂15g，肉桂6g，红糖25g。山楂与肉桂加水共煎，去渣，加红糖稍煎即得。 用于血寒性月经后延，面色苍白等症。肉桂能温肾壮阳，温通经脉，活血行瘀，祛寒止痛。红糖和中散寒，温经活血，三者对血寒型月经错后效果显著。 Rou Gui / Cinnamon Slice / Cassia Bark (4oz) Some people use it for erectile dysfunction (ED), hernia, bed-wetting, joint pain, menopausal symptoms, menstrual problems, and to cause abortions. Cassia cinnamon is also used for chest pain, kidney disorders, high blood pressure, cramps, and cancer. People apply cassia cinnamon to the skin to repel mosquitoes. From the manufacturer: This is sliced cinnamon that can be used to make tea or baked. It is the dried bark and branch bark of Lauraceae cinnamon. The taste is spicy hot. It enters the Kidney, Spleen, and Bladder meridians. Indications: for replenishing Yuanyang, warming the spleen and stomach, removing cold accumulation, and clearing blood vessels. It has been used to cure “mingmen life-span fire failure,” cold limbs and weak pulse, collapsed yang, abdominal pain and diarrhea, cold hernia, cold pain in the waist and knees, amenorrhea, yin gangrene [slow healing, oozing wound], and floating yang, upper heat and lower cold [feeling as though feverish in the head but with cold lower body and extremities.] Cautions: Avoid taking with Yin-deficiency [fever, chronic thirst and hunger] Huowang, pregnant women should avoid it. Diet Therapy Hawthorn Cinnamon Soup Ingredients: Hawthorn 15g, cinnamon 6g, brown sugar 25g. Boil the hawthorn and cinnamon with water for 30 minutes, remove the herbs, add brown sugar and simmer for a while. It is used for “blood-cold menstrual delay” and pale complexion. [when menstruation is delayed due to chills, exposure to exogenous cold temperatures or chronic weakness with pallor. . . Also useful for cramps with sparse, pale menstrual flow.] Cinnamon can warm the kidney and strengthen yang, warm the meridians, promote blood circulation, reduce blood stasis, dispel cold and relieve pain. Brown sugar, dispells cold in the middle, warming menstruation and promoting blood circulation, the three have significant effects on menstrual problems of “blood-cold type.” Cautions: Avoid this tea during pregnancy
