The efficacy and function of cinnamon

Cinnamon, also known as cinnamon, purple cinnamon, cinnamon, etc., is the dry bark of Cinnamomum Cinnamomum of Lauraceae. It has the effects of tonifying fire and helping yang, causing fire, relieving pain, dispelling cold and relieving pain, warming meridians, and treating impotence, waist and knee cold pain, kidney deficiency for asthma, deficiency yang floating, vertigo, heart cold pain, deficiency cold vomiting diarrhea, cold hernia abdominal pain and so on. Let's take a look at the efficacy and effect of cinnamon.

The medicinal effect of cinnamon

[taste] the taste is pungent, sweet and hot.

Kidney, spleen, heart and liver meridians.

[efficacy] tonifying fire and aiding yang, causing fire to return to yuan, dispelling cold and relieving pain, warming meridians, mainly treating impotence, uterine cold, waist and knee cold pain, kidney deficiency for asthma, deficiency yang floating, vertigo red, heart and abdomen cold pain, deficiency cold vomiting and diarrhea, cold hernia and abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea.

Related exposition of cinnamon

1. The Classic of Shennong Materia Medica: the main body has a cough of qi, arthralgia and aspiration of qi, benefit the joint, tonify the middle and replenish qi.

2. "Drug Theory": it mainly treats nine kinds of heartache, kills three worms, breaks blood, closes the moon, treats soft feet, arthralgia, non-benevolence, cell coat, except cough, gas retention, arthralgia, relieving abdominal cold, unbearable pain, dysentery and nasal polyps. Killing grass and wood poison.

3. "Rihuazi Materia Medica": treat all ethos, tonify five labor and seven injuries, clear nine orifices, benefit joints, benefit essence, clear eyes, warm waist and knees, break idiopathic disorder, eliminate blood stasis, treat wind arthralgia and joint contracture, renew muscles and bones, and build muscles.

4. Compendium of Materia Medica: treatment of cold arthralgia, wind, Yin Sheng blood loss, diarrhea, eclampsia and Yang deficiency blood loss, Neto carbuncle acne, can draw blood, sweat and pus, detoxify Agkistrodon halys venom

Pharmacological effects of Cinnamomum cassia

1. Sedative effect: cinnamaldehyde contained in cinnamon has obvious sedative effect on mice, showing a decrease in spontaneous activity, antagonizing excessive activity caused by methamphetamine, movement disorder caused by bar turning test, and prolonging the anesthetic time of cyclohexobarbital sodium. It is proved that it has analgesic effect by tail pressing stimulation or intraperitoneal injection of acetic acid to observe the writhing movement in mice.

2. Cooling effect: it can reduce the normal body temperature of mice and the artificial fever caused by typhoid and paratyphoid vaccine. Cinnamaldehyde and sodium cinnamate have antipyretic effect on rabbits with fever caused by warm needling. It can delay the time of tetanic convulsion and death caused by strychnine and reduce the incidence of tetanic convulsion and death caused by nicotine. It has no effect on those caused by tetrazole.

3. Antihypertensive effect: aconite and cinnamon compound has antihypertensive effect on adrenal cortical hypertensive rats (model formed by burning one side of adrenal gland), but has no effect on renal hypertensive rats (model formed by 8-shaped ligation of kidney). This effect may be due to the fact that aconite and cinnamon promote the decreased adrenal gland activity and make it tend to normal.

4. Anticoagulant effect: Cinnamomum cassia could significantly inhibit ADP-induced platelet aggregation in rats in vitro and in vivo, and cinnamon decoction and methanol-soluble part had strong anticoagulant effect. The monomers extracted from cinnamon, cinnamic acid and coumarin, have no obvious anticoagulant effect. Cinnamon decoction in vivo also had no anticoagulant effect and did not affect the fibrinolytic activity of rabbits.

5. Menstruation effect: a large amount of cinnamon oil can cause uterine hyperemia, showing the effect of menstruation, which provides an experimental basis for the abortion effect of ancient Materia Medica.

6. Germicidal effect: cinnamon oil has a strong bactericidal effect, and its effect on Gram-positive bacteria is better than that of Gram-negative bacteria. Because of its irritation, cinnamon oil is rarely used as an antimicrobial agent, but external application can treat stomachache, gastrointestinal flatulence and colic.

Selection of medicinal prescription of cinnamon

1. Shiquan Dabu decoction: replenishing qi and tonifying blood, nourishing the heart and calming the mind, mainly treating deficiency of labor accumulation, lack of breath, wheezing, palpitation, dry pharynx and dry lips.

2. Ginseng Yangying decoction: warming and tonifying qi and blood, mainly treating deficiency of qi and blood, fatigue cough, eating less spermatorrhea, weakness of feet and knees, unrestrained sores and ulcers, women's collapse and leakage, etc.

3. Wuji Powder: Shunqi Huatan, activating blood circulation and eliminating accumulation, the main treatment is cold, internal injury and cold, body heat without sweat, headache and body pain, neck and back restraint, chest full of gluttony, vomiting and abdominal pain, as well as women's blood gas disharmony, abdominal pain, irregular menstruation and so on.

4. Shaoyao decoction: reconciling qi and blood, clearing heat and detoxification, mainly treating damp-heat dysentery.

5. Suzi Jiangqi decoction: reducing qi and relieving asthma, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, with the syndrome of asthma and cough in the treatment of deficiency of excess and deficiency of phlegm.

The edible method of cinnamon

1, mutton cinnamon soup: 6 grams of cinnamon in about 1 jin of stew, stewed, whether to eat meat or drink soup, can play a warm stomach, warm waist and knees, treatment of abdominal cold, flatulence.

2, cinnamon powder: 3 grams of cinnamon, fine powder, twice a day, warm water to take, can treat flatulence, stomachache, cinnamon powder added to cooking, can help control blood sugar and cholesterol.