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Cinnamon

Cinnamomum verum

Cinnamon appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.

Risk: moderate
Books: 47
Contexts: 3
Mentions: 527

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Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name: cinnamon
Latin name: Cinnamomum verum(ambiguous)
Identity note: Historical sources often overlap cinnamon and cassia.

Safety

moderate

Cassia cinnamon can contain coumarin; liver and anticoagulant cautions are relevant.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

NCCIH Herbs at a Glance: Cassia cinnamon can contain coumarin; liver and anticoagulant cautions are relevant.

Aliases

cinnamoncassiaCinnamomum cassiaCinnamomum verum

Cinnamon in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations, ritual uses, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Preparation

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Culpeper treats cinnamon as a perfuming spice in compound syrup, pairing it with spikenard after the boiled honey, sugar, and vinegar base is prepared.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Chapter 57

Astrology

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Agrippa gives cinnamon a Mercurial correspondence in a list of planetary plant attributions used to frame collyries, unctions, and love-medicines.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533

Page 148

Ritual

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Spence preserves a talismanic fumigation in which cinnamon is burned with incense, saffron, red sandal, laurel wood, and heliotrope twigs.

Encyclopaedia of Occultism | Lewis Spence | 1920

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Preparations and ritual uses

Perfumed compound syrup

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Culpeper's syrup is boiled from honey, sugar, and sharp vinegar, then perfumed with cinnamon and spikenard for uterine and menstrual indications in the source.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Chapter 57

Talisman fumigation

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Spence's talisman rite exposes the object to smoke from cinnamon, incense, saffron, red sandal, laurel wood, and heliotrope twigs before burial of the powder.

Encyclopaedia of Occultism | Lewis Spence | 1920

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Cinnamon Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Astrology

6 passages across 6 books; strongest source: Antient Mythology Vol 2.

Matched as cinnamon; high confidence.

Preparation

8 passages across 8 books; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.

Matched as cinnamon; high confidence.

Safety

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Liber 777.

Matched as cassia; high confidence.

Cinnamon Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

5 shown

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"...in it, and with honey and sugar, of each two pounds, sharp Vinegar four ounces, boil it to a Syrup, and perfume it with Cinnamon and Spikenard, of each three drams. *Culpeper.*] It helps the passion of the matrix, and retains it in its place, it dissolves the coldness, wind, and pains thereof: it strengthens the nerves, opens the pores, corrects the blood, it corrects and provokes the menses. You may take a spoonful of it at a time. #### *Syrupus de Betonica compositus.* Or Syrup of Bettony compound. *College.*] Take of Bettony three handfuls, Marjoram four hand..."

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Preparationalias: cinnamonhigh confidence

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"...4 myrrh 1975 conipound 1975 uutgall 19(i2 nux vomica 1975 of green soap, Hebra's.. .1143 oil of anise 1815 caraway 1817 cinnamon 1818 |iepperniint 1822 sassafras 182.5 spearmint 1823 opium 197 cctoral 1979 nellitory liWO Peruvian bark 1953 coiii|>onnd lil,5,3, 1!»54 ferrated 1954 phosphorus 1824 physostigma 1979 Phytolacca 1979 )>ine-shoot, compound.. .1923 podophyllum 1980 poke 1979 ]>oisoti oak 1988 polygonum 1980 poj'I'.V 1977 pncltly-ash berries 1990 prickly elder 1944 Pulsatilla 1980 •pyrethruni 1980 quassia 1980 i|ueen's root 1986 quillaja 1981 ■luillaya 1..."

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The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"...es. The inner rind of this tree is the part used in medicine; it is brought to us rolled up in quills, in the manner of cinnamon, and is of a spicy taste, and of a whitish colour. Its proper name is canella alba, white canel; but the druggists have accustomed themselves to call it cortex winteranus, winter's-bark. It has the same virtues with that, but in a much less degree; and they are easily known asunder, that being the whole bark of the tree, and composed of two coats; this being only the inner bark, and therefore composed only of one. It is good in weaknes..."

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Astrologyalias: cinnamonhigh confidence

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

1533

"...n, pepper-wort; from Jupiter, nutmeg; from Mars, lignum aloes; from the Sun, mastic; from Venus, saffron; from Mercury, cinnamon; and from the Moon, the myrtle. CHAPTER XLV. Of Gollyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their Virtues. Moreover, collyries and unguents, conveying the virtues of things natural and celestial to our spirit, can multiply, transmute, transfigure, and transform it accordingly, as also transpose those virtues which are in them into it; that so, it cannot act only upon its own body, but also upon that which is near it, and affect that by vi..."

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Astrologyalias: cinnamonhigh confidence

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Lewis Spence

1920

"...ith Saturn and the Sun. The consecration consists in the exposure of the talisman to the smoke of a perfume composed of cinnamon, incense, saffron, and red sandal, burnt with laurel-wood, and twigs of dessicated heliotrope, in a new chafing-dish, which must be ground into powder and buried in an isolated spot, after the operation is finished. The talisman must be afterwards encased in a satchel of bright yellow silk, which must be fastened on the breast by an interlaced ribbon pf the same material, tied in the form of a cross. In all cases the ceremony should be..."

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Preparationalias: cinnamonhigh confidence

Books Mentioning Cinnamon

Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.

47 books

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

cinnamoncassia

224 mentionscited

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

cinnamoncassia

136 mentionscited

Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton | 1621

cinnamoncassia

25 mentions

The Family Herbal

John Hill | 1755

cinnamoncassia

20 mentionscited

Encyclopaedia of Antiquities

Thomas Dudley Fosbroke | 1825

cinnamoncassia

10 mentions

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Lewis Spence | 1920

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Cinnamon in Historical Sources

Preparation

Astrology

Ritual

Preparations and ritual uses

Perfumed compound syrup

Talisman fumigation

Cinnamon Archive Contexts

Astrology

Preparation

Safety

Cinnamon Cited Excerpts

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

King's American Dispensatory

The Family Herbal

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

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