Characteristics are different: Cinnamon and cinnamon sticks belong to the same cinnamon tree products, but in traditional Chinese medicine, due to their respective parts of the medicinal use of the different, its flavor and function of the Lord and the clinical application is not the same, so can not be confused.

The so-called cinnamon refers to the bark of the tree after removing the outermost layer of the cork bark, that is, the old bark of the cinnamon tree, Chinese medicine will be its image known as "cinnamon". The cinnamon stick is used in medicine, and only the shoots with a woody heart are taken.

Cinnamon notes

Cinnamon is hot, so it is more suitable for cold season consumption, in the summer it is best not to use cinnamon Oh, and cinnamon hot blood is very easy to move the fetus, so pregnant women should not be consumed it, menstruation, yin deficiency and fire is prohibited to eat, so when using cinnamon must pay more attention to Oh.

In the stewed mutton when the cinnamon into the mutton, the ratio of about 6 grams of cinnamon a pound of mutton ratio, in the stewed either soup or meat can play a role in the treatment of abdominal cold, the role of gas. Cinnamon powder, cinnamon ground into a fine powder with warm water to take so that you can treat gas and stomach pain Oh, in our consumption of vegetables to add cinnamon can also control blood sugar and cholesterol.