Cinnamon (scientific name: Cinnamomum cassia), also known as cinnamon, Mu Gui, Lauraceae evergreen tree.
Uses: Plant ministries, such as its bark, branches, leaves, fruit, peduncle can extract aromatic oil or cinnamon oil, used in food, beverages, cigarettes and medicine, but is often used as fragrances, cosmetics, daily necessities of flavor. Bark oil was 2.15%, 0.35% rate Guizhi oil, bay leaf oil was 0.39%, seeds (young fruit) oil was 2.04%.
Cinnamon mostly cultivated, and propagated by seed-based, so it can keep the parent offspring characteristics, in order to obtain a higher trunk branches, stripping in favor of cinnamon, and therefore rarely used in the production of asexual reproduction The method of cultivating seedlings planted. Fall more than stripping, scrape cork, dried. Due to the location and quality of stripping and processed into a variety of different specifications, a common enterprise edge Gui Gui plates, oil board Gui, Gui Tong and so on. Students use. Used to boost home or smell in the office is a good air detergents, have antibacterial effects.
Light situations can slow diarrhea and nausea, easing congestion situation, help peripheral circulation. Can make the body warm and enhanced digestion, especially in the lipid metabolism, but also to resist fungal infection. Diabetes, weight loss, yeast infections, and bleeding and other effective.
Cinnamon various parts can be respectively used in medicine, cinnamon bark is commonly known, is a traditional Chinese herbal medicines valuable, but also for spices, there are carminative stomach, stasis, and cold analgesic effect; branch is able to sweating carminative, meridians