[3]? Sexual flavor: Great heat in nature, pungent and sweet in taste.

Functions: Nourishing fire to help Yang, drawing fire back to the source, dispersing cold and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation and menstruation. It is used for impotence, uterine cold, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, deficiency cold vomiting and diarrhea, menstrual closure, dysmenorrhea, warming menstruation and promoting menstruation.

Cinnamon main efficacy:

Kidney yang insufficiency; vital fire cold limb cold; lumbar and knee soreness; impotence and spermatorrhea; urinary incontinence or frequency; shortness of breath and asthma; swelling and urination; vital fire failure; fire does not return to the source; Dai Yang; Gel Yang; and the upper and lower heat and cold; cold face and feet; dizziness, tinnitus; tongue and mouth broken; spleen and kidney cold; cold and painful epigastric region; food loss, loose stools; kidney deficiency lumbago; cold and dampness paralysis pain; pain in cold hernia. Cold uterus and infertility; dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia; postpartum abdominal pain with stagnation and stagnation; gangrene; or cold carbuncle ulcers with pus without ulceration; or ulceration without convergence

Cinnamon Contraindications

Cinnamon is contraindicated for use in medicinal treatment

It is contraindicated in cases of yin deficiency and fire, solid heat inside the body, hemorrhage with blood heat and in pregnant women. It is also used in the treatment of bleeding and pregnant women.

1. Effects on central nervous system:

1.1. Sedative effect:

Cinnamaldehyde contained in cinnamon has obvious sedative effect on mice, which is manifested as the reduction of spontaneous activity, the fight against methamphetamine (Methamphetamine) produced by the excessive activity, the movement disorders produced by the rod turning test, and prolongation of cyclohexylbarbital sodium anesthesia time. anesthesia, etc. It has been shown to have analgesic effects by using tail-pressing stimulation or intraperitoneal injection of acetic acid in mice to observe writhing body movements.

1.2 Cooling effect:

It has a cooling effect on the normal body temperature of mice as well as on the artificial fever induced by typhoid and paratyphoid vaccine. For rabbits with fever caused by warm prick, cinnamaldehyde and sodium cinnamate have antipyretic effects. It can delay the time of tonic convulsions and death caused by strychnine, and can reduce the incidence of tonic convulsions and death caused by nicotine. It is not effective in those caused by Huxtetrazol.

2. Antihypertensive effect:

The compound formula of Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori and Rhizoma Cinnamomum Cassiae has an antihypertensive effect on adrenocortical hypertensive rats (the model of adrenal gland burned on one side), while it has no effect on renal hypertensive rats (the model of kidney ligation with figure-of-eight ligature). This effect is probably due to the adenosine and cinnamon to promote the function of the adrenal gland reduced activity, so that it tends to normalize.

3. Prevention of schistosomiasis:

Mice daily oral dip (unspecified species) 0.2ml/10g body weight (10.8g/180ml), *** service 15 days, the third day of the drug infected with schistosomiasis, there is no preventive effect, such as with andrographis, betel nut and ferula used together has a certain effect.

4. Effects on blood:

Cinnamon in vitro and in vivo tests, have significantly inhibited ADP-induced platelet aggregation in rats, in vitro tests show that cinnamon decoction and dissolved methanol part of a strong anticoagulant effect. The monomers extracted from cinnamon - cinnamic acid and coumarin, anticoagulant effect is not obvious. In vivo test cinnamon decoction also has no anticoagulant effect, does not affect the rabbit fibrinolytic activity.5. Effects on the digestive system:

5.1. Stomach:

Cinnamon oil stimulates the sense of smell, can reflexively promote gastric function, but also directly on the gastric mucosa has a gentle stimulation, so that the secretion increases, peristalsis enhancement, was aromatic gastric effect.

5.2 Intestinal excitatory effect:

Cinnamon oil orally administered to rabbits, can promote intestinal motility, intestinal excitation. It also has the same effect on the intestinal tube of isolated rabbits, which is a good explanation for the ancient saying of warming the spleen and stomach and removing cold accumulation.

6. Other effects:

6.1. Emmenagogue:

A large amount of cinnamon oil can cause uterine congestion, showing the effect of emmenagogue, which is an experimental basis for the ancient herb said the effect of abortion.

6.2 Bactericidal effect:

Cinnamon bark oil has a strong bactericidal effect, the effect of Gram stained positive bacteria is better than negative, due to irritation, rarely used as an antibacterial drug, but can be applied externally to treat gastric pain, gastrointestinal flatulence colic, etc.

6.3.1 Cinnamon bark oil has a strong bactericidal effect.

6.3. Stomachic and wind repellent:

It can be taken internally as stomachic and wind repellent. It also has obvious fungicidal effect and has been applied to treat ringworm of the head with a mixture containing 1.5% cinnamon bark oil and 0.5% muscimol. Cinnamaldehyde and sodium cinnamate can cause vasodilatation of frog foot web membrane and rabbit leukocyte increase.

6.4. Expectorant and antitussive effect:

Cinnamon oil is absorbed and excreted by the lungs, which dilutes the mucus and presents expectorant and antitussive effect.

6.5 Diuretic effect:

It is excreted from the kidneys and causes local stimulation, showing some diuretic effect.

6.6 Antiradiation:

Sodium cinnamate has proved to have antiradiation effect on the experiments of lethal dose of Cobalt 60, C-rays, which is given to the whole body irradiation of mice and dogs at one time.

6.7 Anti-complementary effects:

The diterpenes in cinnamon have anti-complementary effects.

6.8. Control of blood glucose homeostasis, prevention and treatment of diabetes

Cinnamon contains flavanol polyphenolic antioxidants, which increase the stabilizing effect of insulin on blood glucose levels and reduce insulin resistance. Such functions are achieved by ① activation of enzymes that stimulate insulin receptors. (ii) It is a better insulin signaling pathway in skeletal muscle tissue. [2] Cinnamon has been found to help enhance insulin activity. The active ingredient in cinnamon facilitates increased levels of three key proteins: these proteins have important effects on insulin receptors, blood glucose transport, and inflammatory responses, thus promoting insulin activity or increasing the body's sensitivity to insulin. It has also been found that certain components of cinnamon have insulin-like properties that also help in the control of blood sugar levels.

These effects - improvements in blood sugar levels, total cholesterol, bad cholesterol and triglyceride levels - can be obtained by eating about half a spoonful of cinnamon a day. And this dose is safe and reliable without any side effects. If you are taking medication and undergoing treatment, consult your doctor beforehand.