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Bot.: Cinnamomum aromaticum syn. Cinnamomum cassia

Chinese name: Rou gui

Healing power:
- for diabetes. Cinnamon promotes the insulin effect, so that the blood sugar level can be controlled.

- for diseases of the metabolism,

In traditional Chinese medicine Cinnamon tonics the Yang Energy and is used for lack of kidney, spleen and heart Yang.

- Cinnamon strengthens the stomach,

- promotes blood circulation,

- the sight,

- relieves pain,

- works sudorific,

- and astringend.

- Cinnamon is used to increase appetite,

- for fatique,

- cold hands and feet,

- pompously eyes,

- chronical diarrhea,

- rheumatism,

- colds,

- kidney diseases,

- hypertension,

- to strenghten the heart.

- Cinnamon works antiviral,

- antimycotic,

- antibacterial,

- diuretic.

How to use:
About 2 years old plants are cutted and skinned. The bark (Rou Giu) has to be fermented. Then the bark has to be dried.
Even the branches (Gui Zhi) are medicinal used.
To treat the diseases a brew is made: You have to take approximately 4 g Cinnamon and boil it with water. Drink 1 cup of tea two times per day.
Out of the bark the spice is processed by rasping. The spice is used in bread, cakes and pastries, fruits, glühwein, chocolate.
Pregnant women and people with fever shouldn´t take Cinnamon brews.

Description of the plant:
Cinnamon grows in China, Sri Lanka, India, Laos, Sumatra, Vietnam and Brasilia.
The tree reaches a height up to 17 m , is evergreen and belongs to the family of the lauraceae.
The Chinese cinnamon belongs to the plants used in traditional Chinese medicine. The plant is responsible for the organs liver, spleen, kidneys, heart and bladder.
The belonging to the taste is hot and sweet, the energy very hot.

Ingredients:
Essential oil, like cinnamon aldehyd 80%, tannines, sugar, resins.