====== CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Cinnamomum.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Cinnamon. {{anchor:s3}}Lauraceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}The symptoms marked %%'*'%% are from the <span grade2>Cinnamomum Cassia</span> (from Eastern Asia), the variety in general use as a spice in this country.

{{anchor:s5}}The genuine <span grade2>Cinnamomum Zeylanicum</span> (from Ceylon) was very rarely found in the apothecary shops of Philadelphia.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s7}}- Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 3, p. 333; E. Darwin Jones, Albany, N. Y., <span grade2>poisoning of a child</span>; 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] ======

{{anchor:s9}}Anxiety. *\\ {{anchor:s10}}Child screams and weeps until midnight. *\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s11}}Forgetfullness.</span>

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s13}}Great stupor.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s14}}~</span> <span grade3>Hysteria.</span>\\ {{anchor:s15}}Vertigo, with weakness and oppression of breathing.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Fainting.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Head severely affected, with oppression of chest.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s19}}~</span> <span grade3>Hysteria.</span>\\ {{anchor:s20}}Complained bitterly of headache; child, aet. 18 months.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Headache and apoplectic attacks. *

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

{{anchor:s23}}Head and face hot as an oven; feet cold. *

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

{{anchor:s25}}Improves weakness of vision.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Pain from left eye up to vertex in a line along the middle. *\\ {{anchor:s27}}Itching of the eyes.

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

{{anchor:s29}}Heat around left ear. *

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s31}}Frequent attacks of nosebleed; child aet. 3; t.; tough mucus from nose.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s33}}Whole face turned red. *

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

{{anchor:s35}}Toothache.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s37}}Nothing brought on the attacks more surely than talking.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s38}}~</span> <span grade3>Hysteria.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s40}}Offensive taste in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Ptyalism, particularly with pain in back.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s43}}Sore throat.

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

{{anchor:s46}}Canine hunger, with nausea and debility when passing the meal hour. *\\ {{anchor:s47}}Want of appetite, with diarrhea and acidity of stomach.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}Belching, with colic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Each attack subsides with a dozen eructations, soon, however, returning.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}~</span> <span grade3>Hysteria.</span>\\ {{anchor:s52}}Nausea while riding, with gagging and vomiting of mucus. *\\ {{anchor:s53}}Nausea with weakness and vomiting of mucus, 2 to 3 P. M. *\\ {{anchor:s54}}Nausea and retching every day at same hour for four days. *\\ {{anchor:s55}}Chronic vomiting.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s56}}Paroxysms subside as soon as vomiting sets in.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s57}}~</span> <span grade3>Hysteria.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s59}}Hiccough with diarrhea; want of appetite and acidity of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s60}}(OBS:) Has a tonic effect upon stomach.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Pressure and cramps in stomach.

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

{{anchor:s63}}(OBS:) Obstructions or induration of liver.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s65}}Much flatulence, with colic and pain in uterus.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Metastasis of gout to stomach and intestines.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s68}}Diarrhea: always agg. after drinking; with acidity of stomach; long-continued constipation with fever and urging to stool.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Stool first of hard balls, then soft and easily evacuated. *\\ {{anchor:s70}}Hemorrhage from bowels, occurring especially after any physical exertion, even running across the room; blood bright red and clear; child, aet. 3; t.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s72}}Retention of urine.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

{{anchor:s74}}Excessive irritability of sexual organs; causes erections.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Impotence; sensation of weakness in legs.

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

{{anchor:s77}}Uterine pains.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Menses regular every four weeks, each period, however, lasting eight days longer than usual, and followed by leucorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Menses too early and too profuse, particularly in females troubled with itching of nose and nightly restlessness, profuse flow of red blood.</span>\\ {{anchor:s80}}Irregular menses.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Menorrhagia depending upon chlorosis or anemia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s82}}After a false step or a strain in loins, profuse flow of bright red blood.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s83}}Chronic metrorrhagia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Chronic leucorrhea.</span>

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

{{anchor:s88}}Vomiting of pregnancy.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s89}}Hemorrhage during or after gestation from lifting, straining, overstretching the arms, or taking a false step.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}Hemorrhage during pregnancy, threatening abortion.</span>\\ {{anchor:s91}}Weak, ineffectual or false labor pains, spasms, twitchings, or syncope during labor.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Complete cessation of labor pains.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Mitigates the severity of labor.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s94}}Severe metrorrhagia in primipara after the first few pains, when the os had dilated about an inch; placenta descended with the head.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s95}}Repeated small hemorrhages during puerperal state.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s96}}Metrorrhagia some days after delivery, unaccompanied by plethora.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Three hours after birth convulsions followed the tearing of the cord; after subsidence of the spasms, violent hemorrhage.</span>\\ {{anchor:s98}}To lessen severity of after pains.

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

{{anchor:s101}}Hoarseness with cough.\\ {{anchor:s102}}(OBS:) It clears the voice when muffled by secretions, scatters the phlegm, and is useful for tickling in larynx.

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

{{anchor:s104}}Oppressed breathing, with vertigo and weakness.

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s106}}Pain in shoulders and side.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s107}}~</span> <span grade2>Rheumatic catarrh.</span>\\ {{anchor:s108}}Pain in chest.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Anxiety and oppression in precordial region, causing constriction of chest.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s110}}~</span> <span grade3>Hysteria.</span>

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s112}}Great cardiac anxiety with attacks.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s113}}~</span> <span grade3>Hysteria.</span>\\ {{anchor:s114}}(OBS:) Heart affections; strengthens heart.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s115}}Loss of pulse during attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s116}}~</span> <span grade3>Hysteria.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s118}}Pains in small of back, with ptyalism.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s120}}Sensation of weakness in feet. <span sbita>{{anchor:s121}}~</span> Impotence.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Pain in muscles (myalgia).\\ {{anchor:s123}}Erysipelas with ruptured vesicles on right leg.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s127}}Hemorrhage from bowels after any physical exertion; even running across room.\\ {{anchor:s128}}After a false step or a strain in loins, profuse flow of bright red blood.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Hemorrhage during or after gestation from lifting, straining, overstretching arms, or taking a false step.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s131}}Nervous weakness without fever; syncope, hysterical attacks after loss of fluids.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Trembling of limbs.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s133}}Insensibility occurred with each attack.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s134}}~</span> <span grade2>Hysteria.</span>\\ {{anchor:s135}}Spasmodic nervous affections; epilepsy; paralysis.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s137}}Profound sleep with attacks. <span sbita>{{anchor:s138}}~</span> Hysteria.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s140}}Canine hunger with nausea and debility when passing meal hour.\\ {{anchor:s141}}From 2 to 3 P. M.: nausea, with weakness and vomiting of mucus.\\ {{anchor:s142}}In evening: great fever.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Child screams and cries until midnight.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s145}}(OBS:) Chilliness with trembling of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Great fever in evening. *\\ {{anchor:s147}}Transient heat with sweat. *\\ {{anchor:s148}}Nervous and typhoid fevers, with great impairment of digestion, vomiting, diarrhea and exhaustion.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s150}}Frequent: attacks of nosebleed; small hemorrhages during puerperal state.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Transient: heat with sweat.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Long-continued constipation with fever and urging to stool.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Every day at same hour for four days, nausea with retching.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Menses regular every four weeks, each period, however, lasting eight days longer than usual.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Chronic: vomiting; metrorrhagia; leucorrhea.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s157}}Right: ruptured vesicles on leg.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Left: heat around ear; from eye to vertex.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s160}}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.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Anxiety: in precordial region; in heart with hysterical attacks.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Oppression: of chest; of respiration; in precordial region.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Pressure: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Aching: of teeth.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Cramps: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Constriction: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Formicating pains.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Weakness: in legs; in feet.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Heat: of head; face; around left ear.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Coldness: of feet.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Itching: of eyes; of nose.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s174}}Hemorrhages, particularly uterine; too copious evacuations, exhaustion.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Bone pains, and caries.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Ascites and anasarca.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s180}}Nausea while riding, amel. by getting out of wagon, agg. by getting in. *\\ {{anchor:s181}}While riding: nausea, with gagging and vomiting of mucus.\\ {{anchor:s182}}(OBS:) Snake bites.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s184}}Lymphatic, feeble, cachectic women, with lax tissues and languid circulation.\\ {{anchor:s185}}A woman advanced in years; hysterical convulsions.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s187}}Antidoted by: <span grade2>Acon.</span> (fever and anxiety).\\ {{anchor:s188}}It antidotes: <span grade2>Opium.</span>\\ {{anchor:s189}}Compare: <span grade2>Silic.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r818|Cinnamomum Zeylanicum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r818|Cinnamomum Zeylanicum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1884 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}