Essence.
It comes in several types. One type is red with a pleasant taste and smell, the other is similar in taste to rue. Another variety is black with a purple tint and smells like a rose, while another black variety is foul-smelling and has thin, cracked bark. There is a whitish variety of cinnamon with a smell like leek, and a black variety with a thin empty tube. They say that sometimes you come across something similar to Ceylon cinnamon, which turns into Chinese cinnamon. One of the doctors mentions that cinnamon of this kind is often found on the Chinese cinnamon tree, which is sometimes found near real Chinese cinnamon.
Choice.
The best cinnamon is red, clean, smooth, in the form of long sticks and thick tubes with small holes, dense, with a pungent odor, burning and tightening the tongue. Black cinnamon is bad and only the bast is used from it, and its wood is worth nothing.
Nature.
Hot, dry to the third degree.
Properties.
Cinnamon dissolves thick winds. It is slightly astringent, slightly stinging and very thin. Due to its sharpness, it opens; Thanks to its astringent property, it contributes to other astringents, and its absorbent power helps the action of laxative drugs. Possessing absorbent and astringent properties, as well as thinness, cinnamon therefore strengthens the organs.
Tumors.
Cinnamon dissolves hot and cold tumors in the insides.
Wounds and ulcers.
Cinnamon and honey are used to lubricate ulcers.
Organs of the eye.
It is part of eye medicines, because it combines astringent properties with absorbent properties.
Respiratory system.
Cinnamon is good for breasts.
Nutritional organs.
Cinnamon infusion helps against liver diseases. Wine to which cinnamon is added is good for the stomach.
Eruption organs.
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. Fumigation with cinnamon has the same effect. The wine it contains is a good remedy for difficulty urinating. Some claim that it expels the fetus.
Poisons.
It is given to drink against poisoning from viper venom.