Cinnamomum

by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Zeylanicum and Cinnamomum Cassia. N. O. Lauraceæ. Tincture.

Clinical

Ascites / Caries / Constipation / Diarrhœa / Hæmorrhages / Headache / Hysteria / Leucorrhœa / Menorrhagia / Metrorrhagia

Characteristics

A leading feature of Cinnamon is hæmorrhage. The hæmorrhage 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

Diarrhœa < after drinking, with acidity. Long-continued constipation; stool in hard balls. Hæmorrhage 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 hæmorrhages during gestation and puerperal state; < on any exertion, lifting, straining, over-stretching arms; false step.

Cinnamomum across the other classic books

Cinnamomum appears in 6 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Cinnamomum zeylanicum, Breyne. Natural order , Lauraceæ. Common names , Cinnamon; (Fr.), Cannelle; (G.), Zimmt. Preparation , Tincture of the best bark of commerce. Authority. Dr. E. Drawin Jones, of Albany, N. Y., MSS. A lady, having prepared a tea of the bark for her own use, to check excessive menstrual flow…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Cinnamon (CINNAMOMUM) Cancer where pain and fetor are present. Best when skin is intact. Its use in hæmorrhages has abundant clinical verification. Nosebleed. Hæmorrhages from bowels, hæmoptysis, etc. A strain in loins or false step brings on a profuse flow of bright blood. Post-partum hæmorrhage . Flatulency and…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”
Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Metorrhagia after delivery. The blood is thin and pale. Sexual desire is increased.”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: cinnamon. Menses: early, profuse, prolonged and bright red (Calc., Ipec., Phos.) (Br.). Bearing down sensation (Bell., Nux-V., Sep.,)(Br.). Sexual desire is increased (Nux-V., Phos., Sulph.). PROFUSE HÆMORRHAGE FROM A STRAIN OR MIS-STEP (F.). METRORRHAGIA AFTER DELIVERY; THE BLOOD IS THIN AND PALE…”

Cinnamomum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Cinnamomum in 25 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in FEMALE GENITALIA (12), NOSE (3), MIND (2), BACK (1), CHEST (1).

NOSE - PAIN in - stitching - septum
URETHRA - PAIN - soreness - urination, - during
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - active
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - bright red
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - labor,during and after
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - bright-red
GENERALITIES - HAEMORRHAGE
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - frequent,too early,too soon
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - copious
MIND - DELUSIONS, - diminished - left side of body is smaller
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - sudden
MIND - DELUSIONS, - diminished
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - concussions
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - profuse
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - viscid,tough
STOMACH - VOMITING - pregnancy,during
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - protracted
CHEST - ANXIETY in

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