1, drug introduction
Cinnamomum cassia bark is the dry bark and thick branch bark of Cinnamomum cassia, an evergreen tree of Lauraceae. It has a fragrant smell and functions similar to fennel. It is often used as a raw material with strong cooking smell, and it is also the main component of spiced powder, and it is one of the earliest spices eaten by human beings. Mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei and other places, Guangxi has a large output and good quality. There are also fresh laurel leaves in the place of origin for seasoning.
Cinnamon is divided into barrel cinnamon, thick cinnamon and thin cinnamon. Barreled osmanthus fragrans is the skin of a tender osmanthus tree. It is fine, clean, sweet, delicious and earthy, and has the best quality. It can be chopped and cooked as seasoning. Thick cinnamon bark is rough, rich in flavor and purple in color, which is the best for stewing. Thin cinnamon has fine skin, fine meat lines, thin taste and little fragrance, and the skin is gray, lippi, red and yellow, just like thick cinnamon.
Cinnamon is a kind of cinnamon. Generally speaking, Cinnamomum cassia bark is barrel-shaped after drying, which is called "Guitong". When you say "cinnamon", it means "Guitong" with rough skin removed, which is also written as "Guixin", and its curative effect is similar to that of "cinnamon".
2. Nutritional value
1. Cinnamon has a strong aroma, which can remove the fishy smell of meat dishes and greatly increase people's appetite;
2. Appropriate addition of cinnamon to dishes is helpful to prevent or delay type II diabetes caused by old age;
3. Cinnamon bark contains phenylacrylic acid compounds, which have therapeutic effect on prostatic hyperplasia.
3. The choice of cinnamon
1. Don't use damp and moldy cinnamon, and avoid eating it in summer;
2. Choose cinnamon: high-quality cinnamon with a grayish brown appearance and a red lining. When chewing with your mouth, it is better to be sweet first and then spicy.
4, suitable for the crowd
The general population can eat it.
1. Suitable for patients with anorexia, cold pain in waist and knees, rheumatoid arthritis and bradycardia;
2. Not suitable for constipation, hemorrhoids patients and pregnant women.
3. Cinnamon contains carcinogenic safrole, so the less you eat, the better, and it is not suitable for long-term consumption;
5. curative effect
Cinnamon is pungent and sweet, hot, and enters the kidney, spleen and bladder meridian;
Has the effects of nourishing Yuanyang, warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, dredging collaterals, relieving pain and stopping diarrhea;
Indications: fire failure of life gate, slight cold pulse in limbs, yang fatigue, abdominal pain and diarrhea, cold hernia, cold pain in waist and knees, amenorrhea? Hysteria, gangrene, yang deficiency floating on the upper body and other symptoms, with heat and cold.
1. Warming kidney and strengthening yang: it can be used for chills, cold limbs, cold pain in waist and knees caused by kidney yang deficiency, and also for asthenic asthma and qi reversal caused by kidney deficiency;
2. Warming the middle and dispelling cold: it is used for spleen and stomach deficiency, epigastric cold pain, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and is often used with dried ginger and aconite;
3. Warming meridians and relieving pain: it can warm and dredge blood vessels, dispel cold and relieve pain, and is used for dysmenorrhea and limb pain caused by cold coagulation and qi stagnation.
This taste is sweet and hot, pure yang is dry and intense, and it is good at warming and nourishing the lower energizer, dispelling cold and relieving pain. Red blood can also promote the growth of qi and blood, so it is the main medicine for spleen and kidney yang deficiency, cold coagulation and pain, and qi and blood deficiency and cold.
Guixin: it tastes bitter and bitter, and it is non-toxic. 【 Function 】 Strengthening yang and promoting blood circulation
Ramulus Cinnamomi: Xin Ganwen, non-toxic. 【 Function 】 Warming Meridians and Promoting Pulse to Sweat