Cinnamon extract lowers glucose, insulin and cholesterol in people with elevated serum glucose.

Cinnamon ( ròu guì) has insulin potentiating activity, and proanthocyanidins from cinnamon prevent formation of advanced glycation end products. Some human studies were equivocal, but several have shown beneficial effects of cinnamon supplementation on circulating glucose, lipids, and/or insulin. This placebo-controlled double-blind trial tested the effects of a dried water extract of cinnamon () on circulating glucose, lipids, insulin, and insulin resistance.

Perioperative interventions to reduce chronic postsurgical pain.

Approximately 10% of patients following a variety of surgeries develop chronic postsurgical pain. Reducing chronic postoperative pain is especially important to reconstructive surgeons because common operations such as breast and limb reconstruction have even higher risk for developing chronic postsurgical pain. Animal studies of posttraumatic nerve injury pain demonstrate that there is a critical time frame before and immediately after nerve injury in which specific interventions can reduce the incidence and intensity of chronic neuropathic pain behaviors-so called "preventative analgesia.