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Hildegard von Bingen’s Physica – translated by Priscilla Throop from the Latin

Cinnamon (cynamomum) is very hot and its power is great. It holds a bit of moisture, but its heat is so strong that it suppresses that dampness. It diminishes bad humors in one who eats it often, and provides him with good humors. [The tree whose bark is cinnamon is very hot' 'Whence, a person who is paralyzed by gout, or who has quotidian, tertian, or quartan fevers should pour good wine into a steel vessel. He should put into it wood and leaves of this tree, while they still have sap in them. After boiling it on a fire, he should drink it frequently, hot. He will be healed. One whose head is heavy and dulled, and who has difficulty breathing through his nose, should pulverize cinnamon and eat it often with a morsel of bread, or licked from his hand. It dissolves the noxious humors which had dulled his head.)