The things we will try .

 I've been hearing that cinnamon can help with diabetis and cholesterol  so I started taking some in pill form. Thats because with diabetis I cant eat enough cinnamon rolls to do the trick. Pity because thats what i hunger for every time I open the pill bottle. The down side I guess. The upside ? Well, when I burp it taste like french toast and when I fart it smells like sweet rolls. If this doesn't work, I'm going to have to raid a bakery...

I could think of a lot worse things to burp and fart. Let me know when you want to raid that bakery though, I might be willing to be your partner in crime for that, man I love me some good pastry and an excuse to break out my ninja suit!

Suzanne, we dont need ninja suits, we go as bakers. I know, I know, you galls just love any reason to break out that little black dress , right ?

i'm been taking cinnamon for a while now, i decided to start it because it's the most effective antibiotic against mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (in case that's indeed the cause of Crohn's)

ABSTRACT


Appl Environ Microbiol. 2008 Oct;74(19):5986-90. Epub 2008 Aug 1.
Antibacterial activities of naturally occurring compounds against Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis.

Wong SY, Grant IR, Friedman M, Elliott CT, Situ C.

Institute of Agri-Food and Land Use, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, David Keir Building, Stranmillis Road, Belfast BT9 5AG, United Kingdom. [email protected]
Abstract

The antibacterial activities of 18 naturally occurring compounds (including essential oils and some of their isolated constituents, apple and green tea polyphenols, and other plant extracts) against three strains of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (a bovine isolate [NCTC 8578], a raw-milk isolate [806R], and a human isolate [ATCC 43015]) were evaluated using a macrobroth susceptibility testing method. M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis was grown in 4 ml Middlebrook 7H9 broth containing 10% oleic acid-albumin-dextrose-catalase, 0.05% Tween 80 (or 0.2% glycerol), and 2 microg/ml mycobactin J supplemented with five concentrations of each test compound. The changes in the optical densities of the cultures at 600 nm as a measure of CFU were recorded at intervals over an incubation period of 42 days at 37 degrees C. Six of the compounds were found to inhibit the growth of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis. The most effective compound was trans-cinnamaldehyde, with a MIC of 25.9 microg/ml, followed by cinnamon oil (26.2 microg/ml), oregano oil (68.2 microg/ml), carvacrol (72.2 microg/ml), 2,5-dihydroxybenzaldehyde (74 microg/ml), and 2-hydroxy-5-methoxybenzaldehyde (90.4 microg/ml). With the exception of carvacrol, a phenolic compound, three of the four most active compounds are aldehydes, suggesting that the structure of the phenolic group or the aldehyde group may be important to the antibacterial activity. No difference in compound activity was observed between the three M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis strains studied. Possible mechanisms of the antimicrobial effects are discussed.

jputrition: but has it helped or made a difference?

Well, that was a much needed laugh! And I'm now totally entranced with the idea of cinnamon pills and the thought that they might make farts smell like sweet rolls. I'll go look for some (pills, not farts or sweet rolls) tomorrow! :)

So I go and google cinnamon and find this "In a study at Copenhagen University, patients given half a teaspoon of cinnamon powder combined with one tablespoon of honey every morning before breakfast had significant relief in arthritis pain after one week and could walk without pain within one month" Last month I was at my local honey dealer who gave me a jar of cinnamon and honey and it's very strong. I'll bet it's the dose mentioned above. He's an organic producer who's very into the health benefits of honey products. So tomorrow the experiment starts, let's see how it works on crohn's arthritis which has been very active for me lately.

ROFL!!!  Thanks Sniper. 

To be honest, I have not noticed much of a difference after using the cinnamon pills, but i keep taking them . . .

Sniper, I read your first post to my diabetic husband and he was ROFL also!!!  :)

Sniper...
Nah, for me, it doesn't take two days...only about 45 minutes...I boil the water with milk and the canela...but it is GOOD on the tummy!

You may also want to try a cinnamon tea as well, you can make it iced, since it is so hot in the US right now!
Oh and speaking of herbs that many people try...again, not that I am endorsing it, but just knew a LOT of people who swear by it (whatever that is worth)...is Uña de Gato...you can make a tea out of that too...I just grew up Latina...and so I know a lot of people in the community who tried it...

So in answer to your original post, yeah, the things we will try...