Cinnamomum cassia

Cinnamomum cassia

(Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

[synonym] Cinnamomum cassia, San Tiao Jin and Xiao Nian Yao (selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the stem bark of Cinnamomum camphora.

[plant morphology] Cinnamomum camphora

Evergreen tree, up to 15 meters high, with brown bark and fragrant. Branches often opposite, nearly tetragonal, pubescent, but soon glabrescent. The leaves are large, nearly opposite, hard leathery, elliptic long elliptic to ovate long elliptic, 10-22 cm long and 4-6 cm wide, first rounded or gradually narrowed, base broadly cuneate, entire, olive green above, light green below, glabrous, 3-veined, with transverse parallel veinlets between them; petiole stout, brownish, 1.2-2 cm long. Flowers yellow; panicles large, subterminal, shorter than or as long as leaves. The fruit is small, elliptic or oblong, about 1 cm long, with round and apical apex; the receptacle is shallow cup-shaped, enclosing the base of the fruit, with 6 round teeth on the edge. It blooms in spring. The fruit period is from April to May.

It grows in dense forest on hillside or beside ditch. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

[collection] harvest in autumn.

Sweet and warm.

① Guangzhou army "commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "Xin, Wen. "

② Selected Yunnan Chinese herbal medicines: "Gan Xin, Wen". "

[functions and indications] ① the manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army: "dispel wind, disperse cold, promote qi and relieve pain. Treatment of stomach cold pain, diarrhea, rheumatic bone pain, lumbar muscle strain, kidney deficiency, impotence, amenorrhea, snake bite. "

② "Selection of Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine": "detumescence, hemostasis, bone grafting. Treatment of traumatic bleeding, fractures. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: Yanmo, 3-5 points. External use: grind the end to scatter or adjust to apply.