# Cinnabaris

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Cinnb. corresponds to sycosis as well as to syphilis and to combina tions of the two. Warts 
on the prepuce (Thuj.), especially for fan-shaped warts. General ner- 
vous, uneasy sensation. Weariness, languor. Tired and prostrated, worse before eating, better when riding in 
the open air. 
General sensitiveness to touch, bones of skull, scalp, roots of hair, bridge of nose, warts bleed when touched. 
Sensation on bridge of nose as if touched with metallic substance. Uneasy creeping and pressing sensation 
about nasal bones as from wearing spectacles when not used to them. Headache with nosebleed.  
Frequent jerkings and pullings. Certain forms of ciliary neuralgia and ulceration upon a syphilitic base. Cold 
and chilly in warm room. Symptoms intermit in severity.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from rest. Better open air. Better sunshine. Better after dinner. Worse from light. Worse 
summer. Worse dampness. Worse walking. Worse night. Worse touch. Worse lying on right side, feels as if 
 
 
contents of body were being dragged over to that side. Sweat worse at noon. Headache worse after sleep.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Indolence and indisposition to mental labor.
- Forgetful.
- Fretful, easily provoked.
- Sleepless during night.
- Sensation of fullness in the head from mental application.
- Desire to be alone.
- Indolence and indisposition to mental labor.
- Forgetful.
- Fretful, easily provoked.
- Sleepless during night.
- Sensation of fullness in the head from mental application.
- Desire to be alone.

### Vertigo
- Giddiness in the morning after rising, when stooping with nausea.
- COMMENTS - The skin is much affected.
- Red ness predominates (the color of the drug).
- Red spots.
- Heat, 
redness and swelling of face, especially about eyes.
- Eruption on posterior cervical region, on inner and lower 
part of thigh with itching.
- Warts, pimples, pustules, ulcers, violent itching and pricking, especially about joints.
- Glands enlarged.
- The 
back of the neck is affected.
- Pain extending to occiput when head is thrown back.
- Pain right side of neck on 
turning head.
- Muscles seem contracted.
- Leucorrhea, discharge causes a pressure in the vagina.
- Jerking in penis, occurring during sleep.
- Tearing 
stitches in glans.
- Burn ing, sting ing, itching of corona glandis.
- Frequent hem orrhages, nosebleed, bleeding 
hemorrhoids.
- Dysenteric symptoms.
- Obstinate constipa tion, stools hard and too large.
- Protrusion of anus during stool.
- Formication as from a large worm.
- Little pimples around anus with burning and itching.
- Berridge reported this symptom cured: “Left leg feels shorter than right while walking.”  
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- Guernsey said “We are led to use this for very red and very fiery-looking ulcers, which may occur in the throat 
or on any other  part of the body.
- Ulcers in the mouth, on the legs, particularly if there be nodes on the shin -
bones.
- In very angry looking chancres.” RELATIONS - Antidoted by:  Hep., Nit -ac., Opium and Sulphur.
- Compare: (1) Hep., Camph.
- (red spots), Lach., Merc., Nit-ac.
- (2) Thuj.
- - Cinnb.
- is better than Thuj in warts on 
prepuce.
- (3) Sep.
- - warts on margin of prepuce, Ant-t.
- - warts at back of glans.
- (4) Seneg.
- has better bending 
head backward, Clem, has headache worse from same, Clem, also has vertigo on lifting head up or moving 
head, Cinnb.
- has pain in back of neck when head is thrown back.

### Head
- Congestion to head, face purple red.
- Congestion of blood to the head, worse after eating.
- Violent and 
frightful attack of headaches, better by compression of the head.
- Intense headache, he cannot raise his head 
from the p illow, relieved by external pressure.
- Dull pain in the forehead, which is cold, relieved by heat.
- Shooting pain in the left side of the head.
- Painful sensitiveness of the cranium and of the hair on being touched.
- Stupefying buzzing in the head.
- Congestion to head, face purple red.
- Congestion of blood to the head, worse after eating.
- Violent and 
frightful attack of headaches, better by compression of the head.
- Intense headache, he cannot raise his head 
from the p illow, relieved by external pressure.
- Dull pain in the forehead, which is cold, relieved by heat.
- Shooting pain in the left side of the head.
- Painful sensitiveness of the cranium and of the hair on being touched.
- Stupefying buzzing in the head.

### Eyes
- Redness of whole eye.
- Eye infections.
- Lids granulated, canthi and lids red.
- Severe shooting pain in bones of orbit, especially running from inner to 
outer canthus in the bone.
- Pains from lachrymal duct around eye to temple  from inner canthus across 
brows to ear.

### Ears
- Roaring in the ears with swelling of the face, after eating.
- Scurfy eruption in right external ear.
- Itching 
in right ear.

### Face
- Heat and swelling, mostly about the eyes.

### Mouth
- Dry mouth and throat, wakes from 
sleep, must rinse the mouth Both corners of the mouth are chapped.
- Tongue coated white with a putrid, bitter 
taste in the morning.
- Burning, constrictive sensation in the palate.
- Salivation and increased flow of urine.
- Nose - Nasal catarrh.
- Hawks stringy mucus from throat or lumpy mucus drops from the posterior sinuses.
- Discharge from the nose is acrid, foul, burning, watery or dark lumps.
- Coryza with lumps of dirty, yellow mucus 
are discharged from the posterior sinuses.
- Violent, fluent, burning coryza.
- Itching of the nose, with bleeding 
after blowing it.
- Pain about root, extending into bones on each side (Aur.).

### Throat
- Stringy mucus passed through posterior sinuses into throat.
- Dryness of mouth and throat, must rinse 
the mouth.
- Fiery-looking ulcers in mouth and throat.

### Chest
- Chest oppressed, feels contracted, relieved by stretching.
- Pain running over the ensiform cartilage 
from the seventh rib on the right side diagonally through the chest.
- Pulsating and shooting pains in the chest, 
especially when walking.
- Constitutions - Anti-sycotic and antisyphilitic.
- Heart flutters, then rushes of blood to the head.
- Kidneys - Frequent and increasing emission of watery urine, also during the night.
- Pain, as if from a sore in 
the urethra, when urinating, this pain wakes him up at night.
- Dyspnea with heat.
- Cough from tickling in the throat.
- Dry cough in single shocks, when lying down, 
better by sitting up.
- Hoarseness in the evening.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Soreness in the stomach, with dizziness and lightness in the head and tightness in the temples.
- Nausea, alleviated by belchings.
- Nausea with water brash, in the evening.
- Temperature - Pulse slower in the forepart of the day, accelerated in the eveni ng.
- Coldness and chilliness in 
the warm room.
- Heat of the body during the whole night.
- Profuse perspiration between the thighs.
- Perspiration 
most at noon.
- Flashes of heat confined to the abdomen with great flatulence, worse in the forenoon.

### Urinary & Genital
- Jerking in penis during sleep.
- Foul acrid sweat between scrotum and thighs.
- Warts on prepuce, fan-
shaped and bleed easily.
- Small red pimples on glans.
- Itching of corona glandis.
- Redness and swelling of 
prepuce, testicles enlarged, buboes, angry looking chancres.
- Syphilis, sq uamous and vesicular.
- Old hard 
chancres.
- Leucorrhea, discharge with a feeling of pressure in vagina.

### Extremities
- Sensation of lameness in all the limbs.
- Pulling and shuddering in the arms and legs.
- Pain in long 
bones when barometer lowers.
- Cold knees or joints.
- Left leg feels shorter than the right, while walking.
- Cramp 
in calves after walking.
- Pain in Achilles tendon and os calcis when walk ing.
- Nodes on shin bones.
- Pain in 
forearm from elbow down, including hands.

### Neck & Back
- Pain in back part of neck when head is thrown back , extending to occiput.
- Wrenching pains in the 
vertebrae of the neck.
- The muscles of the neck seem as if contracted.
- Tearing in the side of the back.
- Aching 
in the small of the back, as if bruised.
- Pain all over the back down to the loins.

### Skin
- Red eruptions.
- Violent itching and pricking.
- Honeycombed ulcers.
- Very fiery -red looking ulcers.
- Condyloma, easily bleeding.
- Buboes.
- Nodes on the shin bones.
- Sweat on nose.

### Sleep
- Sleepiness in the daytime and sleeplessness at night, unconquerable desire to sleep after dinner, early 
in the evening.
- Restlessness and sleeplessness at night from a constant flow of ideas changing from one thing 
to another.
- Restless sleep with vivid dreams and much talking.
- Nightmares after midnight.