Thank you Aaron. My prejudice against much of "new age" presentation is because it is mostly not research-based. The part that is--is another animal-- and is incorporated into contemporary advanced medicine.. Another important example is the fruit of Serenoa repens for treatment of hypertrophied prostates, enabling men to avoid surgery As Mark noted, though, it's important to note what is meant by the term "cinnamon" . ----- Original Message ----- From: "aaron floden" <aaron_floden@yahoo.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Will the real Cinnamon please stand up... Cinnamaldehyde While Mark is correct on the culinary aspects, the fungal effects and the medicinal effects are from the extract of cinnamaldehyde from several Cinnamomum species including the edible ones. I don't have the paper with me and cannot relocate it on google, but it has proven effective on several fungal problems and works by keeping the conidiophores dormant or killing them. There is plenty of imformation and numerous studies performed on antifungal and medicinal uses of Cinnamomum. As far as medicine, it a has been used in Ayurveda for a long time. It has also been shown in clinical trials to reduce blood sugar in diabetics by 18-29%. "Folk" and "newage" medicines after all come from ethnobotany and modern medicine also takes http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/