Cinnamomum

Cinnamon. Lauracese. 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 Zeylanicun (from Ceylon), was very rarely found in the apothecary shops of Philadelphia. Authorities. — Allen's Encyclopedia, v. 3, p. 333; E. Darwin Jones Albany, N. Y., poisoning of a child ; Ersch and Ruber; Strumpf, v. 1, p. 666; Frank, v. 2, p. 695, V. 4, p. 110; Tanner, Lancet, Oct., 1853; Hirschel's Archiv., v. 1, p. 195 ; Chamber, Br. Quart., v. 14, p. 693.

Mind

— Anxiety.

— Child screams and weeps until midnight.

││ Forgetfulness.

Sensorium

▌ Great stupor. θ Hysteria.

Vertigo with weakness and oppression of breathing.

Fainting.

Inner Head

▌ Head severely affected, with oppression of chest. θ Hysteria.

—Complained bitter-ly of headache; child, £et. 18 months.

Headache and apoplectic attacks.

* -Outer Head. — Head and face hot as an oven ; feet cold.

Sight and Eyes

• Improves weakness of vision.

— Pain from 1. eye up to vertex in a line along the middle.

Itching of the eyes.

Hearing and Ears

— Heat around 1. ear.

Smell and Nose

Frequent attacks of nosebleed; child set. 3; t. ; tough mucus from nose.

Upper Face

— Whole face turned red.

Teeth and Gums

Toothache.

Taste and Tongue

Nothing brought on the attacks more surely than talking. θ Hysteria.

Inner Mouth

Offensive taste in mouth.

Ptyalism, particularly with pain in back.

Throat

Sore throat.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions

— Canine hunger, with nausea and debility when passing the meal hour.

Want of appetite, with diarrhoea and acidity of stomach.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting

││ 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 p. 208

Hiccough with diarrhoea; want of appetite and acidity of stomach,

▌ Has a tonic effect upon stomach.

Pressure and cramps in stomach.

Hypochondria p. 208

• Obstructions or induration of liver.

Abdomen p. 208

Much flatulence, with colic and pain in uterus.

Metastasis of gout to stomach and intestines.

Stool and Rectum p. 208

Diarrhoea: 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, a^t. 3 ; t.

Urinary Organs p. 208

Retention of urine.

Male Sexual Organs p. 208

Excessive irritability of sexual organs; causes erections.

Impotence; sensation of weakness in legs.

Female Sexual Organs p. 208

Uterine pains.

▌ Menses regular every four weeks, each period, however, lasting eight days longer than usual, and followed by leucorrhoea.

▌ 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 ansemia.

▌ After a false step or a strain in loins, profuse flow of bright red blood.

▌▌ Chronic metrorrhagia.

▌ Chronic leucorrhoea.

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 208

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 the 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 the severity of after-pains.

Voice and Larynx p. 209

Hoarseness, with cough.

│ It clears the voice when muffled by secretions, scatters the phlegm, and is useful for tickling in larynx.

Respiration p. 209

Oppressed breathing with vertigo and weakness.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 209

││ 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 p. 209

▌ Great cardiac anxiety with the attacks. θ Hysteria,

│ Heart affections ; strengthens the heart.

▌ Loss of pulse during the attack. θ Hysteria.

Neck and Back p. 209

Pains in small of back, with ptyalism.

▌^'^ Lower Limbs. Sensation of weakness in feet. θ Impotence.

Pain in muscles (myalgia).

Erysipelas with ruptured vesicles on r. leg.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 209

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 p. 209

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 p. 209

Profound sleep with the attacks. θ Hysteria.

Time p. 209

Canine hunger with nausea and debility when passing the meal hour.

2 to 3 P.M. : nausea, with weakness and vomiting of mucus.

In evening : great fever. "

Child screams and cries until midnight.

Fever. • Chilliness with trembling of limbs.

— Great fever in evening.

— Transient heat with sweat.

Nervous and typhoid fevers with great impairment of digestion, vomiting, diarrhoea and exhaustion.

Attacks, Periodicity p. 210

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; leucorrhoea.

Locality and Direction p. 210

Right : ruptured vesicles on leg.

Left: heat around ear.

Sensations p. 210

Pain : from 1. eye up to vertex in a line along the 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.

Cramps : in stomach.

Constriction: of chest.

Formicating pains.

.Tickling: in larynx.

Weakness: in legs; in feet.

Heat: of head; face; around 1. ear.

Coldness: of feet.

Itching: of eyes; of nose.

Tissues p. 210

Hemorrhages, particularly uterine; too copious evacuations, exhaustion.

Bone pains, and caries.

Ascites and anasarca.

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 210

— Nausea while riding, > by getting out of the wagon, < by getting in.

While riding: nausea, with gagging and vomiting of mucus.

': Snake bites.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 210

Lymphatic, feeble, cachectic women, with lax tissues and languid circulation.

A woman advanced in years ; hysterical convulsions.

Relations p. 210

Antidoted by : Aeon, (fever and anxiety).

It antidotes: Opium.

Compare: ISilic.