Disease-A-Month
Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 327-335 , June 2009

Cinnamon (Cinnamomum Species)

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 This article was published in: Barceloux DG. Medical Toxicology of Natural Substances: Foods, Fungi, Medicinal Herbs, Toxic Plants, and Venomous Animals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. pp. 39-43. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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doi: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2009.03.003

Disease-A-Month
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