Yugui, also known as cinnamon, is widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas, especially in Guangxi cultivation. Its aroma, can be used as a spice, sweet and spicy flavor. It is also a good traditional Chinese medicine, "Ben Jing" records that cinnamon is the main upper gas and cough, with the efficacy of warming the kidneys and strengthening the yang, expelling phlegm and suppressing cough, warming the menstruation and dispersing cold.
1. Sedation and analgesia
Cinnamon contains cinnamic aldehyde, cinnamic aldehyde has been proved in animal mice entity test, it has anti-excitatory, analgesic effect, this effect is mainly due to cinnamic aldehyde has a role in the function of the central nervous system, inhibit neuron activity to realize the sedation and analgesia.
2. Cooling
The normal body temperature of mice and artificial fever caused by typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever mixed vaccine have cooling effect. For rabbits with fever caused by warm prick, cinnamaldehyde and sodium cinnamate have antipyretic effect.
3. Antibacterial
Cinnamon bark oil has a powerful bactericidal effect on Gram-stained positive bacteria better than negative, due to irritation, rarely used as an antibacterial drug, but the external application of the treatment of gastric pain, gastrointestinal flatulence colic and so on.
4. pass menstruation
Many women due to age or daily routine irregularities, the body's metabolic disorders, menstrual disorders is a common thing. Cinnamon contains a lot of cinnamon oil, this kind of oil has a certain volatile effect, but also has the effect of menstruation, can cause uterine congestion, to promote menstruation, which is also the basis of cinnamon has the effect of abortion.
5. Anti-gastritis
The function of the organs in the human body is declining with age, which is a normal aging phenomenon, but partly due to disease, the stomach is one of the main digestive organs, but also one of the most widespread part of the disease, more than half of the world's population suffers from gastric problems. The aqueous extract of cinnamon has a certain anti-gastritis effect, mainly through the inhibition of gastric acid secretion and promote the blood superficialization to achieve, increase the blood flow on the gastric mucosa, nourish the gastric mucosa, and promote the healing of inflammation.