(note: This reply is not directed *at* anyone, I'm just frustrated atm.)
Yep, that's the same study I looked at before, although there are more details now than when I first saw it. I'll reiterate what I said then... gas chromatography != human studies, and what chemicals do to cells in a petri dish != human studies. In petri dishes, we've already cured cancer, cystic fibrosis, and AIDS. Seriously... I used to work on a few research teams. I was present at all of those very exciting moments.... and you've probably never even heard they happened. Why? Because as soon as research moved from petri dish to actual human body, what we thought we'd worked out was, in order - insanely toxic, useless, and useless. In all
three cases the human studies were aborted within days/months because they weren't *going* anywhere and we could all see that.
Petri dish studies and gas chromo are the first step used for medical folks to *figure things out*. If every company that has a cinnamon
juice yanks it in a panic based on this one study (or any study like it), we won't have cinnamon juices for *years*... because that's how long it will take to get from where we are now to "what does this actually do *in the body*, not to cells in isolation?"
I'm just going to throw out this little bit of information as well, everything that Sean stated is true and it also needs to be taken into account that you are not directly inhaling pure uncut Cinnamon be it Ceylon or Cassia strains, Ceylon being True cinnamon and Cassia which is typically what you would get from the grocery store used in baking.
Now, in addition there 2 common parts of cinnamon that are used, everyone typically knows about the bark which is your sticks but also your cinnamon power, however the leaves are also used mostly for Aromatherapy applications and need to be diluted when dealing with the Pure Uncut oil. You are not
vaping pure cinnamon, it's diluted, same is true for other plant material such as Eucalyptus, of where there are also 3 types that are used. All of the nature ingredients have been used to thousands of years for one condition or another, alternative medicine, aromatherapy etc. Most of all common medicines have the bases off of these old remedy's and are still used to this day. Anything done in excess is not good for you, not even water!
I still make my own incense and use Cassia as it is stronger and I cut it with, guess what, PG, I add the cassia oil to PG and soak cones in it. I have been burning this for over 20 years and i'm still here!
Cinnamon has many health benefits. It has shown promise in the treatment of diabetes, arthritis, high cholesterol, memory function, and even leukemia and lymphoma.
Although cinnamon is full of nutrients like manganese, iron and calcium, the real source of cinnamon's healing properties are the various terpenoids (organic compounds) found in cinnamon oil.These oils are high in antioxidant proanthocyanins.
Cinnamon has been used as a treatment in traditional medicine for over five thousand years!
Although there are four main varieties of cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum), and Cassia cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia) are the most popular. Cinnamon health benefits don't seem to be significantly different from one type to another.
Ceylon cinnamon is sometimes called "true cinnamon". It is more expensive and has a sweet taste, milder than Cassia. The quills are softer and can be easily ground in a coffee grinder. Ceylon cinnamon is usually only sold in specialty stores. Ceylon cinnamon uses only the thin inner bark, and thus has a finer, less dense, and more crumbly texture.
Cassia cinnamon, the less expensive variety, is the most common cinnamon sold in supermarkets in North America. This variety grows on small trees in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Brazil, Vietnam, and Egypt. It has a darker color and the quills are harder.
These varieties are sometimes sold labeled as cinnamon, and sometimes distinguished from true cinnamon as "Chinese cinnamon," "Vietnamese cinnamon," or "Indonesian cinnamon." Cassia has a much stronger flavor than Ceylon cinnamon, is generally reddish-brown in color, hard and woody in texture, and thicker, as all of the layers of bark are used.
The fact is that anything that you take in has the potential to be harmful if done in excess. Again, you put something in a small enclosed area there are hundreds of everyday items that will kill cells of in a petrie dish!
