Cinnamon, also called cinnamon, is pungent, sweet and hot in nature, entering the liver, heart, kidney and spleen meridians. It has the efficacy of warming the middle and assisting yang, dispersing cold and relieving pain. It can be used for the diseases of kidney yang deficiency and spleen yang deficiency, which are mainly manifested as coldness and limb coldness, frequent urination, cold pain in the waist and knees, spermatorrhea and cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, with little food and loose stools. Gui Pi can be used to relieve pain by dispersing cold and can also be used to relieve menstrual cramps, and can also be used to treat chronic illnesses where there is a deficiency of qi and blood. Cinnamon can be used in soups, five grams each time, or powdered, 1-2 grams each time. Cinnamon can also be used as a seasoning in cooking meat stew when put.

Pregnant women should not eat cinnamon. Cinnamon is a commonly used Chinese medicine, but also in Chinese food is a cooking seasoning, mostly used in meat stew seasoning, aromatic smell. In the "Sichuan Chinese medicine" in the cinnamon has recorded: "sex big hot, taste pungent and sweet, there is a small poison." So cinnamon as a kind of hot and dry ingredients, not suitable for pregnant women to eat, may bring harm as follows:

1, easy to cause fire: pregnant women with elevated body temperature, if eating cinnamon this hot food, is likely to cause pregnant women on fire, sore throat, severe fever, and women should try to avoid getting sick during pregnancy, otherwise it will be a bad influence on the fetus. 2, causing miscarriages : easy to produce heat before delivery, women become more dry after pregnancy intestinal tract, and cinnamon hot, into the intestinal tract and will consume a lot of water in the intestinal tract, further causing pregnant women stool.

Cinnamon is pungent, sweet, warm and hot. Attributed to the liver, heart, spleen, kidney meridian. It has the function of tonifying fire to help yang, drawing fire back to the source, dispersing cold and pain relief, and warming the meridians. Gui Pi can replenish fire and help Yang, benefit Yang and eliminate Yin, and induce fire to return to the source, which is an important medicine for treating fire failure of the vital organs. It can also treat kidney yang deficiency and spleen and kidney yang deficiency. Gui Pi can disperse cold and relieve pain, and is a commonly used medicine for treating pain caused by cold condensation. Gui Pi can warm the meridians, dispel cold and relieve pain, so it is the treatment of the cold of Chong Ren, cold condensation of blood menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea, or post-partum, not exhaustive, abdominal pain. Cinnamon is a long illness, deficiency of qi and blood, adding a small amount of cinnamon in the formula for tonifying qi and blood, is useful for guiding a hundred medicines, encouraging the growth of qi and blood effect.