Sharing 8 ways to use your Philippine cinnamon leaves: as natural and healthful flavoring to dishes like adobo, humba, lechon and in boiled foods, tea (analgesic), steam inhalation (tuob), aromatic water mixed with alcohol, essential oil, aromatic water as facial moisturizer, aroma in steamed rice, and flavored water. Click pictures for procedures. Plant your own Philippine cinnamon at home or in the farm for your own food and medicine. Only 70 seedlings are available this week. Message us! #conservation#livelihood#health
This tea was made using Philippine cinnamon bark. However, leaves can also be used for tea. Here’s how: Boil 1 liter of water. Once water is boiling, lower fire, and drop 5 leaves (torn or crushed) and simmer for 5 minutes. The tea can be taken hot or cold.
Today is the International Day of Forests. Sharing this short and simple yet powerful talk on growing a forest in our backyard to educate and inspire us. We hope you could watch it. Please consider planting the Philippine cinnamon in your home and farm for your food and medicine, and to participate in conserving the…
This is to share information on the planting protocol of the Philippine cinnamon, as published by DENR. Let’s keep on planting this precious and highly medicinal (and yum!) native tree. Be sure to plant your own Philippine cinnamon at home, as part of your container gardening, or in the ground, at home or in the…
Many thanks to DOST TUPV HIVE for funding the trip and to ever committed team Zapphire, Ramon, Cathy, TUPV Greg Crisostomo, PEMO, Negros Occidental Samuel Maja, and cinnamon farmers for their generosity. It was raining heavily the whole day, so it was very slippery. Buwis-buhay ang pagkuha ng pictures at dahon (taking pictures of the…
Sipping tea from fresh kaningag cinnamon leaves. Very fragrant! Note the lovely red color, too. Kalingag (Cinnamomum mercadoi) leaves essential oil is 87% made up of cinnamaldehyde, which protects us from hypertension. How to make this tea: boil 1.5cups of water, then lower fire once water boils. Drop 2 leaves (torn 3 ways), and simmer…
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Do you know why it is very difficult to ID the Phil cinnamon species? It is because the leaves of the same plant can vary in shape (heterophylly), and the leaves of new shoots and mature leaves of the same plant can also vary (heteroblasty). It is doubly difficult because we have very few Phil…