Cinnamon

Scientific: Cinnamomum zeylanicum

Family: Lauraceae

Part used: Powdered bark

Where: Matara District, Sri Lanka

Phyto-Nectar: Focused

Why

Cinnamon has a warming and calming effect on digestion and is packed with therapeutic constituents such as cinnamaldehyde and cinnamic acid that have antioxidant and free-radical scavenging properties. Cinnamon exerts a number of potential biological effects, the lowering of blood glucose, anti-cholesterolemic, analgesic, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-depressant and nervine properties to name a few.

Studies

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1472-6882-13-275

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/13880200903019234

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01480545.2017.1417995

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13205-015-0296-3

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Priyanga-Ranasinghe/publication/299357322_Health_benefits_of_Ceylon_cinnamon_Cinnamomum_zeylanicum_a_summary_of_the_current_evidence/links/570e1f2508aec783ddd063a1/Health-benefits-of-Ceylon-cinnamon-Cinnamomum-zeylanicum-a-summary-of-the-current-evidence.pdf