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title: "Xin Yi Hua"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/625/xin-yi-hua"
---

 ![xin yi, magnoliae flos.jpg](/u/xin-yi-magnoliae-flos-471V8I.jpg) 

# Xin Yi Hua

### Magnoliae Flos

_acrid, slightly warm_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Releases the Exterior for Cold Attack**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Loss of smell
- Nasal congestion
- Headache
- Sinus congestion
- Common cold

Xin Yi Hua is acrid and warm. It enters the lung and stomach
systems to treat exterior cold attack especially with nasal or sinus
congestion.

**Channels:** lung, stomach

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Headache
- Common cold
- Runny nose
- Sinusitis
- Body aches
- Eczema

**Formulas:**
- Cang Er Zi San
- Xin Yi Qing Fei Yin
- Xin Yi San

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Xin Yi Hua to patients
that present with extreme deficiency heat

**Zoo Image:** a porcupine in a Xin Yi has a head wrap and is sneezing nasal
discharge

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