What are the medicinal properties of cinnamon?

Cinnamon is a very common plant in our daily life. It is also a traditional Chinese medicinal ingredient with great medicinal value. It has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on some cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases that are more likely to occur in the human body. At the same time, it can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and play a role in calming the nerves. Today we will learn about some of the main medicinal values ​​of cinnamon in traditional Chinese medicine.

It is forbidden to take this medicine in patients with Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, internal heat, excessive bleeding due to blood heat, and pregnant women. Fear of red ochre.

1. Effects on the central nervous system:

1.1. Sedative effect:

Cinnamaldehyde contained in cinnamon has a significant sedative effect on mice, which is manifested as a decrease in spontaneous activity, counteracting the excessive activity caused by methamphetamine, the movement disorder caused by the rotarod test, and prolonging the anesthesia time of sodium cyclohexylbarbital. The analgesic effect was demonstrated by using tail-pressing stimulation or intraperitoneal injection of acetic acid to observe writhing movements in mice.

1.2. Cooling effect:

It has a cooling effect on the normal body temperature of mice and the artificial fever caused by typhoid and paratyphoid mixed vaccine. Cinnamaldehyde and sodium cinnamate both have antipyretic effects on rabbits with fever caused by warm acupuncture. It can delay the time of tonic convulsion and death caused by strychnine, and reduce the incidence of tonic convulsion and death caused by niacin. It is ineffective for those caused by pentanetetraazole.

2. Antihypertensive effect:

The compound of aconite and cinnamon bark has a hypotensive effect on rats with adrenocortical hypertension (a model formed by burning one side of the adrenal gland); but has no effect on rats with renal hypertension (a model formed by ligating the kidney in a figure-8 shape). This effect may be due to the fact that aconite and cinnamon promote the activity of the reduced adrenal glands and return them to normal.

3. Effect of preventing schistosomiasis:

Mice were orally administered an infusion (unspecified species) at 0.2 ml/10 g body weight (10.8 g/180 ml) daily for 15 days. On the third day after taking the medicine, they were infected with schistosomiasis, but it had no preventive effect. However, it had a certain effect when used together with realgar, betel nut and asafoetida.

4. Effects on blood:

Cinnamon has a significant inhibitory effect on ADP-induced platelet aggregation in rats in both in vitro and in vivo experiments. In vitro experiments show that cinnamon water decoction and methanol-soluble part have a strong anticoagulant effect. The monomers extracted from cinnamon - cinnamic acid and coumarin - have no obvious anticoagulant effect. In vivo experiments showed that cinnamon decoction had no anticoagulant effect and did not affect the fibrinolytic activity of rabbits. 5. Effects on the digestive system:

Although cinnamon has many benefits for human health, it does not mean that everyone can eat it in life. Especially for those who have yin deficiency and excessive fire, or those who have real fire in their bodies, try not to eat cinnamon. At the same time, if women eat too much meat during pregnancy, it will be very harmful to the health of the fetus.