Cinnamon is hot, pungent and sweet in nature, and belongs to the kidney, spleen, heart and liver meridians.
Cinnamon is the dried bark of Cinnamomum cassiae, family Camphoraceae, which has the effect of tonifying fire and helping yang, dispersing cold and relieving pain, activating blood circulation and promoting menstruation.
It can be used to treat kidney yang insufficiency, impotence, cold uterus, dizziness, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, cold pain in the waist and knees, running dolphin (cold upward, such as the dolphin’s running), cold stagnation of blood stasis, menstrual dysmenorrhea, yin gangrene (is a kind of slow condition of the Yin sores disease of the general term), flow of injections (issued in the deep muscle of the multiple abscesses), and other diseases.
Cinnamon is beneficial to fire and yang, pungent and hot, consume yin and move blood, so pregnant women are forbidden to take cinnamon, patients with deficiency of yin and fire and patients with bleeding tendency should also not take cinnamon.
Patients who are not feeling well are advised to consult a doctor promptly. If you need to take cinnamon, please do so under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner.