Plant profile · Asia
Cinnamon
The kitchen bark. Warm, sweet, and older than the jar on the shelf. Culinary amounts are the everyday form.
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Benefits and traditional uses
- Warming culinary bark
- Traditional after-meal spice
- True cinnamon and cassia are not the same plant
South Asian and later global cooking used cinnamon bark as food and a warming digestive. Cassia is the supermarket default in many places.
Precautions
- Cassia is high in coumarin — culinary pinches, not spoonfuls every day.
- Essential oil is not a casual internal remedy.
Prepare
Stick or powder in food and tea. Concentrated extracts and essential oil are another, stronger plant.
Dosage
Dosage is not provided in this prototype. A later sourced record can sit here. Do not treat any number on this site as a prescription.
Grow
Tropical evergreen tree. Buy the bark; the tree wants a wet, warm climate.
Tropical tree · Kitchen spice · Cassia is not true cinnamon
Cultural context
Character-led stories and cultural notes will live here once Maria’s research pass is in. Region on this card: South Asia.
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