Cinnamon effect is to tonify the fire to help Yang, lead the fire back to the source, dispersal of cold pain, warm through the meridians, dry ginger effect is to warm the cold, back to the Yang through the veins, warm the lungs to drink, Chenpi can be qi and spleen, dry dampness and phlegm. However, the efficacy of Chinese herbs in water is limited, and cannot be used as a substitute for medicine.
Cinnamon is pungent, sweet, and hot in nature, and has the effect of tonifying fire and assisting yang, inducing fire to return to the source (inhibiting the rise of fire evil in the kidneys), dispersing cold, relieving pain, and warming the meridians. It can be used for impotence, cold uterus, dizziness and redness, dysmenorrhea and menstrual cramps.
Dried ginger is pungent in taste and hot in nature, with the effects of warming the middle and dispersing cold (dispersing cold evils by warming the spleen and stomach), returning Yang to the channels and warming the lungs to dissolve drinks (promoting the flow of stagnant fluid by warming the lungs).
It can be used for cold pain in the epigastrium (feeling cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs with weak pulse, and wheezing and coughing from cold drinks.
Chenpi is pungent in flavor and warm in nature, with the effects of regulating qi, strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm (expelling dampness and resolving phlegm by drying dampness), and can be used for abdominal distension and fullness, low food intake, vomiting and diarrhea, and coughing with excessive phlegm.
Cinnamon bleeding tendency and pregnant women should not be used, should not be used with red stone resin, dry ginger yin deficiency internal heat, blood heat is prohibited, Chenpi qi deficiency evidence, yin deficiency and dry cough within the real heat should not be served.
Herbs in water can not replace the drug treatment, but also need to consult a doctor, under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner or pharmacist to take medication.