Cinnamon - The Best Whole Food Medicine for Anti Microbial infection

The topical use of essential oil and intake of cinnamon in patients are found to express antimicrobial effect.

The essential oil found from cinnamomum zeylanicum, in the influenza and postinfluenza bacterial pneumonia infections resisted conventional antimicrobial agents, inhibited effectively against H1N1 and HSV1 viruses.

According to the study by the Kings and St Thomas's Hospital, natural essential oils extracted from cinnamon expressed antimicrobial activity among three oils against Escherichia coli , Staphylococcus aureus , Aspergillus oryzae , and Penicillium digitatum.

Cinnamon is a spice derived from the inner bark of tree, native to South East Asia, of over 300 species of the genus Cinnamomum, belonging to the familyLauraceae, use in herbal and traditional medicine as anti-fungal and bacteria level, to improve reproductive organ, prevent flatulence and intestinal cramping, and to treat indigestion, diarrhea, bad breath, headache, migraine, etc.

Dr. Liu Q, the lead author at the Liu Q, said," cinnamon,... possessed significant antibacterial and antifungal activities against food spoilage bacteria like Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas fluorescens, pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus, harmful fungi like Aspergillus flavus".

In vitro, trans-cinnamaldehyde showed to inhibit Clostridium difficile infection to the spore-forming bacterium.

Cinnamon and its essential oil may be the natural agent in use for the prevention and treatment of microbial infection. Intake of whole herb and supplement should be taken with care. Overdoses have seen to induce toxicity.


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(1) Synergistic antimicrobial activities of natural essential oils with chitosan films by Wang L1, Liu F, Jiang Y, Chai Z, Li P, Cheng Y, Jing H, Leng X.(PubMed)
(2) Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of Spices by Liu Q1, Meng X2, Li Y3, Zhao CN4, Tang GY5, Li HB6,7.(PubMed)
(3) Antimicrobial activity of natural products against Clostridium difficile in vitro by Roshan N1, Riley TV1,2,3,4, Hammer KA1.(PubMed)
(4) Antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral effects of three essential oil blends by Brochot A1, Guilbot A1, Haddioui L2, Roques C2,3.(PubMed)