Gui Zhi, Cinnamon twig - 4 oz.

Cinnamon Twig releases the muscle layer, unblocks the yang qi, warms the middle. - Bensky

English Name: Cinnamomum Cassia, Ramulus
Chinese Name: Gui Zhi
Unit Size: 4 oz.
Potency: 8:1
Taste: Acrid, Sweet - Bensky
Properties: Warm - Bensky
Channels Entered: Heart, Lung Bladder
Actions: Releases the muscle layer, unblocks the yang qi, warms the middle. - Bensky
Pattern: Exterior wind-cold; Wind-cold-damp painful obstruction; Yang deficiency with lack of transformation of fluids; Listless chest yang together with upward movement of phlegm and thin mucus and the loss of the orderly descent of Lung qi; Painful obstruction in the channels, vessels and collaterals; Cold from deficiency of the middle burner. - Bensky
Chinese Symptomology: Exterior wind-cold; Wind-cold-damp painful obstruction; Edema with urinary dysfunction or dizziness and palpitations due to lack of transformation of fluids due to yang deficiency; Shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations due to listless chest yang together with upward movement of phlegm and thin mucus and the loss of the orderly descent of Lung qi; Painful obstruction; Cold from deficiency in the Middler burner. - Bensky
Materia Medica: Release the Exterior
Contraindications: Contraindicated in cases of warm-heat pathogen disease, yin deficiency with heat signs, and heat in the blood with vomiting. During pregnancy or in case of excessive menstruation, use only in doses of 6g [raw herb] or less, preferably the dry-fried cinnamon twigs. Its use is also discouraged where there are signs of pathogenic heat. - Bensky