Cinnamomum
By John Henry Clarke â A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
Zeylanicum and Cinnamomum Cassia. N. O. LauraceÃĻ. Tincture.
Clinical
Ascites / Caries / Constipation / DiarrhÅa / HÃĻmorrhages / Headache / Hysteria / LeucorrhÅa / Menorrhagia / Metrorrhagia
Characteristics
A leading feature of Cinnamon is hÃĻmorrhage. The hÃĻmorrhage is bright red and clear and < by any physical exertion. Cinnam. also causes gastric disturbance and hysterical attacks; pains in bones and in muscles, and great weakness as after loss of fluids. Hysterical attacks, going off with eructations; with nausea or vomiting. The symptoms are < while riding; from exertion; from talking; in afternoon and evening up to midnight. Talking = hysterical attacks. It has been used in large doses by the old school in cases of uterine cancer, and some success has been claimed for it.
Relations
It is antidoted by: Acon. It antidotes: Opium. Compare: Sil., Ipec.
11. Stomach
Nausea while riding, with gagging and vomiting of mucus.
13. Stool and Anus
DiarrhÅa < after drinking, with acidity. Long-continued constipation; stool in hard balls. HÃĻmorrhage from bowels occurring esp. after any physical exertion; blood, bright red and clear.
16. Female Sexual Organs
Menorrhagia; in females troubled with itching at nose; blood bright red < after false step or strain; blood bright red. Metrorrhagia. Repeated small hÃĻmorrhages during gestation and puerperal state; < on any exertion, lifting, straining, over-stretching arms; false step.