Latin names : Cinnamomum verum, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, Laurus cinnamomum (Cinnamomum cassia is different) French names : Cannelle de Ceylan, Cannelier de Ceylan (feuilles et écorce) Extracted from: bark (for Cinnamon bark), leaves (for Cinnamon leaves)
Prevention before travelling: 2 - 3 drops of oil under the feet every morning and every night to avoid digestive issues. For people more seriously concerned about this: Mix 10% of oil in an excipient and drink 10 drops of this in a glass of water 2 to 3 times a day. Microbes will have to run really fast to catch up with you!
Even half a drop of cinnamon bark in a cup of hot chocolate with almond milk... Mmmmh!
To diffuse for a warm, cosy (even sensual) atmosphere at home.
To diffuse if you struggle making up after an argument.
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The plant, its legends and its botany
Cinnamon tree belongs to
the family of lauraceae which so prolific in smells and tastes: this family is
a repository of flavours on the planet. Thin and slender, it is rather small,
especially in culture (it must be harvested ...) Lots of leaves and clusters of
small white flowers all play an olfactory role.
The red gold of this tree, however, is its extremely thin
bark (less than a millimetre thick). It is collected every 2 years from the
trunk and main branches. The bark makes long ribbons that curl on themselves as
they dry in the tropical sun. They are cut into the 10-centimetre-long sticks
that we know in the kitchen. Pretty brittle when fresh, its smell amazingly
fills up the space of a room. This definitely freshness makes one forget
cinnamon powders sold in supermarkets.
2,700 years BC already, Chinese Emperor Nung Sheb had had
it placed in his medicinal herbarium. It was one of the earliest spices that
Greeks and Romans imported from the East through the Arabs. It was even burned
like incense then. Indeed, though its main use nowadays is as a flavour (for
example the world's number one buyer is a famous cola drink trademark), its
symbolic use was much more popular in antiquity. It was associated with bats
and winged serpents.
Cinnamon's soft energy is relaxing and soothing and it makes
one enjoy life by snuggling down into the warm blanket of its powerful smell. Abstract of 'Encyclopédie d’aromathérapie et médecine de la
conscience "(Böhning / Tauxe)
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Energetic properties
Energetic and physical properties for Cinnamon leaves and Cinnamon bark are the same.
Stimulates the will to use your senses for your own happiness Makes one become more epicurean Warms up the atmosphere Boosts all the emotions (laughter, anger) Stimulates creativity Decreases feelings of suspicion Diminishes tendency to isolate self Weakens sadness and melancholy To find pleasure in sharing with the others (bark especially) Flushes the feeling of being a victim
Very dermocaustic Keep children out of reach. Bark: no other contraindications within physiological dosage on children and pregnant women Leaves: pregnant women: uterotonic, therefore to be avoided during pregnancy children: no other contraindications within physiological dosage The proportion of coumarins in cinnamon oil does not induce liver problems within physiological dosage.
