Although most people recognize that smoking is bad for children's health, one smoking trend among teenagers and adolescents that is only recendy getting the attention it deserves is the use of bidis, thin, handrolled, unfiltered cigarettes made with sundried tobacco that is wrapped in the leaf of the tendu, a plant grown in India's forests. Strong flavors such as vanilla, strawberry, cinnamon, ...

background and methodology: gentamicin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic with restricted application in man and stock due to its side effects such as nephrotoxicity and autotoxicity. cinnamon bark has antioxidant properties. this is the first study on the protective effects of the hydroalcoholic extract of cinnamon on gentamicin-induced nephrotoxicity.methods and materials: thirty-six mature femal...

this study was planned to investigate the effects of supplementation of cinnamon on fasting blood glucose levels and lipid profiles among type2 diabetic patients. 60 subjects with type 2 diabetes from both sexes (30 males and 30 females) were allocated to the intervention and control groups (30 individuals per group). t he doses of 1.5 g of cinnamon were equally administered orally in the form ...

Herbs and spices have been traditionally used for prevention and cure of many diseases. Hence, the present study was aimed to investigate the effects of aqueous and alcoholic extract of four different spices (asafoetida, ginger, cinnamon and cardamom) extracts on human breast adenocarcinoma cell line (MCF) and HEP-G2 cancer cell lines through in-vitro growth inhibitory assay. Both aqueous and a...

We give the easily recognizable name “cinnamon” and “cinnamon programming” to a new computation model intended to form a theoretical foundation for Control Network Programming (CNP). CNP has established itself as a programming paradigm combining declarative and imperative features, built-in search engine, powerful tools for search control that allow easy, intuitive, visual development of heuris...

Contact stomatitis associated with consumption of cinnamon flavoring agents is a relatively uncommon disorder. Of relevance, both clinical features and the histopathologic findings of this condition are nonspecific, and, more importantly, may resemble some other inflammatory oral mucosa disorders, eventually making diagnosis difficult. Usually a patient exhibits a combination of white and eryth...

The pharmacological mechanism of drug pair of astragali and cinnamon in shiquan dabu decoction were studied in blood deficiency and Qi deficiency modeled mice. In Qi deficiency, the drug pair of astragali and cinnamon in shiquan dabu decoction had the ability of improving the number of white blood cells and peyer patches, and T cell activity. It had no action in red blood cell number and phagoc...

Background and Objective: Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by a progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra. In recent years, there have been interests in the role of the free radical damage in PD. Cinnamon and its derivative, cinnamaldehyde acts as powerful antioxidant and antiinflammatory agents. This research focused on the effects of cinnamon extract and cinnamalde...