Will the real Cinnamon please stand up... Cinnamaldehyde
Adam Fikso (Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:16:30 PST)

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/