The efficacy and effects of cinnamon powder

Cinnamon powder, also known as jade cinnamon powder, is a powdered condiment made from the dried bark and branch bark of cinnamon or large-leaf clearing cinnamon, which is customary in many countries, and is also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine.

Lowering blood sugar

A recent study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that cinnamon powder, a spice commonly found in foods such as bread, can enhance cellular response to insulin, which is expected to bring good news to diabetics. According to the study, cinnamon contains an ingredient that accelerates the breakdown of sugar by up to 20 times. In other words, for diabetics who lack insulin, eating foods containing cinnamon should help alleviate the condition.

Treating chronic arthritis

Itching and pain caused by arthritis can be treated by using cinnamon powder with honey, rubbing the painful area with honey mixed with cinnamon powder, and consuming cinnamon powder with hot water.

Bactericidal pain relief

Many pains in human body are caused by bacterial infection, cinnamon powder has antiseptic effect and can cure pain caused by bacterial infection. Bladder infection: Drink a cup of hot water with two spoons of cinnamon powder and one tbsp of honey to kill the bacteria in the bladder. Toothache: Apply a paste of cinnamon powder and secretion around a sore tooth to relieve toothache.

Enhance immune system

Cinnamon powder contains many ingredients that have antiseptic effect. Consuming cinnamon powder can strengthen the immune system and protect against bacteria and viruses.

Other effects of cinnamon powder

1. Tonic fire helps Yang, draws fire to its source, disperses cold and relieves pain, invigorates the blood and opens the meridians. It warms the spleen and stomach, removes accumulated cold, and opens the blood vessels. 2. It is used to treat the failure of the vital fire, cold limbs and weak veins, deficiency of the dead yang, abdominal pain and diarrhea, cold hernia, cold pain in the waist and knees, menstrual obstruction, gangrene, flowing injection, and deficiency of yang floating over, upper heat and lower cold. 3. Cinnamon is pungent, sweet, hot; it belongs to the kidney, heart, spleen and liver meridians; it is spicy and thick, descending and ascending at the same time, capable of walking and guarding. 4. It is used for treating deficiency of kidney yang, fear of cold limbs, lumbar and shoulder weakness, as well as impotence and spermatorrhea and swelling and scanty urination. 5. Indicating cold and lumbago, cold and damp paralysis, cold hernia, dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia, postpartum stagnation and abdominal pain, gangrene, ulcer and pus not collapsing, or not converging after collapse.