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Cinnamomumzeihnicum

Reading about the life of Solomon, we learn that in his reserved garden there grew a cinnamon tree, which was looked after with special care. The fragrant powder obtained from its bark was part of the sacred fragrant myrrh with which the Tabernacle, sacred vessels and sacred persons were anointed.

Compared to other spices, cinnamon was the most popular and most expensive. The Arabs, in order to maintain a high price for the product, told the Greeks that cinnamon grows in the nests of the Phoenix bird and it takes a lot of courage and ingenuity to collect the spice. Chinese merchants said that the cinnamon tree grows only in swamps and is protected by huge bats. It was only in 1498, when Vasco da Gama visited Ceylon on his way to India, where cinnamon trees grew in large numbers, that Europeans established a monopoly on the cinnamon trade. If any of the inhabitants of Ceylon dared to present a twig of a cinnamon tree as a gift, the colonialists deprived them of their lives for this act, since the price of cinnamon was very high. The bark is removed from Chinese cinnamon once every 10 years, and from Ceylon cinnamon - once every 2 years, but despite this, Ceylon cinnamon is valued higher due to its high taste.

Cinnamon gained the greatest popularity in China. It is difficult to find a recipe for a medicine in Chinese medicine that does not contain a fragrant powder. Cinnamon was considered a universal stomach remedy. In 1698, the physician and pharmacist Nikolai Lemeni published the “General Dictionary of Simple Medicines,” in which he wrote about cinnamon: “It moves urine and fluids, strengthens the stomach, heart and brain, promotes digestion, regulatesno the menstrual cycle and facilitates childbirth in women, relieves gas. In large quantities it leads to overexcitation and puts you in a state of extreme anxiety. In cold weather it is necessary for older people, for phlegmatic and melancholic people, for anyone with a weak stomach and poor digestion; however, she is completely unsuited to young people of a hot and bilious temperament.”

In Odo’s medical poem “On the Properties of Herbs” we read:

It dries out the moisture in the stomach, strengthens it itself, and makes it easier for it to digest food. Take it and it will heal your liver, cleanse your urine and the flow of Regulus, soothe your catarrh and relieve your cough. That type of dropsy, which is called tympanitis, like the suffering of the kidneys, is cured with abundant intake. Treats reptile bites, and if taken together with eye remedies, it will dry out aqueous humors. If you combine it with strong vinegar and diligently apply it to your face, it gets rid of freckles...

Avicenna stated: “Having absorbent and astringent properties, as well as thinness, cinnamon strengthens the organs. Cinnamon dissolves hot and cold tumors in the insides. Cinnamon and honey are used to lubricate ulcers. Cinnamon infusion helps against liver disease. Cinnamon strongly drives urine and menstruation, especially if thick juices are the cause of urine and blood retention, and helps with pain in the kidneys and bladder. If you sit in its decoction, it is beneficial for the expansion and slipperiness of the uterus. They give it to drink for poisoning from viper venom.”

Medicinal properties

1. Stimulates the functions of the respiratory system.
2. Improves the functioning of the digestive system, increases the secretion of gastric juice, salivation, prevents food poisoning and bloating. Prescribed for stomach atony, intestinal parasites, fermentation processes in the intestines, constipation, intestinal colic, dyspepsia, nausea, vomiting. Stimulates appetite.
3. Recommended for leucorrhoea and frigidity. Regulates the menstrual cycle and volume of discharge.
4. Effective for congestion in the genital organs in men, impotence.
5. Accelerates blood circulation in the body and has a hemostatic effect.
6. Improves heart activity.
7. One of the strongest antiseptics. Used to treat acute respiratory viral infections, colds, coughs. Stops hemoptysis.
8. Optimizes metabolism.
9. Antifainting agent.
10. Helps with asthenic conditions after a long illness.
11. Restores the body's defenses.
12. Effective in the treatment of fungal skin diseases, warts, scabies, lice.
13. Used in dentistry for oral infections.
14. Eliminates rheumatic pain, relieves muscle tension and muscle inflammation.
15. Cleans the air well during an epidemic of infectious diseases.
16. Tones the nervous system, improves mood, recommended for states of fear, depression, and to strengthen memory.
17. Eliminates skin inflammation, improves blood circulation.
18. Softens the effects of wasp and snake bites.

Dosage

Externally: 3-4 k. per 10 ml of vegetable oil.

Internally: 1 k. for 1 tsp. 3 times a day after meals.

Bath: 4-5 k.

Inhalations: 3-4 k.

Compresses: 6-7 k.

Enrichment of cosmetics: 1-2 k. per 10 g of base.

Contraindications. Individual intolerance. Increased skin sensitivity, pregnancy, hypertension.

Note. When enriching cosmetics, the dosage of oil should not exceed 1%.