1, raw materials are not the same:

Cinnamon and cinnamon raw materials are not the same, although they are from the cinnamon tree, but the difference between the source parts is very big, cinnamon is the shoots of the cinnamon tree as the main raw material, after drying the production of slices made of a traditional Chinese medicine.

Cinnamon is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the main trunk of the cinnamon tree, removing the old skin on the outside and taking the young skin of its branch parts.

2, the use of different:

Cinnamon sticks are generally based on traditional Chinese medicine, often used to treat diseases such as wind-cold cold, will not be used as an ingredient.

Cinnamon can also be used in traditional Chinese medicine, but most of them are still used for flavoring, mainly as ingredients.

3, the efficacy is not the same:

In the clinical above cinnamon sticks are generally used to treat cold and wind-cold problems, because the mildness of cinnamon sticks is better, it will enter the lungs through the heart meridian.

Cinnamon in the clinic is mainly used to treat the treatment of yang failure and the severe symptoms of internal cold, because of the hot nature of cinnamon, to the heart, liver, kidneys, spleen. It sinks and enters the lower part of the body.

Expanded Information

Cinnamon (Latin name: Cinnamomum cassia Presl) is a camphor family, camphor genus of medium-large trees, gray-brown bark. Leaves alternate or nearly opposite, long elliptic to nearly lanceolate, leathery, margins cartilaginous, involute, green, glossy, glabrous, petiole stout. Panicles axillary or subterminal.

Cinnamon branch, alias: willow cinnamon (scientific name: Cinnamomum cassia Presl) for the camphor plant cinnamon Cinnamomum cassia Presl dry shoots. It is harvested in spring and summer, and the leaves are removed and dried in the sun, or sliced and dried in the sun.

References

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cinnamomum cassia Presl

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cinnamomum cassia Presl