Cinnamon
Structure
Cinnamaldehyde Chemical Structure
- Phenyl ring attached to 3C aldehyde w/ a 2-alkene-3
Taken and Augmented From Inquiries and Ideas Initial Post
- Cinnamon and observed hydrophobic properties w/ water and tea
- INC temp (3minutes high power microwave (emerson) in water - ceramic cup) = floating, oil spills, dark tea
- DEC temp 68-72F = precipitates down like a salt/micelle, light tea
- It is as if the cinnamon takes in the flavinoids from the tea both nonpolar
- Tea alone produces an oil spill substances that floats on the surface of the cup
- Difference in ingestion? - highly unlikely, as the internal temp of the body will eventually bring it to a constant temp
- Uses - Wikipedia - so crap there is already a known interaction of antimicrobial and anticancer
- Article1
- What is a Micheal acceptor?
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- Anyways, why not other nonpolar compounds that are NATURAL? cmon scientists!! you've gotta be kidding me. it makes sense.
- Secondly, why has there been no applications from this data? - no one is looking into this?
- What is the chemical mechanism behind this proposed observed data of antimicrobial and anticancer.
- The biofilm looking interaction of cinnamon w/ tea and heat
created a slimey specled film - what the hell is going on chemically?
- Microscope - bacteria?
- Mass spectroscopy
- IR
- NMR
- Cinnamon as a Pesticide - funny i just watched a boxer nicknamed Cinnamon, coincidence: IDK
- Opens the idea of dilute pesticides - hopefully natural first - as a source of cancer drugs
- Opens the idea of incorporating dilute or augmented pesticides into antibiotics as potential R groups
- The key idea is looking at what makes them so toxic - byproducts, cellular disruption (sig trans, inhibition and etc), R and S
Michael Addition:
- Wikipedia
- Makes you wonder if its the aldehyde that it donates or the phenyl group
- What if it does both?
- Aldehydes are reactive? so it may work L-chat and even a small
amount is used up so quickly that it funnels some of the prodcuts
towards an aldehyde pathway
- Phenyl substituted may allow it to progress through the plasma membrane?
Log of 3/17/11-3/24/11
Summary
- Initial feeling of sore throat
- So have been feeling under the weather - aches, chills, elevated temp (unconfirmed fever), weakness: Thursday and Friday.
- Peak symptoms so took motrin PM during the second and third
days just to make sure the expected fever wouldn't worsen: Sunday and
Monday nights.
- Started taking tea with cinnamon Monday night
- Slight night sweats monday night - apartment temp 72 deg C
- Felt releif from aches, slight chills so wore long sleeve shirt even when temps were in 80s: Tuesday
- No sweating
- Initial coughing of yellow green sputum and wheezing when forced exhalation - signs that there is a turnaround (past experience)
- Increased ingestion of tea w/ cinnamon powder as part of diet 3-4 cups as well as increased water ingestion: Wednesday
- Forced sputum has lightened form yellow green to pale green/white
- Seems that cinnamon is doing good things - feeling of a significant difference compared from a week ago
Diet
- Diet throughout this event was limited to 1-2X a day rice and
6-8 hotdogs and quarter cup of "brocoli normandy" mixed vegtables
(cucumber, carrots, brocoli) per day
- One multivitamin supplementation a day
- Sleep was variable from 4-8 hours a day
- Beleive there was a significant change after supplementing diet with tea and cinnamon
Additional Information:
Personal Notes:
- If I develop cancer in the throat/esophagus/digestive system well this is the one source in a change of my diet
