Magic! It's traditionally ruled by the Sun, some say Mars. It's used in money drawing magic as well as love magic when it's mixed with sugar.
You can burn it, sprinkle some in your wallet, outside your door, etc. The possibilities are endless. Obviously, don't use it if you're allergic to it.
http://www.witchipedia.com/herb:cinnamon
thank you for this site, Darkmage--its a good one! I'm bookmarking it.
I purchase cinnamon essential oil to use in my massage therapy office. I have read that cinnamon can boost the immune system through inhalation, so I offer cinnamon aromatherapy to my clients, especially throughout the winter months. I put the oil in a diffuser, so they are inhaling it during the massage session.
This is another reason I'm going to up my intake of cinnamon--to boost my weakened immune system. Can't hurt anyway!
I did drink a cup of cinnamon tea last night before going to bed and it helped me to sleep better. Or at least I slept well last night--whether or not it was the cinnamon tea. I tend to have sleepless nights due to aches and pains and suffer with heart burn a lot (as we tend to eat dinner a bit too late for me). Last night was the first night in weeks that I slept the whole night through w/o any aches or pains and our temps took a huge nose dive last night--so I was a bit surprised to sleep so well.
This thread just makes me want to make cinnamon chicken curry...I've been holding it off for too long! Next on my dinner menu!
I had a chicken curry dish once at an Indian restaurant near us and it was delicious! You could taste the cinnamon in the dish.
I just posted about growing White Sage... I love that herb and use it regularly... we also grow Cinnamon... i bought it on a whim in the days where the variety of foods was starting to take off and we were aiming for a food forest...
oh, you are so lucky to be able to grow your own cinnamon trees, Linnie! Can you smell the cinnamon when you are standing near it, or is this aroma only good once you peel the bark from the tree? Do the flowers also smell? Do you use the leaves of the plant, as I read that the leaves are also good to use.
I love a pinch of cinnamon in a carrot cake or etc, but will never use great numbers of cinnamon brooms ....
carrot cake was always our daughters favorite cake since she was a kid.
A friend of mine was at a school music night... a handful of us were the usual canteen helpers at that time, so we were in the canteen taking the payment for tea and cake etc... Our friend started acting pretty wildly... just funnier than usual... we laughed at her, but it went on and on... Turns out she'd made a cinnamon cake which she'd nibbled at while it was being sliced and set out on a serving platter... she ended up getting 'stoned' from the cinnamon... she had realised early on in the cake-cooking time that she'd put 2 tablespoons instead of 2 tsp...
Oh my!!! My husband had a female friend in HS who use to react to drinking coka-cola. It made her like she was drunk. She just couldn't handle coke.
Re using the stuff, i do recall that we had a product called 'cinnamon scrub' many years (decades) ago, That was essentially a gentle moisturiser which had ground cinnamon included as an exfoliant
I have seen on one of the sites I believe were included in this thread about making cinnamon scrubs for your face. You can also buy it already made up, but it is quite expensive. However, my skin is very delicate and I can't use scrubs. I was thinking about perhaps making a cinnamon 'mask' though to see how it works on my skin. Its suppose to help with skin conditions like rosacea--which I do have, but rarely have any breakouts. In fact, I can't recall the last time I had a breakout--and I have to attribute that to the coconut oil I use as a facial cleanser and moisturizer. But, I am hopeful the cinnamon may still help with that.