What is cinnamon

Cinnamon is a very common plant in our daily life. Because this plant prefers a cool and humid environment, it is mainly distributed in the southern region of my country. This plant has both medicinal and edible value in life, and is of great help to people. Many ordinary people prefer cinnamon. Generally, we see dried cinnamon because it can be preserved better.

Many people say that cinnamon has an aphrodisiac effect, which is true. It can also strengthen the stomach and spleen, making people more energetic. Many people add cinnamon to soup as a seasoning, so that the essence of cinnamon can flow into the soup.

1. Morphological characteristics: Medium-sized tree; bark is gray-brown, and the bark of old trees is up to 13 mm thick. Annual branches are cylindrical, dark brown, cinnamon with longitudinal fine stripes, slightly pubescent; current year branches are more or less quadrangular, yellowish brown, with longitudinal fine stripes, densely covered with grayish yellow short hairs. The terminal bud is small, about 3 mm long, with bud scales broadly ovate, gradually pointed at the apex, densely covered with grayish-yellow short hairs.

2. Growth Environment: Cinnamon grows in evergreen broad-leaved forests, but is mostly cultivated [3]. Cinnamon prefers a warm, humid environment with plenty of sunlight. It is light-loving and shade-tolerant. It prefers warm, frost-free, foggy and hot places. It cannot tolerate drought, waterlogging, severe cold and dry air. Loose, fertile, well-drained, acidic sandy loam rich in organic matter is suitable for cultivation. Therefore, under artificial cultivation conditions, it is advisable to create a warm, humid environment for it. Cultivated on sand dunes or mountain slopes.

3. Distribution: It is native to China and is now widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Yunnan and other provinces, especially in Guangxi. It is also found in India, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia and other places, but most of them are artificially cultivated.

4. Main value: medicinal value

Function and indications

Replenish Yuan Yang, warm the spleen and stomach, eliminate accumulated cold, and unclog blood vessels. It is used to treat deficiency of fire in the gate of life, cold limbs and weak pulse, yang loss and collapse, abdominal pain and diarrhea, cold hernia and running pig, cold pain in the waist and knees, amenorrhea, abdominal masses, yin carbuncle, leukorrhea, as well as floating of false yang, heat on the upper body and cold on the lower body.

The above introduces some knowledge about cinnamon. If you don’t know what cinnamon is, you will know it after reading this article. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cinnamon has the effect of lowering blood pressure. If you are using cinnamon as medicine, it is recommended that you first consult a doctor in a regular hospital and take it under the doctor's instructions.