Cinnamon has a strong aroma, which can remove the fishy smell of meat dishes and greatly increase people's appetite. Adding cinnamon to vegetables is helpful to prevent or delay type ⅱ diabetes caused by old age; Cinnamon bark contains phenylacrylic acid compounds, which have therapeutic effects on prostatic hyperplasia. Cinnamon is best for stewing all kinds of meat, such as braised pork and braised pork.
Cinnamon is one of the earliest spices used by human beings. It is mentioned in the historical records of BC, and cinnamon is also mentioned in the Western Bible and ancient Egyptian literature. Before the Qin Dynasty, China had used cinnamon as a condiment for meat, which was as famous as ginger. Cinnamomum cassia is called "Yinxiang" in Guangdong, belonging to Cinnamomum genus of Lauraceae. China, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other provinces have production. Cinnamon oil can be used as aromatic condiment, extracted as an important spice in food industry and used as medicine. Cinnamon bark, also known as cinnamon, cinnamon or cinnamon, is one of the earliest spices used by human beings.
Nutritional efficacy Dietotherapy has the effects of nourishing Yuanyang, warming spleen and stomach, dispelling cold and dredging veins, and relieving pain and diarrhea. Adding cinnamon into daily diet may help to prevent or delay type II diabetes caused by old age. Cinnamon bark contains phenylacrylic acid compounds, which have therapeutic effect on benign prostatic hyperplasia, can increase blood flow of prostate tissue and promote the improvement of local blood flow.
At the same time, cinnamon also has medicinal effects. Chinese medicine believes that cinnamon is hot, sweet and pungent, fragrant and nontoxic, and has the functions of warming stomach, dispelling cold, promoting blood circulation, relaxing muscles and tendons, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, and stopping diarrhea. Indications: abdominal cold, chest fullness, vomiting, diaphragmatic choking, rheumatic joint pain, blood stasis due to traumatic injury, bloody diarrhea and intestinal wind.
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