Can I eat dried cinnamon in early pregnancy?

It is not advisable to eat dried cinnamon at the beginning of pregnancy. Dried cinnamon is a forbidden fruit for pregnant women, especially early pregnant women. Although cinnamon can nourish qi and blood and benefit the heart and spleen, it is warm in nature and sweet in taste, which can help fire and dryness, and should not be taken by people who have yin deficiency and internal heat, dampness and fullness, and phlegm and fire. Chinese medicine believes that the main physiological change of pregnant women is that Yang is often surplus and Yin is often deficient, because after conception, Yin and Blood are gathered to nourish the fetus, which mostly leads to Yin and Yin and Blood deficiency, and Yin deficiency often breeds internal heat, which often results in symptoms of fetal heat and liver fire, such as dry stools, bitter and dry mouth, palpitations and dry heat, and red tongue. Therefore, there is usually a fetal front should be cool advocate, commonly used some cool nourishing drugs. Pregnant women will not only increase the fetal heat after eating it, but also easily lead to Qi imbalance, causing stomach rebellion, vomiting, and over time, it will hurt Yin and bleeding heat, causing abdominal pain, redness and other symptoms of preterm abortion, and even cause miscarriage or premature birth, so pregnant women should not eat dried cinnamon.