Ramulus Cinnamomi

(Tang materia medica)

Another name: Liu GUI.

[source] the twigs of Lauraceae. For plant morphology, please refer to "cinnamon".

[collection] from August to July, the young shoots were cut into 15 or 30-100 cm segments and dried in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried twigs are cylindrical, 15-100 cm long, 0.8-1 cm in diameter, and brownish red or purple brown in appearance. There are branch mark, leaf mark, bud mark, longitudinal edge line, longitudinal line and transverse line on the surface. It is hard and brittle, easy to break, and the section is not flat. It has a brown red edge on the outside and a dark color in the center. The section of thick branch is yellow white. It is fragrant, sweet and slightly pungent. Tender, brownish red and fragrant are preferred.

Mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[pharmacological action] 1

The ethanol extract of Ramulus Cinnamomi can inhibit Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus in vitro, and the effective concentration is 25 mg / ml or less; it can also inhibit Staphylococcus albus, Shigella dysentery, typhoid and paratyphoid A, pneumococcus, aerobacillus, proteus, anthrax, Salmonella enteritidis, Vibrio cholerae, etc. (plate digging method).

② Antiviral effect

The results showed that Guizhi Decoction (1:20) had inhibitory effect on Jingke 68-1 strain of influenza A and orphan virus (echo11) in primary monolayer epithelial cells of human embryonic kidney. On chicken embryo, it had inhibitory effect on influenza virus, and 70% alcohol extract had better effect.

③ Diuretic effect

The urine volume of anesthetized dogs can be significantly increased by intravenous injection of Wuling powder containing Guizhi (0.25 g / kg). The diuretic effect of intravenous injection of Guizhi (0.029 g / kg) alone is more significant than that of other four drugs alone. Therefore, it is considered that Guizhi is one of the main diuretic components in Wuling powder, and its mode of action may be like mercuric saride.

[processing] Ramulus Cinnamomi: soak it in water, pick it up, moisten it thoroughly, slice it, dry it in the air, and sift off the crumbs. Ramulus Cinnamomi: take the peeled Ramulus Cinnamomi, soak slightly, moisten thoroughly, slice and dry. Cinnamon Twig tip: take the twig tip of Cinnamon Twig, soak it slightly, moisten it thoroughly, slice it and dry it in the air. Stir fry Ramulus Cinnamomi: take Ramulus Cinnamomi slices into the pot, stir fry gently until dark yellow and slightly burnt.

Sweet and warm.

① "Qi is hot, taste is sweet. "

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Xin, Gan, Wen, non-toxic. "

[meridian tropism] entering bladder, heart and lung meridians.

① "Tang Ye Ben Cao": "enter the Taiyang Jing. "

② "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the lung meridian. "

③ "Drug Huayi": entering the liver, kidney and bladder. "

④ "Seeking truth from Materia Medica" says: "entering the skin, entering the heart and liver. "

[function indications] sweating and resolving muscle, warming meridians and dredging pulse. Treatment of wind cold exterior syndrome, shoulder back limb pain, chest obstruction, phlegm, menstrual obstruction.

① Cheng Wuji: "let go of the dolphin, harmonize the muscle surface, disperse the lower Jiao and store blood. "It's good for lung qi. "

② "Medical Qiyuan": "the secret of indications": to get rid of cold and headache, to open the theory, to solve the table, to skin rheumatism (the last two characters according to "herbal play" supplement). "

③ In the classic of materia medica: "the solid surface dispels evil. It is mainly beneficial to liver and lung qi, headache, rheumatism and arthralgia. "

④ "Medicine Hua Yi" says: "he specializes in the upper shoulder and arm, and can receive medicine to the pain, so as to remove the stagnation of phlegm and blood coagulation between the limb joints. "

⑤ "Materia medica preparation": warming meridians, dredging pulse, sweating and dissolving muscle. "

⑥ "Materia medica re new": "warming the blood circulation, invigorating the spleen and drying the stomach, detumescence and diuresis. It is used for the treatment of cold, numbness, muscle pain and cold. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5 ~ 2 Qian; or into pills, powder.

[should avoid] warm heat disease, yin deficiency and Yang excess syndrome, blood syndrome, pregnant women should not take it.

① "Materia Medica from the new": "for people with Yin deficiency, all blood syndromes should not be cast by mistake. "

② "Depei Materia Medica": "Yin deficiency and blood deficiency, always with blood syndrome, no cold evil outside, Yang Qi in excess, the four are forbidden. "

[prescription selection] ① for Taiyang apoplexy, Yang is floating but Yin is weak, Yang is floating, heat is spontaneous, Yin is weak, sweat is coming out, stingy and averse to cold, wind is gradually evil, heat is playing back and forth, nose is ringing and retching: three liang of cinnamon (peeled), three liang of peony (roasted), three Liang (cut), twelve pieces (broken). In the first five flavors, cut three flavors carefully, take seven liters of water, boil three liters over low heat, remove dross, suit cold and warm, take one liter; take it for a moment, absorb more than one liter of hot porridge, to help the drug's power, warm for a while, it will be better if you feel slightly sweating all over your body. (Guizhi Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

② For the treatment of typhoid fever on August 9, the patients with rheumatism, body pain, unable to turn their sides, no vomiting, no thirst, weak and astringent pulse: four liang of cinnamon twigs (peeled), three pieces (fried, peeled, broken), three liang of ginger (cut), twelve pieces of jujube (broken), and two liang of licorice (fried). On the five flavors, six liters of water, boiling two liters, to dross, three temperature service. (Guizhi Fuzi Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

③ Treatment of limb pain, physical weakness, swollen feet, dizziness, shortness of breath, warm and warm to vomit: four liang of Cinnamon Twig, three liang of peony, two liang of licorice, two liang of ginger, five Liang, four Liang, four Liang, one piece of aconite (gun). For the first nine flavors, take seven liters of water, boil two liters, warm seven, three times a day. (Guizhi Shaoyao Zhimu Decoction in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber)

④ Treat heart ruffian, all adverse, heart hanging pain: Cinnamon Twig, ginger each three two, five. On the three flavors, six liters of water, boiling three liters, three temperature service. (Guizhi Shengjiang Zhishi Decoction in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber)

⑤ After the treatment of typhoid fever and sweating, the person with palpitation under the umbilicus wants to be a galloping Dolphin: half a Jin, four liang of cinnamon twigs (peeled), two liang of licorice (roasted), and fifteen jujubes (broken). On the four flavors, take a bucket of sweet water, first boil Poria cocos, reduce two liters; take all kinds of medicine, boil three liters, remove dross, take one liter warm, take three times a day. (Fuling Guizhi Gancao Dazao Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

⑥ For the treatment of blood arthralgia, yin and yang are tiny, the Cunkou is closed slightly, the middle of the ruler is small and tight, and the external syndrome is not benevolent, like wind arthralgia: three Liang, peony three Liang, Cinnamon Twig three Liang, ginger six Liang, jujube twelve. On the five flavors, six liters of water, boil two liters, warm seven, three times a day. Huangqi Guizhi Wuwu Decoction

⑦ For the purpose of clearing away blood and losing essence, the pulse is slightly tight: Cinnamon Twig, peony, ginger each three Liang, licorice two liang, jujube 12 pieces, oyster each three Liang. On the seven flavor, seven liters of water, boiling three liters, three temperature service. Guizhi Longgu oyster soup

⑧ Treatment of deficiency, acute palpitation, abdominal pain, dream loss of sperm, sore limbs, hot hands and feet, dry throat and mouth: three liang of cinnamon twigs (peeled), two liang of licorice (fried), twelve jujubes, six liang of peony, three liang of ginger, one liter of gum. Take seven liters of water, boil three liters, remove dross, use glue and malt, then put on low heat to digest, take one liter warm, three times a day. (Xiaojianzhong soup)

⑨ If the fetus moves on the umbilicus, it is a hundred chronic diseases. If the fetus moves in June of pregnancy, it will also happen in the first three menstrual periods. Blood, after the break in March, male also. So more than blood, its 100 not to, so also, at present its 100: Cinnamon Twig, Poria cocos, peony (to heart), (peeled, sharp, boil), peony each equal. On the five flavors, at the end, refining honey and pills, such as rabbit excrement. Take one pill before eating every day. Add three pills if you don't know. (Guizhi Fuling pill, prescription 6 is from synopsis of the golden chamber.)

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the heart method of Medicine: "the smell of Cinnamon Twig is light, so it can ascend and disperse on the surface. "

② Wang Haogu: "or ask" Materia Medica "to say that osmanthus can stop sweating, and Zhang Zhongjing should treat typhoid fever by sweating, and use Guizhi Decoction in all places; you Yun, you can't take Guizhi without sweating, and you can't sweat heavily. If you use Guizhi, you can't sweat heavily. If you use Guizhi Gancao Decoction, you can also use Guizhi to stop sweating. Is the meaning of "one medicine with two uses" similar to that of "Materia Medica"? It is said that "Materia Medica" says that Gui Xin Gan is very hot. It can propagate all kinds of medicines, dredge blood vessels, and stop sweating. It is to regulate blood and sweat itself. Zhong Jingyun, the sun stroke, Yin weak perspiration, Wei Shi Ying deficiency, so fever perspiration. Another cloud, the sun disease fever sweating, this is the Ying weak Wei strong. Because of yin deficiency and yang deficiency, Cinnamon Twig is used to sweat. This is to regulate the Ying Qi, then the Wei Qi is harmonious, and the wind evil is not tolerated, so the self perspiration is resolved. It is not the Cinnamon Twig that can open the Li and send out its perspiration. If the Cinnamon Twig is used to regulate the camp and defense, the evil will come out of the sweat and the sweat will stop itself. It is not the Cinnamon Twig that can close the pores of the sweat. Ignorant people don't know the meaning of sweating or sweating. In the case of typhoid fever, those without sweating also use Cinnamon Twig, which is very wrong. Guizhi Tang under the sweating words, when recognized to make words, sweat naturally issued, not if Mahuang can open the hair, haircut its sweat also. In the treatment of asthenia and sweating, we should also observe its meaning. "

③ According to the supplement of Materia Medica Yanyi, "Zhongjing uses Cinnamon Twig to treat exterior diseases, but not exterior deficiency, which is supplemented by Cinnamon Twig; Wei has wind evil, so the disease is spontaneous sweating, which is caused by Cinnamon Twig; Wei he uses secret sweating to stop itself, which is not controlled by Cinnamon Twig. "

④ "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says: "ephedra penetrates all over the skin and hair, so it is specialized in sweating and dispersing cold evil. The lung dominates the skin and hair, and the heart moves the lung. Guizhi into the camp Wei, it can jieji and wind evil, spleen main camp, lung main Wei, Gan go spleen, Xin go lung. "

⑤ According to the book of Materia Medica, Cinnamon Twig is a medicine for dispersing wind and cold, expelling exterior evil, sweating evil, stopping cough and removing wind and pain between limb joints. Although the smell is not separated from pungent heat, it is a branch, which can only spread between skin and skin, and between arm and knee joints. "

⑥ According to the book of Materia Medica, "although the branches of Cinnamomum cassia and the thin branches of Cinnamomum cassia belong to thin branches, the thin branches of Cinnamomum cassia, especially those with thin skin, seem to be less powerful than the branches of Cinnamomum cassia. In addition, Cinnamomum cassia is also used to treat galloping porpoise. Galloping porpoise belongs to kidney qi. Kidney qi comes out of bladder and Cinnamomum cassia goes into foot

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