Cinnamon

Cinnamon - healing properties

Cinnamon is a spice that has many healing properties - it is a proven remedy for weight loss, cellulite and acne. It will also help with colds and stomach ailments. Check what other effects cinnamon and cinnamon oil have.

Cooking recipe with cinnamon - Rice With Cream

Cinnamon, or ground Ceylon cinnamon bark (Cinnamonum cassia), is a spice whose properties are appreciated primarily during the holiday season. Many of us cannot imagine Christmas without the warm, delicate, sweet, spicy aroma of this spice. Meanwhile, cinnamon, as well as cinnamon oil and cinnamon seeds, have been used not only in cooking, but also in cosmetics and medicine. Cinnamon is a treasury of numerous health substances, the most valuable of which is cinnamic aldehyde, which gives cinnamon its characteristic smell and exhibits anti-cancer properties, and epicatechin, which, together with aldehyde, can prevent the development of neurodegenerative diseases and support their treatment. In addition, cinnamon belongs to the group of thermogenics, i.e. substances that accelerate metabolism and fat burning.

Cinnamon - anti-cancer properties

One of the most important ingredients in cinnamon is cinnamaldehyde. According to scientists, this compound has anti-cancer properties and can help in the fight against colon cancer, argue scientists from the University of Arizona (USA), whose conclusions were published by the EurekAlert website. In studies on mice, scientists noticed that cinnamic aldehyde added to the food of rodents helped their cells get rid of toxins, increased their regenerative potential and protected them against carcinogens (carcinogens).

Cinnamon and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

Aldehyde, as well as another component of cinnamon - epicatechin, can delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease and even prevent its occurrence - argue University of California (USA) scientists in the "Journal of Alzheimer's Disease". In their opinion, these compounds can prevent the formation of neurofibrillary tangles characteristic of Alzheimer's disease

In turn, scientists from the Rush University Medical Center (USA), while studying mice, found that cinnamon can reverse biomechanical, cellular and anatomical changes in brains suffering from Parkinson's disease. Cinnamon owes these properties to a substance called sodium benzoate. It is a food preservative that is made from cinnamon as a result of metabolic processes in the liver and can pass into the brain in this form. Although every type of cinnamon breaks down into sodium benzoate, researchers place their greatest hope in Ceylon cinnamon, which is the purest form of this spice.

Learn about the properties of cinnamon

• anti-inflammatory, analgesic and anesthetic
• stimulating the production of estrogens
• strengthening and warming
• combating skin parasites (lice, scabies) and the digestive tract
• supporting skin infections such as acne or warts
• lowering blood pressure
• normalizing the level of total cholesterol, LDL and HDL fractions.

Cinnamon for stomach ailments

Ceylon cinnamon bark extract and cinnamon oil support the proper functioning of the digestive tract. These preparations are used in food poisoning and diarrhea. Cinnamon oil additionally stimulates the secretion of gastric juice and prevents intestinal disorders. Ceylon cinnamon bark extract, on the other hand, prevents stomach ulcers.