Gui Zhi is the dried shoots of cinnamon. There is also a story about the misuse of cinnamon sticks that hurt people. During the Qing Dynasty, a wealthy man’s concubine felt the onset of typhoid fever, so he asked the then famous doctor Jin Shenzhi to come to the clinic, Jin Shenzhi carefully check the condition, that is, typhoid fever table deficiency evidence, although the use of Gui Zhi Tang, but taking into account the patient’s weak body is not resistant to the force of medicine, so the Gui Zhi only used 5 points. However, when the wealthy man went to buy medicine, the pharmacy apprentice mistakenly thought it was the regular dosage of cinnamon branch 5 money. As a result, the patient ate, his condition worsened, and died. Later sued to the government, a careful review only to find that the pharmacy apprentice problems. After this incident, in order to make future generations pay attention, so the local Gui Zhi Pavilion was built to caution medical students when careful prescription. Because of this incident, Jin Shenzhi almost went to jail, so he wrote a couplet with emotion: “When arsenic comes to save a person’s life, the transport of cinnamon sticks kills him. Gui Zhi is effective in relieving sweat and muscle, warming the meridians, and helping Yang to transform Qi. It is suitable for treating wind-cold colds, wind-fearing fever, headache and body pain, wind-cold and damp paralysis, menstrual and abdominal pain, cold pain in the epigastrium, dysmenorrhea, blood-cold menstrual closure, joint paralysis, palpitation and dolphin, phlegm and cough due to water-damp stagnation, frostbite, and urinary discomfort. Since cinnamon branch is pungent and warm to help Yang, it is easy to injure Yin and move Blood, so it is not suitable for those with warm fever, Yin deficiency and Yang, and Blood heat delusion. Gui Zhi is both a good medicine and an ingredient. Gui Zhi Scallion Ginger Porridge Ingredients: 10 grams of cinnamon sticks, 100 grams of rice, 2 stems of white onion, 3 slices of ginger. Directions: 1. Wash the cinnamon sticks and put them in a pot. 2, add water, soak for 5-10 minutes, and then decoct the juice. 3, add rice and cook porridge, when cooked, mix in white onion, ginger. 4, and then boil for one or two boils to eat. Effects: Relieves sweating, warms the menstrual flow. Gui Zhi Red Date Porridge Ingredients: 6 grams of cinnamon sticks, 10 red dates, 10 grams of ginger, 50 grams of round-grained rice, 10 grams of sugar. Directions: 1. Wash the cinnamon stick and ginger separately, put them into a pot and decoct them in water as usual, remove the dregs and leave the juice in the pot. 2, round-grained rice, red dates were cleaned, put into the pot with the juice, and then add the appropriate amount of water, as appropriate, as the normal method of cooking porridge. 3, boil until the round-grained rice is cooked, add sugar, mix well, serve warm. Efficacy: dispel wind, dispel cold, nourish blood, suitable for skin itching and other diseases. Gui Zhi Brown Sugar Drink Ingredients: 10 grams of cinnamon sticks, 15 grams of red dates, 15 grams of hawthorn, 30 to 50 grams of brown sugar. Directions: 1. Wash cinnamon sticks, red dates and hawthorn, and decoct them in water to extract juice. 2, add brown sugar and boil, then drink while hot. Efficacy: warming the menstruation and dispersing cold, activating blood circulation and relieving pain. Suitable for premenstrual or menstrual pain in the abdomen, low menstrual flow, etc.