Cinnamon bark oil

Our cinnamon oil is obtained by steam distillation from Cinnamomum burmanni. The part used is dried bark. Cinnamon is native to Indonesia and Sri Lanka , the tree is rust-colored and can grow up to 15 meters (45 feet), but is kept down to 6 feet for commercial reasons.

Cinnamon bark has been used for thousand years in traditional Eastern and Western medicines, such as to treat anorexia, bloating, dyspepsia with nausea, flatulent colic, and spastic conditions of the gastrointestinal tract as a component of compounds.

The therapeutic properties of this oil is diarrhea, flatulent dyspepsia and colds, low vitality, under performing kidneys, angina, palpitations, fevers, rheumatic, arthritic complaints, loss of appetite, dyspeptic complaints such as mild, spastic condition of the gastrointestinal tract and bloating.

 Cinnamon contains volatile oils (1�4%) of cinnamaldehyde (60�80%), eugenol (up to 10%) and trans-cinnamic acid (5�10%); phenolic compounds (4�10%), condensed tannins, catechins, and proanthocyanidins; monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes (pinene); calcium-monoterpenes oxalate; gum; resin, starch, sugars, and traces of coumarin. The bark contains procyanidins, phenylpropanoids and mucilage.

Cinnamon oil is non-toxic. Caution must be exercised since the cinnamaldehyde and eugenol contained in the oil could cause irritation, especially to the mucus membranes, so this oil should be used with care. Due to the emmenagogue action of the oil, it should be avoided in pregnancy.