Laboratory of Nutrition and Physiology, Department of Chemistry and Life Science, Nihon University College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences, Kanagawa 252-0880, Japan.
School of Pharmacy, Nihon University; 7-7-1 Narashinodai, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8555, Japan.
J Tradit Complement Med. 2012 Jan;2(1):27-32. doi: 10.1016/s2225-4110(16)30067-0.
Cinnamon is one of the most important herbal drugs and has been widely used in Asia for more than 4000 years. As a folk medicine, cinnamon has been traditionally applied to the treatment of inflammatory disorders and gastric diseases. After chemical profiling of cinnamon's components, their biological activities including antimicrobial, antiviral, antioxidant, antitumor, antihypertension, antilipemic, antidiabetes, gastroprotective and immunomodulatory were reported by many investigators. As a result, current studies have been performed mostly focusing on the bioactivity of cinnamon toward the recently generalized metabolic syndrome involving diabetes. In this review article, we provide an overview of the recent literature describing cinnamon's potential for preventing the metabolic syndrome.
肉桂是最重要的草药之一，在亚洲被广泛应用超过 4000 年。作为一种民间药物，肉桂传统上被应用于治疗炎症性疾病和胃病。肉桂成分的化学特征分析后，许多研究人员报道了其包括抗菌、抗病毒、抗氧化、抗肿瘤、降血压、降血脂、降血糖、胃保护和免疫调节在内的生物活性。因此，目前的研究主要集中在肉桂对最近普遍存在的涉及糖尿病的代谢综合征的生物活性上。在这篇综述文章中，我们概述了描述肉桂预防代谢综合征潜力的最新文献。
