Today, we have 11 Surprising benefits of Cinnamon Tea for your health. Now, Vihaba will introduce you how to make cinnamon tea and the benefits of cinnamon tea to your health.
How to make Cinnamon Tea?
To make cinnamon tea, you’ll simply simmer together cinnamon sticks and water.
INGREDIENTS
– 2 cinnamon sticks
– 2 cups water
INSTRUCTIONS
1. In a small saucepan, combine the cinnamon sticks and water. Bring the pot to a boil, then lower the heat and gently simmer for 15 minutes.
2. Remove the large cinnamon sticks with a slotted spoon or fork, then pour the tea through a strainer to catch any small pieces that might have flaked off.
3. Serve warm, with fresh lemon juice and honey, if desired. Leftover tea can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days if you want to make extra for later! You can serve it cold or reheated.
Besides, you can make tea and add a few cinnamon sticks to enhance the aroma and flavor of your tea. It’s a simple and easy way
Cinnamon tea tastes lightly sweet and spicy on its own, so you don’t have to add anything to it if you don’t want to. However, it’s also delicious with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and a drizzle of honey.
Fun Fact: Adding lemon juice to your tea will make it turn lighter in color. Watch it change from an amber red color, to a light yellow-orange color right before your eyes when you add the lemon juice!
Benefits of Cinnamon Tea
1. Fight Inflammation
Inflammation can wreak havoc on your body in many different forms, from causing aches. However, Cinnamon tea has anti-inflammatory properties that can help you relax and calm your body (1) .
2. Get More Youthful Skin
Your skin can get many benefits from drinking cinnamon tea. The spice promotes blood flow, assisting new cell turnover that your skin looking radiant and young. Besides, You can also mix ground cinnamon with yogurt to create an easy, exfoliating mask.(2)
3. Boost Your Metabolism
Adding cinnamon tea to your diet can kick-start your metabolism for the day. Cinnamon contains manganese, which helps your body metabolize proteins and carbohydrates. Besides, Adding one teaspoon of regular ground cinnamon to your daily tea will give you 20% of your daily value of manganese! (3)
4. Improve Brain Function
Studies are finding that cinnamon might help in the fight against neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s. It may inhibit proteins that cause improper chemical signals in the brain, and it could even help stimulate new neural passages. That could also help improve daily concentration and focus, too.
5. Strengthen Your Hair
Cinnamon’s ability to promote blood flow can do wonders on your scalp, strengthening hair follicles while also removing any unpleasant odors with its intoxicating aroma. Brew a cup of cinnamon tea and let it cool down. Then, Add a tablespoon of raw honey and gently rub it into your scalp. After that, about 10 minutes, rinse thoroughly with warm water. Don’t leave it on longer than that, though: cinnamon is known to lighten hair! You can also try using apple cider vinegar on your hair.
6. Eliminate Bad Breath
The same antibacterial properties that can boost your immunity can also fend off bacteria that causes bad breath. Simply drinking the tea on a daily basis is enough to freshen your breath.
7. Help your heart.
Several studies have found that cinnamon can ease inflammation, lower blood pressure, and removing excess cholesterol from blood vessels. Specifically, cinnamaldehyde and cinnamophilin, two components in the spice, have been shown to lower blood pressure, expand vascular tissue, and reduce triglycerides and LDL (“bad cholesterol).
8. Help control your blood sugar.
Studies suggest that powdered cinnamon and cinnamon tea can both be helpful when trying to control high blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. Research has shown that cinnamon can lower serum lipids and blood glucose levels, as well as fasting plasma glucose and triglycerides. Although more research is needed before we can draw definitive conclusions, the initial results are promising.
9. May Promote Weight Loss
In medicine, cinnamon is also thought to help the body store less fat. Common thoughts are that by reducing the amount of insulin produced, cinnamon tea may also reduce blood sugar. Due to this, your body may store less fat and you will gradually lose weight. More studies are needed on the true efficacy of cinnamon in weight loss.
10. May Improve Digestion
Studies have shown a plausible improvement in gastrointestinal health in subjects who regularly consume cinnamon supplements. Cinnamon, as a digestive aid, may have a stimulating effect on gastric juices and stomach acids. As a result, this makes digestion more efficient and effective, leading to lower chances of gas, constipation, bloating, cramping, and stomach upset. Inflammation of the bowels, caused by IBS and other conditions, may also be lessened – if not avoided – by the regular intake of cinnamon tea. (4 , 5 )
11. Reduces Cold Symptoms
Antiviral, antifungal, rich in antibacterial properties, and antiseptic, cinnamon tea truly gets to work on clearing out those savage cold and flu symptoms and can get your body back to its full bloom of health in no time. Cinnamon is also a warming spice that can help clear out your sinuses and hot tea is awesome at soothing sore throats too. (6, 7 ,8)
Notice when using Cinnamon Tea
Cassia cinnamon contains a compound called coumarin, and eating too much coumarin has been linked to liver toxicity. Even just 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon per day could be too much when it comes to cassia cinnamon (depending on your body weight, according to this study), while Ceylon cinnamon seems to only have trace amounts of coumarin.
Although cinnamon tea has many benefits for your health, consider a moderate amount so as not to cause many bad effects.
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