The efficacy and function of mountain cinnamon

Speaking of cinnamon bark, many people know that it is a Chinese medicinal material. So do you know the effects and functions of cinnamon bark? How should it be eaten? Let’s find out now.

[Other names] Cinnamon, three tendons, small sticky medicine (Selected Chinese Herbal Medicines in Yunnan).

[Source] It is the stem bark of Cinnamomum camphora, a plant of the Lauraceae family. Harvest in autumn.

[Original form] Evergreen tree, up to 15 meters high, with brown bark and fragrance. The branches are often opposite, nearly quadrangular, and have short soft hairs, but the hairs fall off soon. The leaves are relatively large, nearly opposite, hard leathery, elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong, 10-22 cm long, 4-6 cm wide, with a rounded or gradually narrowed apex, a broad cuneate base, entire margin, olive green above, light green beneath, shiny and glabrous, 3-veined with transverse parallel veinlets in between; the petiole is thick, brownish, 1.2-2 cm long. Flowers yellow; panicles large, subterminal, shorter than or as long as leaves. The fruit is small, oval or oblong, about 1 cm long, with a round tip; the fruit receptacle is shallowly cup-shaped, covering the base of the fruit, with 6 round teeth on the edge. Flowering period: spring. Fruiting period is from April to May.

[Habitat distribution] Growing in dense forests on hillsides or beside ditches. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

【Nature and flavor】Sweet, spicy, warm.

【Functions and indications】 ① Guangzhou Army "Common Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook": "Dispel wind and cold, promote qi and relieve pain. Treat stomach cold pain, cold diarrhea, rheumatic bone pain, lumbar muscle strain, kidney deficiency impotence, amenorrhea, snake bites."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral administration: grind into powder, 3 to 5 fen. For external use: grind into powder and sprinkle or apply on affected area.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

Cinnamon has a variety of effects and functions, and we should choose the appropriate method of consumption according to different physical symptoms. In life, we can learn more about this when we have free time.