Cinnamon twig is a highly valuable traditional Chinese medicine with medicinal properties. According to traditional Chinese medicine, cinnamon twig can induce sweating, relax muscles, warm the meridians, promote yang energy transformation, and disperse cold and alleviate pain. It is used for treating exterior wind-cold patterns, cold-dampness arthralgia, cold limbs, menstrual pain due to blood stagnation, masses and lumps, chest pain, palpitations, phlegm retention, and difficult urination. It is commonly used for wind-cold common cold, abdominal pain and coldness, blood stagnation causing menstrual irregularities, and joint pain. Today, I will recommend two traditional Chinese medicinal recipes that can dispel wind and eliminate dampness. Let's take a look together.
Traditional Chinese Medicinal Recipes for Dispelling Wind and Eliminating Dampness
1. Cinnamon Twig, Angelica Sinensis, and Eel Soup
Ingredients: 10g cinnamon twig, 15g angelica sinensis, 6g ligusticum chuanxiong, 200g eel, 5 red dates, salt to taste.
Instructions:
1. Wash the angelica sinensis, ligusticum chuanxiong, and cinnamon twig. Wash the red dates and soak them until soft. Remove the pits.
2. Cut the eel open, remove the internal organs, wash it, and blanch it in boiling water. Remove the eel, rinse it with cold water, scrape off the mucus, and cut it into long pieces.
3. Put all the ingredients into a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours. Season with salt and serve.
Benefits:
1. Cinnamon twig: Induces sweating, relaxes muscles, warms and opens the meridians, promotes yang energy transformation, and regulates qi.
2. Angelica sinensis: Nourishes blood, regulates menstruation, stops pain, and moistens the intestines.
3. Ligusticum chuanxiong: Promotes blood circulation, dispels wind and alleviates pain, and regulates menstruation.
4. Eel: Nourishes blood, replenishes qi, has anti-inflammatory and disinfectant properties, and dispels rheumatism.
5. Cinnamon Twig, Angelica Sinensis, and Eel Soup: This soup has the effects of dispelling wind and eliminating dampness, promoting blood circulation, nourishing blood and replenishing qi, and regulating menstruation and relieving pain.
2. Cinnamon Twig and Peony Decoction
Ingredients: 9g cinnamon twig, 9g peony root, 9g ginger, 3 jujubes, 6g licorice root.
Instructions:
1. Wash all the herbs.
2. Pour an appropriate amount of water into a pot, add the herbs, decoct until all the impurities are removed, and drink it warm.
Benefits:
1. Cinnamon twig: Relieves fever, relieves pain, induces sweating, and releases the surface.
2. Peony root: Clears heat, cools blood, promotes blood circulation, and resolves blood stasis.
3. Ginger: Dispels wind, expels cold, detoxifies, and nourishes and moistens the lungs.
4. Jujubes: Nourishes blood, calms the mind, harmonizes the medicinal properties, and tonifies the spleen and stomach.
5. Licorice root: Clears heat, stops coughing, replenishes qi, relieves pain, and sedates.
6. Cinnamon Twig and Peony Decoction: Dispels wind and eliminates dampness, promotes blood circulation, and relieves pain.
Tips from the editor: These recipes should be avoided by those with warm diseases, yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, excessive heat in the blood, excessive blood circulation, pregnant women with fetal heat, and postpartum rheumatism accompanied by excessive sweating.
