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Gui Zhi - Cassiabarktree Twig 【Net Wt: 100g】

Gui Zhi - Cassiabarktree Twig 【Net Wt: 100g】

Regular price $25.92 CAD
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NPN 80095563

Gui Zhi

【Macroscopic Features】 Long cylindrical, numerous branches, 30~75cm long, thick end is about 0.3~1cm in diameter. Externally reddish-brown to brown, with longitudinal crest lines, thin wrinkles and small spot-like scars of leaf, branch, and bud, spotted lenticels. Hard and brittle texture, easily broken. Slices are 2~4mm thick, fractured surface has reddish-brown cortex, yellowish-white to pale yellowish-brown xylem, slightly square pith. Distinctively aromatic odor, sweet and slightly acrid taste, which is relatively potent in the cortex.

Properties】 Acrid; sweet; warm.

【Channels (meridians) entered】Heart, Lung, Bladder

Functions
Promotes sweating, resolves the flesh, warms and frees the channels and vessels, assists yang in transforming qi, downbears qi. Apply to wind-cold type of common cold, abdominal cold pain, amenorrhea due to cold blood, joint impediment, phlegm and retained fluid, edema, palpitations, renal mass.

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