The difference between cinnamon and cinnamon bark is reflected in the origin of the medicinal herbs, sexual flavor and attribution, efficacy, indications, precautions and so on.
1. Origin: Cinnamon is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the dried bark of Cinnamomum cassia, a plant of the family Camphoraceae; Cinnamomum cassia is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the bark of Geranium cinnamomum, Cinnamomum cinnamomi and Cinnamomum cinnamomum, a plant of the family Camphoraceae.
2. Flavor and Meridian: Cinnamon is pungent, sweet and hot, and goes to the kidney, spleen, heart and liver meridians; cinnamon bark is pungent, sweet and warm, and goes to the spleen, stomach, liver and kidney meridians.
3. Efficacy: Cinnamon has the efficacy of tonifying fire to help Yang, inducing fire to return to the source (inhibiting the rise of fire in the kidneys), dispersing cold, relieving pain and warming the meridians; Cinnamon has the efficacy of warming the middle Jiao and dispersing cold (dispersing cold by warming the spleen and the stomach), and regulating qi and relieving pain.
4. Indications: Cinnamon is suitable for impotence and cold uterus, cold pain in the waist and knees, dizziness, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, kidney deficiency for asthma, deficiency of yang upward (the relative lack of yang qi affects the head and face), cold vomiting and diarrhea, cold hernia and abdominal pain (visceral cold and feel the external wind-cold-induced acute abdominal pain), menstrual dysmenorrhea and menstrual occlusion.
Cinnamon is used for vomiting and diarrhea, cold pain in the epigastrium (cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), lumbar and knee pain, cold hernia and abdominal pain, cold-dampness paralysis, bloody diarrhea, intestinal wind, stagnation and dysmenorrhea, bruises, swelling and pain, traumatic injury, bleeding, and so on.
5. Precautions: Cinnamon should be used cautiously in people with bleeding tendency and pregnant women, and should not be used with red stone resin. Cinnamon is forbidden to be used in the person with yin deficiency and fire, heat disease and injury to the body fluid.
Specific medication should be under the guidance of a specialist, not unauthorized use of medication.