Cinnamomum cassia

Cinnamomum cassia

(Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II)

[synonym] gouguo (Lingnan medicine collection record), yanzhigong (Guangzhou army's "manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine").

[source] it is the fruit of Osmanthus fragrans.

[plant morphology] Cinnamomum cassia, also known as red Cinnamomum cassia.

Trees, up to 15 m tall, glabrous or young branches slightly pilose. Leaves alternate, leathery, elliptic to oblong elliptic or obovate elliptic, 7-15 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, apex short, acuminate and obtuse, base cuneate or broad cuneate, entire, both sides bare, green above, bright, light below, or the same color, or brown; lateral veins about 7 pairs; petiole 8-12 mm long, bare. Flowers unisexual, monoecious; male inflorescence solitary in leaf axils, with short petiole, obovate or elliptic, 6-8 mm long, outside puberulent, perianth segments 2-3, stamen 1, erect; female perianth tubular, lower part buried in common axis, ovary straight. The fruit is succulent, subglobose, 2-3 cm in diameter, covered with rust colored pubescence when young, nearly bald, smooth, yellow or red when ripe. The flowering period is from April to May.

More cultivation. It is distributed in Guangdong and Guangxi.

[collection] harvested in autumn, sliced and dried.

[medicinal material] the dried fleshy fruit is nearly spherical, 2-3cm in diameter, and its stalk is short and thick. The appearance is wrinkled, grayish green to tawny, and some are rusty. Most of the products are cut into thick slices about 0.3-1 cm thick, and the flesh of the cross section is mostly fleshy body formed by perianth, which is light brown to brown. Achenes numerous, heart-shaped or ovate, small, yellowish brown, buried in the flesh. It is slightly sour and slightly sweet.

Produced in Guangdong and Guangxi.

The fruits of the same genus are also used as medicine. The leaves of Cinnamomum cassia are oblong, covered with white pubescence and reticulate veins; the male flowers are 12-16 mm long; the fruit has a long stalk, about 1.5 cm in diameter, pubescent.

Distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[nature and taste] Guangzhou army's Handbook of common Chinese herbal medicine: "sour, flat. "

[function indications] it can produce body fluid, stop bleeding, appetizer and remove phlegm. Treatment of heat and thirst, hemoptysis, hematemesis, bleeding, sore throat, loss of appetite.

① Lingnan medicine collection record: "Xiaoshi, Lianqi and Zhike Xue. "

② Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II: "relieving cough and eliminating phlegm. "

③ "The list of Guangxi Medicinal Plants" says: "it can produce body fluid, relieve cough and help digestion. "

④ "Clearing away heat and appetizing, astringent and hemostatic" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. Treatment of lung heat, hemoptysis, hematemesis, bleeding, sore throat; lack of stomach acid, loss of appetite. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang.