# The homology of medicine and food # Lesson 89 "Wenyang" Cinnamon

Many people know cinnamon, which is mainly known as a condiment. In China, cinnamon is found in almost all dishes. Cinnamon tastes delicious, but people who eat cinnamon like it very much. In addition to its many functions in food, it also has some medicinal uses, and it is also a kind of homology between medicine and food. Today, in the small class of traditional Chinese medicine, we will take a look at this delicious food: cinnamon.

Cinnamon is also called cinnamon, big cinnamon, jade cinnamon, purple cinnamon and Gui Mu. It's hot, sweet and spicy. Kidney, spleen, heart and liver meridians. It has the effects of tonifying fire, strengthening yang, inducing fire to return to Yuan, dispelling cold and dredging channels. Traditional Chinese medicine is often used to treat impotence, cold uterus, cold heart pain, vomiting and diarrhea caused by deficiency of kidney yang, cold pain in waist and knees, asthma due to kidney deficiency, dizziness due to yang deficiency, cold hernia, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea. Cinnamon is an important medicine for warming and tonifying, which is good at warming the interior and dispelling cold, stopping cold and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation and dredging menstruation, and can also tonify fire, help yang, warm the interior and dispel cold, bring fire back to its original state, treat upper heat and lower cold, break cold, treat cholera, muscle spasm, heart pain, hernia and dolphin run.

Modern research shows that cinnamon contains volatile oil, and the main components in the oil are cinnamaldehyde, a small amount of cinnamyl acetate, cinnamic acid and cinnamyl alcohol D 1, D2, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, riboflavin, thiamine and carotene. These components can resist excitement, calm and relieve pain, relieve neuropathic pain and joint pain, and can also directly act on the central nervous system to reduce the sensitivity to pain. They are natural Chinese herbal medicines used for sedation and pain relief. Cinnamon can also prevent thrombosis, and the volatile oil can enhance the anticoagulant ability of human body, improve the activity of platelets in blood, prevent harmful substances from damaging myocardium, maintain the stability of human heart function and prevent thrombosis. In addition, cinnamon can inhibit the activity of Helicobacter pylori, protect gastric mucosa, prevent from being hurt by Helicobacter pylori, prevent gastritis, promote the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, promote digestion, and relieve nausea and acid reflux to some extent. The cinnamon oil of Cinnamomum cassia has a strong bactericidal effect and a certain antibacterial effect on Gram-positive bacteria.

Here are some dietary remedies about cinnamon:

1. cinnamon boiled eggs: angelica 10g, cinnamon 10g, 2 eggs, 5g ginger and 5 red dates. Cleaning Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Cortex Cinnamomi, and Egg, cleaning Fructus Jujubae, and removing core; Wash ginger, slice it for later use, put the casserole on low fire, inject 1200ml of water, put angelica, cinnamon, ginger and jujube into the pot, boil for about 30 minutes until the soup is half of the original, then add eggs, turn low fire until the eggs are cooked, and then peel the eggs and eat them. It can replenish blood and promote blood circulation, warm yang and dredge collaterals.

2, cinnamon ginger tea: cinnamon 10g, dried ginger 10g, brown sugar 12g, put into a pot, add 800ml of clear water, decoct for 30 minutes, decoct with water to remove residues, and take it twice with warm clothes, which can warm channels and dredge collaterals to relieve pain; In the prophase, 5 grams of cinnamon, 0/0 grams of hawthorn meat/kloc-0, and 30 grams of brown sugar were taken twice with appropriate amount of water for 30-40 minutes to treat abdominal distension and cold pain during dysmenorrhea.

3. Mutton osmanthus soup: cinnamon10g, mutton 500g, cooking wine, onion, ginger and salt. The mutton is soaked in cold water, cleaned and cut into small pieces. Pour enough water into the pot and put the cut mutton pieces into the pot; Boil over medium heat, skim off the foam, take out the mutton, put it in the pot again, add 1000ml water, and pour in the cooking wine; Then add onion, ginger and cinnamon, cover the pot, simmer for 1- 1.5 hours, add appropriate amount of salt to taste, and continue to stew for 15-20 minutes to eat meat and drink soup, which can warm the interior, dispel cold, tonify kidney and strengthen yang.

Cinnamon is a well-known food with the same origin of medicine and food, and it is an indispensable condiment in our daily life. Cinnamon is warm, and its efficacy is mild and lasting. It is an important drug for the treatment of fire failure of the vital door, and has a good effect on those who are deficient in kidney yang and flourishing in the vital door, those who are chronically ill, weak in body, deficient in qi and blood, afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea. However, it is worth noting that cinnamon is hot, yin deficiency is strong, stomach heat is abundant, blood heat erupts, there is a tendency to bleeding, and people with menorrhagia should not take it. Taking it is also easy to cause abortion, and pregnant women are prohibited; Cinnamon is suitable for cold weather and forbidden to eat in summer. Today's Chinese medicine class is over. I hope you like it [come and see me].