Saturday, June 6, 2009

Cinnamon can lower blood sugar

Cinnamon is a traditional Chinese medicine Edible, medicinal and cold-dispelling pain can warm the spleen and stomach, blood vessels pass. As a flavor spices, cooking meat can to remove fishy, or added to coffee, cake, jam, fruit allocated.

In addition, cinnamon diabetes eat foods, can play a warm-up and the dual role of Jiangtang. Foreign study also found that cinnamon can increase insulin levels of patients with type 2 diabetes have the role of adjuvant therapy. Malmo University in Sweden, researchers found that a spoonful of pudding lied to mitigate postprandial hyperglycemia. U.S. Department of Agriculture research report pointed out that some ingredients contained in can accelerate the decomposition of sugar 20-fold. University of California, Iowa State University and U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists study the cellular and molecular study found that cinnamon itself is similar to the activity of insulin, but also to strengthen the role of insulin in diabetes prevention and treatment has application value. Cinnamon is much more than these, the United States Human Nutrition Research Center, a study found that patients with type 2 diabetes to eat 1-6 grams of cinnamon per day, 40 days of their fasting blood glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides have decreased significantly. But the cinnamon should not be excessive or long-term use, not the best day of intake of more than 4 grams. At the same time, according to its own constitution, under the guidance in the use of pharmacists. Chinese medicine believes that heat Sim cinnamon, easy help fire, inappropriate type heat deficiency (with throat, red , constipation, yellow moss mamillata symptoms) in patients with diabetes; heat lit cough heat, wind hot-cold, bleeding and pregnant women tend to not fit for human consumption.

Eat a lot of cinnamon, in addition to medicine, but also the production of cinnamon tea, cinnamon water. 2 key will dry into 1 cup boiling water, soak about 10 minutes after the filter can, add the appropriate amount of honey taste better. Cold winter, drink a cup of cinnamon tea can warm the body temperature by Tongluo, very appropriate. As for the always cold, listless the elderly, it can be used 6 grams cinnamon,12 grams, 9 grams cistanche, plus a little amount of water decoction made of cinnamon water, often on behalf of tea used, the effect is also very good.

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