HONEY AND CINNAMON

Why am I writing about honey and cinnamon? Well, because having recently written about the benefits of honey I came to realise that when mixed with cinnamon honey appears to take on additional benefits.

I use the word 'appears' because this is a learning curve for me and I am just at the start of my research into the seeming phenomenon of the combination.

Here are some of my findings:

WEIGHT LOSS

As *cinnamon and honey have a cleansing effect on the digestive tract, detoxifying the system, taken together they are said to help with weight loss in the ratio of 1 part cinnamon to 2 parts honey - e.g. 1 teaspoon of cinnamon/2 teaspoons honey.

Method: Pour 8 oz of boiling water over the cinnamon and leave to cool. Add honey and stir well. Drink half at bedtime and the other (refrigerated) half next morning (cold, or at room temperature). This mixture is apparently most effective on an empty stomach.

*I understand that that Ceylon Cinnamon (Cinnamomum Zeylanicum) is the purest and most potent (known as 'true' cinnamon, while some others are known as 'bastard' cinnamon!)

So tread carefully when choosing.

HONEY AND CINNAMON CURES

Is there no end to the potential benefits? Not according to Canada's Weekly World News back in January 1995, when they claimed that cinnamon and honey, combined in a whole variety of ways, could help with:

Bladder Infections (2 tablespoons cinnamon powder + 1 teaspoon honey in a glass of lukewarm water)

Toothache (paste of 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder + 5 teaspoons honey applied to aching tooth 3 times daily)

Hair Loss (hot olive oil, 1 tablespoon honey + 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder - applied for 15 minutes at bath-time before washing hair)

Indigestion (cinnamon powder sprinkled on 2 tablespoons honey taken before food to relieve acidity and help digest even heavy meals)

These are just a few of the claims made for this seemingly powerful duo. Others are said to include benefits with Heart Disease, Insect Bites, Arthritis, Cholesterol, Infertility, Influenza, Longevity, Bad Breath, Fatigue, Cancer and Hearing Loss!

But as I am very far from being an expert on this subject I'll leave further research on individual problems to those of you who wish to pursue this avenue ...

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