| English
Name |
| Cassia
Bark |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Picture |
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| Origin |
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Cassia
Bark is the dried stem bark of Cinnamomum cassia
Presl (Fam. Lauraceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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It
is
pungent and sweet in taste and greatly hot in nature, and
is distributed to the Kidney, Spleen, Heart, Liver
Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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| Precaution |
| Used
with caution in the patients with bleeding tendency or pregnancy
. Incompatible with Halloysitum Rubrum. |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in well closed containers, stored in a cool and dry palce. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Channelled
or quilled, 30~40 cm long,3~10cm wide or in diameter, 2~8
mm thick. Outer surface greyish-brown, slightly rough, with
irregular fine wrinkles and transverse protruding lenticels,
some showing grayish-white streaks; inner surface reddish-brown,
somewhat even, with fine longitudinal striations and fragile,
easily broken, fracture uneven, outer layer brown and relatively
rough, inner layer reddish-brown and oily, showing a yellowish-brown
line between two layers. Odour, strongly aromatic; taste,
sweet and pungent.
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ACTION |
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To supplement
body fire, reinforce yang, and lead the fire back to the kidney,
to dispel cold and relieve pain, and to activate blood circulation
and stmulate menstrual discharge. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Impotence,
frigidity, feeling of cold and pain in the loins and knees;
dyspnea in deficiency of the kidney;dizziness, inflammation
of the eye and sore throat due to yang deficiency; precordial
and abdominal pain with cold sensation, vomiting and diarrhea
in deficiency-cold syndrome; neurosis with a feeling of gas
rushing up through the chest to the throat from the lower
abdomen; amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal. |
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.
Supplementing fire and assisting Yang
In treating
exhaustion of kidney-Yang manifested by aversion to cold,
cold limbs, flaccidity of loin and feet, impotence, dysuria,
etc., the drug is often used in combination with Radix Aconiti
Praeparata, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Dioscoreae,
Fructus Corni, etc., in treating abdominal pain and diarrhea
due to deficiency of Yang of the spleen and kidney, with Rhizoma
Zingiberis, Radix Aconiti Praeparata, Semen Myristicae, Poria,
etc.
2. Dispelling
cold and relieving pain
In treating
gastralgia, abdominal pain, hernia, etc. due to cold syndrome
of deficiency type, the drug can be ground into powder and
taken, or the drug can be used with other drugs for warming
the middle Jiao to dispel cold; in treating dysmenorrhea
due to cold of deficiency type, with Radix Angelicae Sinensis,
Rhizoma Zingiberis, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, etc.
In addition,
small amount of the drug can be used in precriptions for treating
deficiency of Qi and blood, to invigorate Qi and
blood. Examples of the prescriptions are "Ginseng Nutrition
Decoction" and "Decoction of Ten Powerful Tonics," which are
used to treat deficiency of Qi and blood, "Powder for
Removing Toxin" and "Yang-Activating Decoction," which are
used to treat longlasting sores and ulceration, and "Tongguan
Pill," which is used to treat dysuria due to damp-heat in
the low warmer.
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TIPS |
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It
is pharmacodynamically different from the tender stalks used
for diaphoretic purpoaes. |
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