Cinnamomum
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Cinnamon. Lauraceæ.
The symptoms marked '*' are from the Cinnamomum Cassia (from Eastern Asia), the variety in general use as a spice in this country.
The genuine Cinnamomum Zeylanicum (from Ceylon) was very rarely found in the apothecary shops of Philadelphia.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 3, p. 333 ; E. Darwin Jones, Albany, N. Y., poisoning of a child ; Ersch and Gruber ; Strumpf, vol. 1, p. 666 ; Frank, vol. 2, p. 695, vol. 4, p. 110 ; Tanner, Lancet, Oct., 1853 ; Hirschel's Archiv, vol. 1, p. 195 ; Chaumier, Br. Quart., vol. 14, p. 693.
MIND [1]
Anxiety. *
Child screams and weeps until midnight. *
Forgetfulness.
SENSORIUM [2]
Great stupor. θ Hysteria.
Vertigo, with weakness and oppression of breathing.
Fainting.
INNER HEAD [3]
Head severely affected, with oppression of chest. θ Hysteria.
Complained bitterly of headache ; child, æt. 18 months.
Headache and apoplectic attacks. *
OUTER HEAD [4]
Head and face hot as an oven ; feet cold. *
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Improves weakness of vision.
Pain from left eye up to vertex in a line along the middle. *
Itching of the eyes.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Heat around left ear. *
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Frequent attacks of nosebleed ; child æt. 3 ; t. ; tough mucus from nose.
UPPER FACE [8]
Whole face turned red. *
TEETH AND GUMS [10]
Toothache.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Nothing brought on the attacks more surely than talking. θ Hysteria.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Offensive taste in mouth.
Ptyalism, particularly with pain in back.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Sore throat.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Canine hunger, with nausea and debility when passing the meal hour. *
Want of appetite, with diarrhœa and acidity of stomach.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Belching, with colic.
Each attack subsides with a dozen eructations, soon, however, returning. θ Hysteria.
Nausea while riding, with gagging and vomiting of mucus. *
Nausea with weakness and vomiting of mucus, 2 to 3 P. M. *
Nausea and retching every day at same hour for four days. *
Chronic vomiting.
Paroxysms subside as soon as vomiting sets in. θ Hysteria.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Hiccough with diarrhœa ; want of appetite and acidity of stomach.
(OBS :) Has a tonic effect upon stomach.
Pressure and cramps in stomach.
HYPOCHONDRIA [18]
(OBS :) Obstructions or induration of liver.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Much flatulence, with colic and pain in uterus.
Metastasis of gout to stomach and intestines.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Diarrhœa : always < after drinking ; with acidity of stomach ; long-continued constipation with fever and urging to stool.
Stool first of hard balls, then soft and easily evacuated. *
Hemorrhage from bowels, occurring especially after any physical exertion, even running across the room ; blood bright red and clear ; child, æt. 3 ; t.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Retention of urine.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Excessive irritability of sexual organs ; causes erections.
Impotence ; sensation of weakness in legs.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Uterine pains.
Menses regular every four weeks, each period, however, lasting eight days longer than usual, and followed by leucorrhœa.
Menses too early and too profuse, particularly in females troubled with itching of nose and nightly restlessness, profuse flow of red blood.
Irregular menstruation.
Menorrhagia depending upon chlorosis or anemia.
After a false step or a strain in loins, profuse flow of bright red blood.
Chronic metrorrhagia.
Chronic leucorrhœa.
PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION [24]
Vomiting of pregnancy.
Hemorrhage during or after gestation from lifting, straining, overstretching the arms, or taking a false step.
Hemorrhage during pregnancy, threatening abortion.
Weak, ineffectual or false labor pains, spasms, twitchings, or syncope during labor.
Complete cessation of labor pains.
Mitigates the severity of labor.
Severe metrorrhagia in primipara after the first few pains, when the os had dilated about an inch ; placenta descended with the head.
Repeated small hemorrhages during puerperal state.
Metrorrhagia some days after delivery, unaccompanied by plethora.
Three hours after birth convulsions followed the tearing of the cord ; after subsidence of the spasms, violent hemorrhage.
To lessen severity of after pains.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
Hoarseness with cough.
(OBS :) It clears the voice when muffled by secretions, scatters the phlegm, and is useful for tickling in larynx.
RESPIRATION [26]
Oppressed breathing, with vertigo and weakness.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Pain in shoulders and side. θ Rheumatic catarrh.
Pain in chest.
Anxiety and oppression in precordial region, causing constriction of chest. θ Hysteria.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Great cardiac anxiety with attacks. θ Hysteria.
(OBS :) Heart affections ; strengthens heart.
Loss of pulse during attack. θ Hysteria.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Pains in small of back, with ptyalism.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Sensation of weakness in feet. θ Impotence.
Pain in muscles (myalgia).
Erysipelas with ruptured vesicles on right leg.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Hemorrhage from bowels after any physical exertion ; even running across room.
After a false step or a strain in loins, profuse flow of bright red blood.
Hemorrhage during or after gestation from lifting, straining, overstretching arms, or taking a false step.
NERVES [36]
Nervous weakness without fever ; syncope, hysterical attacks after loss of fluids.
Trembling of limbs.
Insensibility occurred with each attack. θ Hysteria.
Spasmodic nervous affections ; epilepsy ; paralysis.
SLEEP [37]
Profound sleep with attacks. θ Hysteria.
TIME [38]
Canine hunger with nausea and debility when passing meal hour.
From 2 to 3 P. M. : nausea, with weakness and vomiting of mucus.
In evening : great fever.
Child screams and cries until midnight.
FEVER [40]
(OBS :) Chilliness with trembling of limbs.
Great fever in evening. *
Transient heat with sweat. *
Nervous and typhoid fevers, with great impairment of digestion, vomiting, diarrhœa and exhaustion.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Frequent : attacks of nosebleed ; small hemorrhages during puerperal state.
Transient : heat with sweat.
Long-continued constipation with fever and urging to stool.
Every day at same hour for four days, nausea with retching.
Menses regular every four weeks, each period, however, lasting eight days longer than usual.
Chronic : vomiting ; metrorrhagia ; leucorrhœa.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : ruptured vesicles on leg.
Left : heat around ear ; from eye to vertex.
SENSATIONS [43]
Pain : from left eye to vertex in a line along middle ; in back ; in uterus ; in shoulders and side ; in chest ; in small of back ; in muscles ; in bones.
Anxiety : in precordial region ; in heart with hysterical attacks.
Oppression : of chest ; of respiration ; in precordial region.
Pressure : in stomach.
Aching : of teeth.
Cramps : in stomach.
Constriction : of chest.
Formicating pains.
Tickling : in larynx.
Weakness : in legs ; in feet.
Heat : of head ; face ; around left ear.
Coldness : of feet.
Itching : of eyes ; of nose.
TISSUES [44]
Hemorrhages, particularly uterine ; too copious evacuations, exhaustion.
Bone pains, and caries.
Ascites and anasarca.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Nausea while riding, > by getting out of wagon, < by getting in. *
While riding : nausea, with gagging and vomiting of mucus.
(OBS :) Snake bites.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Lymphatic, feeble, cachectic women, with lax tissues and languid circulation.
A woman advanced in years ; hysterical convulsions.
RELATIONS [48]
Antidoted by : Acon . (fever and anxiety).
It antidotes : Opium .
Compare : Silic .