Gui Zhi Shao Yao Zhi Mu Tang (Cinnamon Twig, Peony and Anemarrhena Decoction)

Cinnamon Twig, Peony and Anemarrhena Decoction

Jin Gui Yao Lue, c. 220 CE

• Gui Zhi, Ma Huang, Fang Feng, Fu Zi (warm/dispel wind-damp)
• Bai Shao, Zhi Mu (nourish/clear heat); Bai Zhu, Sheng Jiang, Gan Cao

• Dispels wind-damp and warms the channels
• Clears heat and relieves chronic painful obstruction

Chronic painful obstruction with mixed cold-heat: swollen, hot yet aching deformed joints, worse with cold but with local heat, and emaciation.

Tongue: greasy coat. Pulse: wiry or soggy.

Adjust warming and cooling herbs to the cold-heat balance.

Contains Ma Huang and prepared Fu Zi - use correct doses; caution in pregnancy.