Star anise, cinnamon bark and incense leaves are both Chinese herbs and spices, with the effect of warming the middle and dispersing cold (to warm the spleen and stomach medicines to dispel the cold), moving qi and relieving pain (by regulating the body’s qi to relieve pain), the specific use of the doctor’s instructions.
1. Anise, the Chinese herb anise, is warm in nature, pungent in flavor, and belongs to the spleen and kidney meridians. This product has the effect of warming the middle and dispersing cold, regulating qi and relieving pain, and is often used in the treatment of cold symptoms, such as cold hernia, cold pain in the waist and knees, cold and damp feet (numbness, soreness and swelling caused by cold and dampness in the legs and feet), cold pain in the epigastric region (cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), cold vomiting and other diseases.
2. Cinnamon is warm in nature, pungent and sweet in taste, and belongs to the stomach, spleen, liver and kidney meridians. It has the effects of warming the spleen and stomach, warming the liver and kidney, dispelling cold, relieving pain, dispersing blood stasis and eliminating swelling, and is mainly used in the treatment of coldness, impotence, cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, rheumatism and paralysis, and lumbago.
3. Fragrant leaves are warm in nature and pungent in flavor. It has the efficacy of dispelling wind and removing dampness, promoting qi and relieving pain, and killing insects, and can be used to treat rheumatic paralysis, hernia, scrotal eczema, scabies and other conditions.
In addition to being used as medicine, the three can also be used as spices in daily life. It is worth noting that people with Yin deficiency and internal heat should not use the above three medicines, and it is recommended to follow the doctor’s advice to choose the medicine.