Natural order. Lauraceae. Common name. Cinnamon Habitat. a small evergreen tree, native of Ceylon. Preparation. Tincture from the coarsely powdered bark.
GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS.
Through the cerebro-spinal nervous system, Cinnamon affects the non-striated muscles of the vascular system,. resulting in haemorrhages It is only useful as a homoeopathic remedy for uterine haemorrhage when the latter is very profuse and of a bright-red color. Old-school authorities regard Cinnamon as a general stimulant to the vascular and nervous systems and consider that it promotes the assimilative functions. Dr. E. Darwin Jones reports, in Allen’s Encyclopedia, in interesting case of a child where haemorrhages of clear bright blood occurred from the bowels, with epistaxis, from sipping Cinnamon tea. As Cinnamon increases labor pains and checks profuse Haemorrhage, it is sometimes used instead of Ergot for such purposes.
Compare. Erigeron, Ipecac., Millef., Sabina.
ALLEN CORSON COWPERTHWAITE was born at Cape May, New Jersey, May 3, 1848, son of Joseph C. and Deborah (Godfrey) Cowperthwaite. He attended medical lectures at the University of Iowa in 1867-1868, and was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1869. He practiced his profession first in Illinois, and then in Nebraska. In 1877 he became Dean and Professor of Materia Medica in the recently organized Homeopathic Department of the State University of Iowa, holding the position till 1892. In 1884 he accepted the chair of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Clinical Medicine in the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan. He removed to Chicago in 1892, and became Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. From 1901 he also served as president of that College. He is the author of various works, notably "Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations" (1876), "A Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (1880), of "Gynecology" (1888), and of "The Practice of Medicine " (1901).