Cinnamania

Like most of my countrymen, I love cinnamon.

My aged Chinese teacher once caught me in Costco buying the big bottle. "You eat too much! Cinnamon is medicine!" she scolded me.

Cinnamon is acrid, sweet, and warming. It releases the muscle layer, warms the channels and vessels, warms the Stomach, assists the Heart, unblocks the chest, and transforms mucous. Because it is warming, it is not recommended when a person has internal heat.

As a general rule, it should be used sparingly (if at all) in the heat of summer and moderately in the cold of winter.

Not recommended for use with abandon.