1, dispelling cold and warming body
When the weather is cold, many people will feel cold hands and feet, especially diabetics, who can't keep warm even with a hot water bottle. At this time, they can drink a cup of hot cinnamon tea, which can help fire and yang, dispel cold and warm meridians, and make patients feel fever all over.
2. Hypoglycemic effect
Cinnamon contains volatile oil and cinnamaldehyde. Foreign studies show that cinnamaldehyde and volatile cinnamon oil can enhance insulin and make more blood sugar in the blood be converted into fat storage, which is not a good medicine for diabetic patients, but it has a certain hypoglycemic effect.
3. Calm down and sleep peacefully
When people reach middle-aged and old age, they often can't sleep well, can't sleep at night, and wake up in a nightclub for no reason. They are in poor spirits during the day and get tired easily.
Cinnamaldehyde contained in Cinnamomum cassia has sedative effect and can inhibit the activity of central neurons. Drinking a cup of osmanthus tea before going to bed can prevent insomnia and ensure the quality of sleep.
4. Nourishing yin and nourishing yang
Cinnamon is hot, which can warm and tonify the fire of life gate and play the role of warming and tonifying kidney yang. Cinnamomum cassia can be used to treat soreness of waist and knees, cold limbs, impotence, nocturnal emission, dysuria or frequent urination caused by deficiency of kidney yang and qi deficiency. Cinnamon has a pungent taste and good sex, and has a certain health care effect on some gynecological diseases such as dysmenorrhea, infertility due to palace cold and amenorrhea. It has the effects of warming meridians and dredging veins, and can be used for treating amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, infertility due to uterine cold, etc.
5. Precautions for eating osmanthus tea
1. osmanthus tea is a good health-care Chinese medicine, but this kind of tea should not be eaten more. Excessive consumption of cinnamon can cause acute poisoning and endanger health.
2. Cinnamon is a hot Chinese herbal medicine. Hot friends are not suitable for drinking osmanthus tea to avoid getting angry.
6. Warm reminder
Cinnamon bark is thick and oily, and it has strong sex and taste. Nourishing it is to warm the cold of heart, liver, spleen and blood, remove blood stasis and create new things. When taking it, it should only be soaked in water, not decocted. If you fry too much, the gas and oil will evaporate and become invalid. Because rough skin is to prevent peacock excrement, it is better to cut it off. The coolness of cassia seed is thinner than cinnamon, and it can also replace cinnamon, but it can't replace cassia twig tip. Now, a kind of gum cinnamon has been found in Honghe and Yuanyang, Yunnan. Although it tastes hot and warm, its juice is sticky and condenses into a ball after soaking in water. After taking it, it blocks the gastrointestinal tract and is not easy to dissolve. On the contrary, the chest and stomach are full of cold and stuffy, and the rest are tried and tested, so it is not suitable for medicine.