Cinnamon is hot in potency, digestive, energizing, blood purifying, semen-promoting, and diuretic.It pacifies vata and kapha and thereby cures many diseases caused by increased vata and kapha. It improves immunity by increasing white blood cells. It helps in piles, worm infections, itching, tuberculosis, influenza, disease of urinary bladder, typhoid, heart disease, cancer, abdominal diseases etc.It is special medicine for infectious disease.
- Abdominal diseases, cough and colds : Licking one gram of cinnamon mixed with one spoonful of honey twice a day helps in indigestion, dyspepsia, dysentery, flatulence, cough and colds.
- Heart disease : Add 1 gm of cinnamon powder to 200 ml of water and boil the mixture on low flame till it is reduced to half. Then strain it and drink. By taking it everyday in the morning, an unusually high level of cholesterol is reduced. Persons with pitta prakritti in any season and persons of other constitutions in the summer season should take the above mentioned cinnamon decoction after adding milk to it.This recipe purifies blood and gives strength to the heart.
- Sore throat,cough and bad breath : A sore throat is alleviated by sucking a small piece of cinnamon. It clears the voice. It sedates a cough, removes bad breath and strengthens the gums.
Precautions: Use of cinnamon is prohibited for pregnant women. If a person of pitta constitution takes an excessive amount of cinnamon he develops headache. Its consumption in excess quantity and consumption at night or for long time is harmful.
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