| Botanical Name (Latin):
Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Sanskrit
Name:
Twak
Common Name (English):
Cinnamon
Type of
Herb: Western
Effect on the
Doshas:
Vata: - Pitta: +
Kapha: -
Rasa (Taste): katu, madhura, tikta
The six flavors are:
Madhura
(sweet) Amla (sour)
Lavana (salty)
Katu
(pungent) Tikta
(bitter) Kasaya (astringent)
Virya
(Energy): ushna
The two energies are:
Shita (cold)
Ushna (hot)
Vipak
(Post-Digestive Action):
katu
Guna
(Qualities):
laghu, ruksha,
The twenty gunas or qualities
of all substances are: Guru
(heavy) Manda
(dull) Shita
(cold) Ushna (hot)
Snigdha
(unctuous) Slaksna
(smooth) Sandra
(dense) Mridu
(soft) Sthira
(stable) Suksma
(subtle) Visada
(non-slimy) Laghu
(light) Tikshna
(sharp) Rooksha
(un-unctuous, dry) Khara
(rough) Drava
(liquid) Kathina
(hard) Sara
(unstable) Sthula
(gross) Piccila
(slimy)
Prabhava
(Special Potency):
Dhatu
Affinity (Tissues
Entered):
The seven dhatus or tissues
are: Rasa (plasma, lymph), Rakta
(red blood cells), Mamsa
(muscle tissue), Meda (adipose
tissue), Ashti (bone tissue),
Majja (bone marrow, nervous
tissue
, connective tissue), Shukra
(male reproductive tissue), Artava
(female reproductive tissue)
Pharmacological
Action:
K = kapha vata samaka, pitta bardhaka, badana nasaka, dipana, pacana, hrdya, yacama nasaka, grahi, garvasaya san kicaka, vajikarana; carminative, antispasmodic, aromatic, stimulant, hemostatic, astringent, antiseptic, stomachic, germicide; oilis vascular and nervie stimulant and in large doses irritant and narcotic poison
Indications
(Uses):
K = bowel complaints such as dyspepsia, flatulence, diarrhea, vomiting, as stimulant of uterine muscular fiver used in menorrhagia and protracted labor due to defective uterine contractions. The crystalline cinnamic acid is antitubercular and often is used as injection in phthisis.
Contraindications
(Cautions):
Constituents:
essential oil, cinnamic acid, resin, tannin, sugar, mannit, starch, mucilage, ash K =bark contains cinnamaldehyde, euginal, benzaldehyde, methyl amyl ketone, phellandrene, pinene, cymene, nonyl aldehyde, linalool cumic aldehyde, caraophyllene, ester of isobutyric acid. Green leaves yield oil on distillation different from bark oil. It contains eugenol with traces of cinnamic aldeyde, pinene, and linalol
Active
Substances:
Plant Part
Used:
dried inner bark
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