The effects and functions of clove cinnamon

Cloves and cinnamon are two common foods in people's daily lives. In addition to being used to adjust the position, these two foods also have certain therapeutic effects on the human body. The combination of the two can also achieve a certain promoting effect on human health. So, what are the effects of cloves and cinnamon respectively? The following will give a detailed introduction respectively!

1. The efficacy and effects of cloves

1. Warm the stomach

Clove tea is good at warming and nourishing the stomach. Clove warms the spleen and stomach and relieves qi stagnation. It is especially good at relieving adverse reactions. Therefore, it has the functions of warming the middle and dispersing cold, relieving adverse reactions, stopping vomiting, and stopping hiccups. It is an essential medicine for treating stomach cold and vomiting.

2. Freshen breath

Cloves are a good medicine used in ancient times to remove bad breath. The reason why cloves can remove bad breath is that their fragrance can suppress the bad smell in the mouth.

3. Antibacterial and sterilizing

Because the clove oil and eugenol contained in cloves have broad-spectrum antibacterial effects. Therefore, making tea with cloves or drinking it in decoction has a good inhibitory effect on Helicobacter pylori, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc.

4. Sober Up

The tea brewed with cloves has a rich and fragrant aroma and has a refreshing effect. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Clove kills alcohol poisoning." The Qing Dynasty poet Zou Shengheng also wrote in "Lilac Rhythm": "The dense branches near the eaves are hard to break, and the rich fragrance blowing against the seat can sober people up easily." This means that the lilac tree is tall and dense, with soft branches intertwined, making it difficult to break apart; the rich fragrance blowing against the face can sober people up after drinking too much.

5. Nourish the stomach and aid digestion

Clove leaves contain clove oil. Drinking one or two cups of this an hour after a meal can help relieve greasiness, aid digestion, and relieve bloating.

2. The efficacy and effects of cinnamon

1. Sedative and analgesic effects

Cinnamon contains cinnamaldehyde, which has been proven in actual tests on animals and mice to have anti-excitatory and analgesic effects. This effect is mainly due to the fact that cinnamaldehyde can act on the central nervous system, inhibiting the activity of neurons to achieve sedation and analgesia.

2. Anticoagulant effect

Cinnamon bark water extract and volatile oil have a certain antagonistic and protective effect on platelet aggregation and myocardial damage caused by increased endogenous catecholamine secretion in rats under ice water stress. Cinnamon decoction can increase coronary and cerebral blood flow and decrease vascular resistance in anesthetized dogs; cinnamon decoction, cinnamaldehyde and coumarin have inhibitory effects on ADP-induced platelet aggregation in rats.

3. Anti-gastritis

The functions of organs in the human body gradually decline with age, which is a normal aging phenomenon, but part of it is caused by disease. The stomach is one of the main digestive organs of the human body and is also the most commonly diseased part. More than half of the world's population suffers from stomach problems. The water extract of cinnamon has a certain anti-gastritis effect, which is mainly achieved by inhibiting the secretion of gastric acid and promoting blood superficialization, increasing blood flow to the gastric mucosa, nourishing the gastric mucosa, and promoting inflammation healing.

4. Cooling effect

In traditional Chinese medicine, the whole osmanthus tree can be used as medicine. Many traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions contain cinnamon or cassia twigs, mainly for their antipyretic effect. In animal experiments, it was found that cinnamon water extract has a cooling effect on the normal body temperature of mice and the artificial fever caused by typhoid and paratyphoid mixed vaccine. Cinnamaldehyde and sodium cinnamate both have antipyretic effects on rabbits with fever caused by warm acupuncture.