Cinnamon for Malabsorption

Meat juice (Mamsarasa) which is not very thick, Rasala (curds churned and mixed with pepper powder and sugar), Raga (syrup which is sweet, sour and salty) and Khandava (syrup which has all the tastes, prepared with many substances), Panaka panchasara, (syrup prepared with raisins (draksha), madhuka, dates (karjura), kasmarya, and parushaka fruits all in equal quantities, cooled and added with powder of cinnamon leaves, cinnamon and cardamom etc) and kept inside a fresh mud pot, along with leav

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Ritucharya adhyaya Seasonal

Trijata and Chaturjata सकेसरं चतुजातं व प ैलं प त को प ती णो णं जतकम ् । ं रोचनद पनम ् ॥१६०॥ Twak – (Cinnamon), patra (Cinnamon leaf) and Ela – (Cardamom) together are known as Trijataka and these along with kesara from the chaturjata.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Annaswaroopa Food

Similar is the case of Anuvasana – fat enema and Matra basti – fat enema with very little oil 34-36 Anu taila जीव तीजलदे वदा जलद व से यगोपी हमं दाव व मधुक लवागु वर पु ा व ब वो पलम ् धाव यौ सरु भं ि थरे कृ महरं प ं ु ट रे णक ु ां कि ज कं कमला वलां शतगुणे द ये अ भ स वाथयेत ् ३७ तैला सं दशगण ु ं प रशो य तेन तैलं पचेत ् स ललेन दशैव वारान ् पाके पे चदशमे सममाजद ु धं न यं महागुणमुश यणुतैलमेतत ् ३८ Jivanti, Jala, Devadaru, Jalada, Twak, Sevya, Gopi (sariva), Hima, Darvi twak, Madhuka, Plava, A

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Nasya Vidhi Nasal

Palatability enhancers: cinnamon bark, saffron, Amrataka, pomegranate, cardamom, sugar candy, honey, Matulunga, alcohol, or sour drinks.

— Charaka Samhita, Kalpa Sthana — Pharmaceutical Preparations, Chapter 7: Pharmaceutical Preparations of Shyama and Trivrita (Shyamatrivrita Kalpa Adhyaya / श्यामात्रिवृत कल्प अध्याय)

Sugar candy, bamboo manna, long pepper, cardamom, cinnamon — each doubled in ratio (4:2:1:0.

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 8: Consumption and Wasting Disease Treatment (Rajayakshma Chikitsa / राजयक्ष्मचिकित्सितं)

Himalayan fir, black pepper, ginger, long pepper in doubling ratio (1:2:3:4), with cinnamon and cardamom at half ratio.

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 8: Consumption and Wasting Disease Treatment (Rajayakshma Chikitsa / राजयक्ष्मचिकित्सितं)

Milk prepared with dry ginger and daruharidra or prepared with shyama, castor root and black pepper, or prepared with cinnamon, devadaru, punarnava and dry ginger;

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 12: Edema Treatment (Shvayathu Chikitsa / श्वयथुचिकित्सा)

Thereafter to make it fragrant, add 20 gm powders each of tejapatra, cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper, couscous and iron bhasma and store in a pot lined with honey and ghee.

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 12: Edema Treatment (Shvayathu Chikitsa / श्वयथुचिकित्सा)

0 kg of jaggery and powder of trikatu and trijata (three aromatics- leaves and bark of cinnamon and cardamom).

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 12: Edema Treatment (Shvayathu Chikitsa / श्वयथुचिकित्सा)

— Tvak (cinnamon — Cinnamomum zeylanicum), Patra (cinnamon leaf — Cinnamomum tamala), Maricha (black pepper), Ela (cardamom — Elettaria cardamomum) seeds, Ajaji (cumin — Cuminum cyminum), and Vamshalochana (bamboo manna — Bambusa arundinacea) should also be included.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 3: Churnakalpana (Powder Preparations)

Tvak (cinnamon — Cinnamomum zeylanicum) should be one Karsha.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 3: Churnakalpana (Powder Preparations)

Ela (cardamom) and Tvak (cinnamon) should each be half a Karsha.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 3: Churnakalpana (Powder Preparations)

Vyosha (Trikatu), Ela (cardamom), Maricha (black pepper), and Tvak (cinnamon) each three Pala separately.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 4: Gutikakalpana (Tablet/Pill Preparations)

— Trisugandha (three aromatics: cinnamon, cardamom, and cinnamon leaf) three Shana each, and jaggery twenty Karsha.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 4: Gutikakalpana (Tablet/Pill Preparations)

Equal parts of sita (sugar), ajagandhaa, tvak (cinnamon), chiri, vidari, and trivrit, licked with honey and ghee, pacify thirst, burning, and fever (verse 16).

— Sushruta Samhita, Sutra Sthana, Chapter 44: Virechana-dravya-vikalpa-vijnaniya Adhyaya - On Purgative Drug Preparations

In such cases the poisoned atmosphere should be purified by burning quantities of Laksha, Haridra, Ati-visha, Abhaya, Abda (Musta), Renuka, Ela, Dala (Teja-Patra), Valka (cinnamon), Kushtha and Priangu in the open ground.

— Sushruta Samhita, Kalpa Sthana, Chapter 3: Jangama-Visha-Vijnaniya

Extended Trivrit Preparations and Fermented Purgatives (Verses 16-45) Equal parts of sita (sugar), ajagandhaa, tvak (cinnamon), chiri, vidari, and trivrit, licked with honey and ghee, pacify thirst, burning, and fever (verse 16).

— Sushruta Samhita, Virechana-dravya-vikalpa-vijnaniya Adhyaya - On Purgative Drug Preparations

In such cases the poisoned atmosphere should be purified by burning quantities of Laksha, Haridra, Ati-visha, Abhaya, Abda (Musta), Renuka, Ela, Dala (Teja-Patra), Valka (cinnamon), Kushtha and Priangu in the open ground.

— Sushruta Samhita, Jangama-Visha-Vijnaniya