What is cinnamon
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Cinnamomum cassia Presl (Latin scientific name: Cinnamomum cassia Presl), also known as Yugui, mudui, Yushu, Dagui, lagui, Pingan tree and Chinese cinnamon, is the dry bark of Cinnamomum cassia. The bark is aromatic and can be used as spice. Its taste is similar to that of cinnamon from Sri Lanka, but it is spicy, less delicious and thicker than cinnamon. It is mainly produced in Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and Hunan, and also cultivated in Jiangxi. The function and edible method of cinnamon are introduced below.
What is cinnamon
Indications: tonifying Yuanyang, warming the spleen and stomach, eliminating cold accumulation and activating blood vessels. It is used to treat the fire failure of life gate, cold pulse of limbs, collapse of dead Yang, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cold hernia, galloping porpoise, cold pain of waist and knee, syndrome of amenorrhea, Yin gangrene, bleeding, deficiency of Yang, upper heat and lower cold.
Second, clinical application for impotence of Kidney Yang weakness, uterine cold, asthma, palpitation and so on. This product is an important medicine for curing the decline of fire in Mingmen. Cold carbuncle in the heart and abdomen, pain caused by cold hernia, cold arthralgia, lumbago, chest arthralgia, Yin gangrene, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, treatment of bronchial asthma, effect on central nervous system, prevention of schistosomiasis, etc.
Edible method 1. Mutton cinnamon soup: put 6 grams of cinnamon in about 1 jin stew. After stewing, no matter eating meat or drinking soup, it can play the role of warming stomach, warming waist and knee, treating abdominal cold and bloating. 2. Cinnamon powder: 3 grams of cinnamon, grind fine powder, twice a day, warm water delivery service, can treat stomach gas distension, stomach cold pain; cinnamon powder added to the dish cooking, can help control blood sugar and cholesterol. 3. Cinnamon and brown sugar tea: Cinnamon 3-6 g, brown sugar 12 g, decoct in water to remove dregs, take warm twice. Can treat women postpartum abdominal pain: before menstruation with 3 grams of cinnamon, 9 grams of Hawthorn meat, 30 grams of brown sugar, the right amount of water decoction for three or five minutes, take it twice. It can treat abdominal distension and pain when menstruation comes. 4. Cinnamon ointment: 6 grams of cinnamon, 6 grams of clove, a total of fine powder, into the plaster, paste children's navel, can treat infantile diarrhea. 5. Cinnamon and aconite egg soup: 3 grams of cinnamon, 9 grams of aconite, 1 egg, fried cinnamon and aconite in water, remove the residue, beat in the egg, eat the egg juice after cooked, twice a day. Can treat leucorrhea too much. 6. Every day, 30 minutes before breakfast and before going to bed, make a cup of boiling water with two spoons of honey and one spoonful of cinnamon powder, and drink it. Drink regularly, even if you eat high calorie food, it won't let the body accumulate fat.
matters needing attention
1. Cinnamon is hot, suitable for eating in cool weather, and should not be eaten in summer. 2. Due to the heat and blood circulation of cinnamon, it is vulnerable to fetal gas, so pregnant women must be careful to eat. 3. It is not suitable for those with Yin deficiency, excessive fire, blood heat and bleeding. 4. Patients with menorrhagia, pelvic inflammatory disease, pharyngeal pain and other febrile diseases should not eat, and those with history of blood loss and spermatorrhea should also fast. 5. Use cinnamon instead of scallion.
