Aromatherapy Oils - Cinnamon

Botanical name: Cinnamomum Verum / Zeylanicum
Botanical family: Lauraceae

Note: Base

Part of plant used: Leaves

Origin: The cinnamon tree is native to Indonesia but is also found in Sri Lanka, the East Indies, Antilles, Java, and Madagascar.

Description: Sharp, musky & spicy.

History: One of the ancient spices used for embalming. Cinnamon was traded between India, Egypt and Chine over 4,000 years ago.

Properties and Indications:

• Highly antiseptic
• Febrifuge - used in the Far East as a beverage to bring down fever
• One of the best preventatives and protectives against diseases and epidemics
• Combats virus's and flues - good for fumigating
• Wet, damp, mucousy chest
• Blood purifier
• Encourages lymph stimulation
• Cardiotonic - strengthening, not stimulating
• Thermoregulator - good for menopause
• Emmenagogue
• Aches and pains of the muscular system
• Helps clear excessive toxins and wastes
• Carminative
• Constipation

Personality:

• For people who lack fire and are cold, empty and hollow inside
• If lacking goals or guts
• Promotes a gentle fire in the belly

Contra-indications:

• Not to be used in pregnancy as it can bring on contractions
• Cinnamon is a powerful skin irritant

Blending:

• Cardamom, Clove, Coriander, Ginger, Grapefruit, Lavender, Orange, Pine, Rosemary, Thyme.

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