Cinnamon Health Benefits – Homeopathic Blood Sugar Control in Diabetics and Non-diabetics

What is Cinnamon?

Cinnamon is considered the oldest known spices in the world. It is a small tree grown in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Brazil, Vietnam, and Egypt. The bark is dried and rolled into cinnamon sticks, it is also either chopped or ground into a powder. Cinnamon has a sweet hot flavor that is used a lot in tea, cooking and aromatherapy. Latin names for cinnamon: Cinnamomum zeylanicum, Cinnamomum cassia. It is a great source of manganese, fiber, iron, and calcium. Cinnamon has antiviral properties and benefits for cancer patients as well.

Cinnamon and it’s health benefits for diabetics

Cinnamon has a wonderful way of significantly reducing blood sugar levels in diabetics just by adding a cinnamon stick to a cup of tea once a day. The homeopathic dosage of cinnamon is 1/2 a teaspoon a day split between 2 cups of tea. One cup in the morning and one cup mid-afternoon. Studies have shown that the active water-soluble polyphenol compound called MHCP is what causes cinnamon to mimic insulin. A study in the 2003 in the journal Diabetes Care showed that just 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon a day reduced fasting blood glucose by 18 to 29%, triglycerides by 23 to 30%, LDL cholesterol by 7 to 27%, and total cholesterol by 12 to 26%. This is old news to Ayurveda, for centuries cinnamon has been used for diabetes, colds, indigestion, and recommended for people with the kapha dosha.

Other health benefits of cinnamon

In a study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Maryland, cinnamon has been found to reduced the proliferation of leukemia and lymphoma cancer cells. Other studies show the same 1/2 teaspoon a day can help with arthritis pain, stop medication-resistant yeast infections, fights the E. coli bacteria, helps with nausea, diarrhea, and painful menstrual periods, improves energy, vitality, and circulation and simply makes everything taste better!

So don’t leave out the cinnamon stick! It not only helps balance blood sugars, it makes tea taste absolutely wonderful!