Cinnamon is delicious and aromatic and is a wonderful
warming and strengthening remedy to dispel cold, winter chills, and symptoms
associated with cold congestion, and deficiency of vital energy. Cinnamon is
also used to treat diarrhoea, rheumatism, hypertension, abdominal pains, and
female problems.
A hot drink of cinnamon stimulates the circulation and
causes sweating preventing or resolving flu, colds catarrh, fevers, and
infections. You can inhale oil of cinnamon for head colds and chest infections.
Cinnamon’s warming and stimulating properties can be given direction in the
body by combining it with other remedies; with thyme, hyssop, or elecampane for
bronchial congestion and infection; with angelica and blue cohosh as a uterine
remedy to treat irregular and painful periods, heavy bleeding, infections, and
leucorrhoea.
Cinnamon warms and stimulates the digestive system,
improving digestion and calming colic, diarrhoea, nausea, wind, and distension.
Its tannins stem bleeding in nosebleeds, heavy periods, and resolve catarrh.
The essential oil in cinnamomum zeylanicum is one of the strongest natural
antiseptics known. Its antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties
prevent and treat acute infections, including cystitis, colds bronchitis,
thrush and enteritis, ME, and chronic infections, such as candidiasis and
tonsillitis. Eugenol in the oil acts as an anaesthetic, helping to relieve pain
in arthritis, headaches, muscle pain, and toothache when applied locally.
Today, the flavour of cinnamon and the scent from it are
used by many people around the world, not only to spice up food but also to
enhance the quality of life.
