How many grams of cinnamon should be used

After all, it is a frequently used medicinal material, and cinnamon can be seen in many prescriptions. Some people, when they are bored, will study health knowledge on their own, and they will also match medicinal materials to regulate their bodies. If you want to use cinnamon as a medicine, the amount of cinnamon to use is a very important issue. The following is a detailed introduction to the functions and dosage of cinnamon.

As we all know, cinnamon can replenish fire and yang, guide fire back to its source, dispel cold and relieve pain, promote blood circulation and dredge menstruation, and can treat a variety of diseases. Eating a little cinnamon every day can prevent and cure diseases, and maintain health.

Cinnamon warms the spleen and stomach, removes accumulated cold, and promotes blood circulation. It is used to treat deficiency of fire in the gate of life, cold limbs and weak pulse, yang loss and collapse, abdominal pain and diarrhea, cold hernia and running pig, cold pain in the waist and knees, amenorrhea, abdominal masses, yin carbuncle, leukorrhea, as well as floating of false yang, heat on the upper body and cold on the lower body. It is used for impotence, cold uterus, cold pain in the waist and knees, asthma due to kidney deficiency, dizziness due to yang deficiency, red eyes and sore throat, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea due to deficiency and cold, cold hernia, running pig, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea.

The doctor's advice is that the daily intake of cinnamon should be controlled at around 10g and it is not advisable to eat more than that. It has been reported that after taking 1.2 liang of cinnamon powder all at once, toxic reactions such as dizziness, blurred vision, eye swelling, dry eyes, cough, oliguria, thirst, and rapid pulse occurred. These reactions gradually disappeared after switching to cold medicine for 1 to 2 weeks.

Cinnamon enters the liver and kidney blood, can warm the meridians and dredge blood vessels, so it is often used for dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea and postpartum abdominal pain caused by cold stagnation in the meridians and stagnation of qi and blood. Clinically, it should be used together with Chuanxiong and Dangshi. For those with yang deficiency and fire decline in the lower burner, with symptoms such as fear of cold, cold limbs, soreness of waist and knees, impotence and spermatorrhea, and difficulty or frequent urination, it is best to use it together with Aconite to enhance the effect of warming and tonifying kidney yang.

Cinnamon is a warm medicine. It should not be taken if you have hot symptoms such as thirst, dry throat, sore throat, nose bleeding, and various acute inflammations. People with Sjögren's syndrome, lupus erythematosus, diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis, menopausal syndrome, chronic liver disease, hemorrhagic diseases, dry stool, hemorrhoids, and red eyes should avoid eating it.

1. Clinical Application of Cinnamon

1. It is used for the symptoms of kidney yang deficiency, fear of cold and cold limbs, spleen yang deficiency, cold pain in the abdomen, poor appetite, loose stools, and indigestion in the elderly.

2. Used for the elderly who are weak due to long-term illness, insufficient qi and blood. This product can invigorate the spleen yang and promote blood circulation. It is often used for symptoms of long-term illness, physical weakness, qi deficiency and blood deficiency. Adding a small amount of cinnamon to qi and blood-tonifying medicines such as Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Angelica sinensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, etc. can help stimulate the growth of qi and blood.