There is no difference between longan and cinnamon.

Longan, also known as longan, is a fruit. The name cinnamon is due to its round black gloss, the umbilicus protruding white, looks like the legendary "dragon" eyes, so named. Fresh longan meat is very tender, juicy and sweet, delicious, really not as good as other fruits. Fresh longan baked into the dried fruit that is to become the traditional Chinese medicine cinnamon.

In addition to "longan", cinnamon aliases are "sub-litchi", "swallow egg". Cinnamon has tiger's eye, Shek Kip longan more than thirty varieties, in China, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places are distributed. Among them, Fujian production accounted for 50% of the total national production. Harvested in the fall when the fruit is ripe, peeled off the skin, fresh, or the fruit is dried, peeled off the aril for spare.

Expanded Information:

Cinnamon has a high medicinal value, the details are as follows:

1, cinnamon contains glucose, sucrose and vitamins A, B and many other nutrients, which contains more is protein, fat and a variety of minerals. These nutrients are very necessary for the human body. Especially for people who labor, consume heart, spleen, qi and blood, more effective.

2, cinnamon can be treated after illness or brain weakness. Women in the postpartum tonic is also very suitable. But it is best not to eat during pregnancy. Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded: "food to lychee is expensive, and ZiYi is longan is good". Double the respect for cinnamon.

3, cinnamon is rich in nutrients, is a valuable nourishing and strengthening agent. Fruit in addition to fresh food, can also be made into canned food, wine, paste, sauce, etc., can also be processed into dried meat, such as Gui Yuan. In addition longan leaves, flowers, roots, nuclei can be used as medicine.

Cinnamon contains a variety of nutrients, has the effect of tonifying blood and tranquillizing the mind, brain and intellect, nourishing the heart and spleen. Research has found that the inhibition rate of cinnamon on uterine cancer cells is more than 90%, women's menopause is the stage of gynecological tumors, appropriate to eat some longan is conducive to health; cinnamon has a tonic effect on the need for post-disease recuperation and physical weakness of the people have auxiliary therapeutic effects.

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