Cinnamonum
Names: Cinnamomum zeylanicum.
Dutch: Kaneel.
Family: Lauraceae.
Botany: Cinnamomum zeylanicum originates from the island Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon, hence the name), southeast of India. It is also native to south-west India and the Tenasserim Hills of Burma. Several attempts have been made to transplant cinnamon trees to other parts of the tropic world, but they have become naturalized only on the Seychelles.
Chemistry
The essential oil of cinnamom bark (max. 4%) is dominated by the two phenylpropanoids cinnamaldehyd (3-phenyl-acrolein, 65 to 75%) and eugenol (4-(1-propene-3-yl)-2-methoxy-phenol, 5 to 10%). Other phenyl-propanoids (safrole, cinnamic acid esters), mono- and sesquiterpenes, although occurring only in traces, do significantly influence the taste of cinnamon. Another trace component relevant for the quality is 2-heptanone (methyl-n-amyl-ketone). The slime content of the bark is rather low (3%).
From cinnamon leaves, another essential oil (1%) can be obtained that consists mainly of eugenol (70 to 95%) and can be used as a substitute for clove. Small amounts (1 to 5%) of cinnamaldehyde, benzyl benzoate, linalool and ?-caryophyllene have also been found.
A completely different composition is found in the essential oil of cinnamon root bark; here, camphor (60%) dominates. This oil is not used commercially.
Source: Hering and Clarke refer to Cinnamomum Cassia. And much of the information in literature is copied over and over and is mixed.
Homeopathy
Mind
Hysteria, << talking, >> eructations, vomiting, << exhaustion, <<< loss of fluids.
Insensibility stupor Unconsiousness, coma, alternating with hysteria
Delusion left side of body parts are smaller.
General
Plethora.
Lymphatic, feeble, cachectic women, with lax tissues and languid circulation.
Bleeding (3): from nose, lung, anus; in menses, pregnancy, during and after parturition; apoplexia; haemophilia.
Body
Convulsions, spasms, after labour. Spasmodic nervous affections; epilepsy; paralysis.
Fainting, << parturition.
Vertigo, with weakness and oppression of breathing.
Stiffness of tongue.
Rheumatic catarrh.
Chest: pain, anxiety, oppression, constriction, precordial region.
Flatulency and diarrhoea. Hiccough during diarrhoea.
Male: Excessive irritability of sexual organs; cause erections. Impotence;
Menses: early, profuse, prolonged, bright red; < exertion, slightest motion, lifting, false step, injury.
Metrorrhagia: during pregnancy, after abortion, < injury, during and after parturition, exertion, false step, lifting, slightest motion, straining, injury, thunderstorm, overstretching the arms.
Pregnancy: vomiting; eclampsia. Abortion << concussion, exertion, straining, thunderstorm.
Labour: contractions severe, weak, ineffectual, false, stopping; spasms, twitching, syncope during labour; metrorrhagia, << labour, < first contractions, when the os had dilated about an inch; placenta descended with the head.
Uterus, cancer, pain, fetor.
Caries of bones; sensation of weakness in legs.
Shoulder: pain.