The medicine we share today is a part of Gui, a top quality of Beimu, which has been reused by medical doctors and chefs from ancient times to the present day. 76 prescriptions in the “Treatise on Typhoid Fever” use it in combination, and it is also the main medicine of the first prescription, and it is used in Ephedra soup with Ephedra as the ruler and subject, although it is not as strong as Ephedra for sweating, but it can warm Yang and open the veins and help Yang to transform Qi, it is the young branch of Gui, Gui Zhi. Prescription Name Gui Zhi, Gui Zhi Tips Sources and Effects of Gui Zhi Source: Dried young branches of Cinnamomum cassia, family Camphoraceae. Distribution: Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places. Properties: Pungent, sweet, warm. It belongs to the heart, lung and bladder meridians. Effects: Relieving sweat and muscle, warming the meridians and opening the veins, helping Yang to transform Qi, dispersing cold and relieving pain. Effects of Gui Zhi 1. Wind-cold colds. It is suitable for external wind-cold, regardless of whether the surface is real or not, or whether the surface is deficient with sweat. It is often used in combination with Bai Shao and other herbs to treat wind-cold with sweating. 2.Cold stagnation of blood and pain. It is often used with Citrus aurantium and Allium sativum to treat chest Yang and chest paralysis and heart pain; for wind-cold damp paralysis and shoulder and arm pain, it can be used with Radix et Rhizoma rehmanniae. 3. Phlegm and water retention. Combined with Yun Ling and Atractylodes macrocephala, it has definite efficacy in treating palpitation, dizziness and phlegm-drinking caused by the inability of spleen-yang to transport and internal stagnation of water-dampness. 4. Used with Glycyrrhiza glabra, Medicago sativa and Ginseng to treat palpitations and knots in the pulse caused by inactivity of the heart yang and obstruction of the blood vessels with certain efficacy. The dosage and usage of Gui Zhi is 3-9g, taken internally with a decoction of water. Contraindications of Gui Zhi 1.Because this product has the effect of warming the menstrual channels, it should be used with caution by pregnant women and those with excessive menstruation. 2.Because this product is a pungent and warm medicine, it is contraindicated in patients with blood heat and external heat illness. 3. This product has the effect of helping Yang to transform Qi, so it is contraindicated for patients who are prone to injure Yin and move Blood, and for patients with Yin deficiency and fire. Gui Zhi food therapy a, gui Zhi stew pork loin Ingredients: 10g of cinnamon stick, 10g of sage, 10g of yu zhu, 5g of wolfberry, pork loin 1, ginger, salt. Method: 1, the herbs, pork loin washed and cut spare; 2, the herbs, pork loin, ginger together into the stew pot, water slightly soaked over the surface of the ingredients, cover the lid; 3, put into the pot slow stew for one and a half hours, add salt to taste. Main treatment: kidney Yang deficiency. Efficacy: for elderly people with blurred eyes, brain overuse of mental fatigue and other diseases. Ingredients: 1 duck (about 1000g), 10g cinnamon stick, 5g star anise, 5g aromatic leaves, 30g rock sugar, 200g ginger, 200g sesame oil, 50g Guangdong rice wine, 150g soy sauce (75g each of soy sauce and dark soy sauce). Method: 1. Wash and cut the duck meat into pieces, and cut the old ginger into slices. 2, put sesame oil in a pot, medium heat to 60% heat into the ginger slices, slowly stir. 3, to ginger slices stir until slightly browned when the duck meat will be poured in. 4, stir-fry until the duck is browned, pour in an appropriate amount of soy sauce stir-fry to color, stir-fry evenly and then pour in Guangdong rice wine, continue to maintain medium heat stir-fry for about 15 minutes. 5, stir-fried until the duck meat moisture stir-fried dry, when the color darkened, add sugar, star anise, cinnamon, allspice, add the right amount of salt to taste. 6, add boiling water without duck meat, turn on high heat until boiling, turn low heat and slowly stew for 1.5 hours. 7, 10 minutes before the pot will be washed wolfberry added, turn on the high heat mix and burn until the soup is thick and fragrant. Indications: nourish the heart and calm the mind, in addition to annoyance, blood circulation. Efficacy: 1, spring and summer can be taken to dispel summer dampness; 2, during autumn and winter to dispel dryness, nourish the stomach and spleen, dispel cold and other effects.