Cinnamon Materia Medica

Cinnamon has long been used in herbal medicine, the medicinal parts being the bark (primarily) and the leaves. In herbal medicine cinnamon is considered to exert the following therapeutic actions: stimulant, sedative, tonic, stomachic, carminative, hemostatic, astringent.

Essential oil of cinnamon is distilled from the leaves, twigs and dried inner bark of the cinnamon tree. In Spiritual PhytoEssencing, the essential oil distilled from the inner bark is preferred. The most important chemical component of the bark oil is cinnamaldehyde, an aldehyde which promotes gastrointestinal motility and is powerfully antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral.

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