Cornus Circinata corn.

Round-leaved Dogwood

Chronic malaria, hepatitis, jaundice. Weakness in morning. Pain in pit of stomach, with distended abdomen. Vesicular eruption associated with chronic liver disease or aphthous stomatitis.

Ulceration of tongue, gums and mouth; aphthæ. Burning in mouth, throat and stomach.

Loose, windy, dark stool, immediately after dinner. Burning in anus. Dark, bilious, offensive diarrhœa, with sallow complexion.

Vesicular eczema of face in infants, with nursing sore mouth.

Compare: Cornus alternifolia-Swamp Walnut--(Weak and tired; disturbed sleep, fever, restlessness, eczema; skin cracked; chest feels cold, as if full of ice); Cornus florida (chronic malaria; indigestion and distressing acid heartburn; general debility from loss of fluids and night sweats; neuralgic pains in arms, chest, and trunk, and sensation as if broken in two; intermittent fever, with drowsiness; feels cold, but is warm to touch; great exhaustion in intervals; general clammy sweat. Chill is preceded by drowsiness, heat is associated with drowsiness. Headache after quinine).

Tincture to sixth attenuation.

Round-leaved Cornel. Green osier. N. O. Cornaceæ. Infusion or tincture of fresh bark.

Aphthæ. Bilious headache. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Eczema. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Liver derangement. Mucous membranes, ulcers of. Pruritus vulvæ. — Urticaria.

A popular remedy for aphthous and ulcerated conditions of mucous membranes. Hale says he has seen it cure chronic ulceration of mouth and throat, which had recurred for many years. Corn. c . has had an extensive proving. It has caused liver derangement with aching eyeballs. Disturbed sleep. The symptoms are < at night; on waking; by motion of any kind; from catching cold; from summer heat; > by coffee. The fever symptoms are identical with those of Cornus f .

Compare: Nux v., Hydrast., Chi., Eup. perf., Ars.

Forgetful. — Indifferent; with drowsiness. — Indolence with loss of mental and physical energy. — Unable to concentrate attention. — Mind confused, particularly on rising in the morning. — Depression and petulance.

Dulness and weight in head, esp. temples, > by coffee. — Heaviness of head, with nausea. — Aching and throbbing pain over l. eyebrow. — Dull pains over eyeballs; unusual pulsation extending to back of head. — Pulsating headache in temples. — Headaches, with drowsiness and confusion of ideas; semi-lateral headaches; deep-seated pains under vertex; dull, heavy pains over whole head, with drowsiness, lassitude, nausea, and general sweat. — Headache; < by walking, stooping, shaking head; > by coffee.

Eyes sunken, hollow, as after a debauch; dark circles under them, conjunctiva tinged yellow. — Soreness of eyeballs; aching pains through them. — Eyeballs and lids heavy, as if pressed down by a weight; inclination to close eyes in sleep. — Herpes of lids.

Ringing in ears.

Prickling in nose and nasal bones. — Coryza early in morning.

Heat and burning in face; without redness. — Countenance yellow, or pale, sallow, and sunken, indicating suffering and debility.

Pungent, bitter, or insipid taste; yellowish or white fur on tongue. — Ulceration of tongue, gums, and mouth; from cold, or gastric derangement; aphthæ. — Sweating and burning in mouth, throat, and stomach, with desire for stool.

Thirst for cold drinks. — Eructations. — Acid pyrosis; painful and slow digestion. — Gagging as if to vomit in morning. — Nausea, with confused and heavy pain in head. — Nausea with bitter taste and aversion to all kinds of food, and desire for sour drinks. — Sense of faintness and emptiness in stomach and bowels. — Distension; burning; oppression: pulsating pain in stomach.

Chronic hepatitis and bilious derangement. — Constant working in bowels as if all in motion. — Borborygmus. — Distension > after loose stool. — Griping in umbilical region; < during stool.

Urgency to stool; early in morning in bed; with fulness and uneasiness of bowels; frequent but ineffectual. — Diarrhœa with excessive debility and nervous irritability. — Stools: dark, bilious, watery, mucous, with griping, burning, and tenesmus, nausea, drowsiness, dulness of the head, and general perspiration; dark green, thin and offensive; greenish slimy; mucous, bilious or watery; frequent and scanty; offensive flatus. — Bearing-down pains in rectum and bowels, with urgent desire for stool. — Hard, dry, scanty stool, with pressing in rectum. — Ulceration of rectum. — Bowel complaints with pains before, during, and after discharges. — Dysenteries and diarrhœas with inactivity of liver.

Frequent desire to pass water. — Urine scanty and high-coloured.

Increased desire, but lack of power. — Frequent strong and persistent erections during the night. — Pruritus.

Leucorrhœa. — Pruritus.

Frequent inclination to expand chest by taking a long breath. — Cough with sharp stitches in chest. — Dry, spasmodic cough, or tedious, chronic cough, with mucous expectoration.

Choking sensation in upper part of thorax. — Soreness of chest on rising in morning. — Stitches; bruised feeling; in chest and back. — Dragging down on each side of chest. — Shooting pains from centre of thorax to lower abdomen. — Intermittent shooting pains in chest and abdomen. — Rheumatic or neuralgic pains in chest, back, and limbs. — Fine scarlet rash on chest, with, itching.

Perceptible pulsations in chest. — Palpitation of heart. — Circulation accelerated.

Drawing pains at nape of neck. — Dull pains in back. — Sore pains in lumbar region, < bending forward.

Weakness of extremities. — Coldness of hands and feet after a loose stool.

Weakness and fatigue of arms. — Burning and itching sensation in hands and arms. — Coldness of hands following a loose stool.

Pain in r. hip while lying in bed. — Legs weak and tremulous, particularly when ascending. — Itching on legs and thighs; burning sensation in feet.

General debility and impaired mental energy, with great drowsiness; in heat of summer.

Yellow or earthy appearance of skin. — Heat of whole surface with itching, burning, or prickling sensations; < by scratching or rubbing. — Eczema, pruritus and similar affections of external genitals. — Itching in paroxysms < at night. — Dry or moist eruptions; with cough. — Vesicular eruptions; urticaria; miliaria; roseola.

Drowsiness with entire loss of mental and physical energy; heavy feeling in head; depression of spirits; tendency to perspire. — Sleep unrefreshing and disturbed by unpleasant dreams.

Chilliness, with nausea, dull pain in head, debility, and languor. — Chilly sensation, followed by transient flushing. — Flushes of heat and coldness in alternation, followed by cold perspiration. — Transient flushes of heat pervading whole body, with shooting pains through brain. — Paroxysm preceded for days by sleepiness, dull, heavy headache, sluggish flow of ideas; slight exercise causes sweat and great fatigue: during apyrexia, debility and painful diarrhœa; first moderate heat, then light sweat, ending with a crawling sort of chill; when all the stages seem aborted, and the patient says the chills amount to nothing; weak, languid, and loss of appetite. — General clammy sweat, with headache, nausea, pain in back, lassitude, and confusion of ideas.

A tincture is made of the fresh bark of Cornus circinata, L'Her.

Not sufficiently known, but seems to exert a marked action on the liver and intestinal secretion.

Cinchona, Alstonia, Chel.

▶ Weakness; in morning on waking; in morning on rising, with apathy. ▶ Indolence and loss of physical energy. ▶ Disinclination to read, think or work. ▶ Depression of spirits. ▶ Peevishness. ▶ Indifference. ▶ Inability to concentrate thoughts. ▶ Confusion of idea; towards night, with increase of stupid, sleepy sensation. ▶ Forgetful of little things.

Chronic malarial troubles, with jaundice, tendency to diarrhœa or dysentery enlarged spleen, etc. ▶ General debility, with drowsiness and depression of spirits, unrefreshing sleep, etc.

Scrofulous ophthalmia and herpes of the conjunctiva, with chronic diarrhœa.

Nursing sore mouth. ▶ Aphthous stomatitis of children.

Chronic inflammation of liver, jaundice, face yellow, sunken.

Diarrhœa, dark bilious, very offensive, with sallow complexion and sunken face. ▶ Dysentery, with burning in anus and rectum and great debility. ▶ It is to be compared with Chelidonium in its hepatic symptoms and diarrhœa.

Vesicular eruptions.

Shooting through the whole brain. ▶ Aching deep in brain, under centre of skull; on waking at 6 A.M., with distention and pain in abdomen, urging to stool, pains more acute during the stool, which was thin, dark green offensive, with tenesmus and offensive flatus; tensive. ▶ Heavy pain; agg. walking, stooping or shaking head. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Fulness; in brain in morning on rising; amel. copious, thin bilious stool, after the stool tenesmus and burning at anus. ▶ Confusion; in morning on rising. ▶ Lightness. ▶ Congestion of blood to H. and face. ▶ Giddiness; on shaking head or stooping.

Pain in forehead; and vertex; with rumbling in abdomen; over right brow; over right supraorbital ridge. ▶ Pulsation from front to back part of head. ▶ Pain in temples and vertex; in T. in afternoon and evening. ▶ Throbbing pain in temples; and sides of head; gradually passing off in afternoon and night; in vertex. ▶ Heavy confused feeling in vertex, with drowsiness. ▶ Pain in occiput; deep-seated, pulsatory, and in sides of head; drawing, and in nape. ▶ Drawing sensation from occiput to nose. ▶ Scalp sore. ▶ Aggravation of an habitual scurfy eruption.

Sunken. ▶ Surrounded by dark circles. ▶ Dull and heavy, as after a debauch. ▶ Contracting feeling around them. ▶ Heavy sensation around them. ▶ Conjunctiva yellow. ▶ Balls painful; B. sore; dull feeling over them. ▶ Lids heavy.

Prickling in nasal cavity. ▶ Symptoms of coryza in morning. ▶ Face sallow; yellow. ▶ Dull and sickly expression.

Smarting and in throat. ▶ Dryness; and in throat. ▶ Tongue furred; white; yellowish. ▶ Taste bad; bitter; pungent; clammy; insipid.

Appetite impaired; small; lost. ▶ Aversion to food; and to drink; to meat and bread. ▶ Desire for sour drinks. ▶ Eructations; empty; bitter. ▶ Nausea; at 10 A.M.; at 1 P.M. ▶ Flatulent distention of S. and abdomen. ▶ Pain in pit during dinner, with distention of abdomen from wind, both amel. immediately after dinner by loose, windly, dark, bilious stool. ▶ Occasional drawing pains extending to hypogastrium. ▶ Gnawing, faint feeling. ▶ Fulness and oppression and in abdomen. ▶ Burning; and in abdomen. ▶ Heavy pulsation. ▶ Empty feeling. ▶ Faint sensation, and in abdomen. ▶ Weakness.

Rumbling. ▶ Offensive flatus. ▶ Constant working, as if all the contents were in motion. ▶ Griping, with distention; G. at 2 P.M., with ineffectual urging to stool; with rumbling, the G. agg. in umbilical region; occasional. ▶ Pain. ▶ Uneasiness; with vague pains; with fulness. ▶ Pain in umbilical region. ▶ Rumbling in hypogastrium; at 11 A.M., with griping and offensive flatus. ▶ Weight in hypogastrium.

▶ Urging to stool; at 5 A.M., with bearing-down pain in abdomen; early in morning, not amel. discharge of a few slimy lumps, with pressing and smarting at anus; on rising; but discharge of only scanty, dark and slimy fluid and offensive flatus. ▶ Loose stool, copious, with pressing-down pain in rectum; L., large, dark, with griping and tenesmus; and dark, with tenesmus and burning in anus; and bilious, offensive, five hours later another less loose and less offensive; and scanty, with burning pain in rectum; and scanty, with offensive flatus and burning at anus, also with tenesmus; and scanty, with tenesmus, griping in umbilical region, rumbling and offensive flatus; and scanty, with pressing pain in rectum, smarting at anus after the discharge, dull feeling in head, drowsiness and lassitude. ▶ Scanty, bilious, slimy, with flatus and tenesmus, during and after the stool burning pain at anus and a short distance within rectum. ▶ Scanty, with burning at anus; S. and dark, with burning pain at anus; and hard, with pressing in rectum. ▶ Dark, copious, with pressing down in rectum.

Urine scanty and red; and passed often. ▶ Strong and persistent erections frequently during the night.

Stitches, and in back; in C. and under right scapula; intermittent griping, from centre (apparently in muscles), down to hypogastrium. ▶ Bruised feeling in morning on rising, and in back. ▶ Choking sensation in upper part. ▶ Dragging down each side.

Accelerated pulsation.

Pains in back; and knees; in small of back; in lower part of back and abdomen; sore, in lumbar region, agg. bending forward. ▶ Legs weak; on walking or ascending stairs; and trembling.

Scarlet rash on breast, with itching. ▶ Prickling on arms and legs. ▶ Itching all over body; on different parts; on head and legs and nasal mucous membrane; legs, thighs and around labia; scalp, legs and feet, agg. rubbing or scratching, burning after scratching; in paroxysms, on back, legs and feet, generally in evening.

Sleepiness; by day; at 1 P.M.; amel. strong coffee, with headache; with stupid feeling; with disinclination to make any effort. ▶ Sound sleep, with frightful dreams; S. and prolonged; but unrefreshing. ▶ Restless sleep. ▶ Dreams unpleasant; frightful, waking him, with produce perspiration.

▶ Coldness, then flushes of heat; and sweat; C. and flushes of heat in alternation, followed by cold sweat. ▶ Cold hands and feet, but hot head. ▶ Flushes of heat; then sweat; to head and face. ▶ Heat of head and face; in morning on rising; on vertex; face and hands, also feet; face in morning on rising, without redness of cheeks. ▶ Sweat on slight exertion; clammy S., then chilliness.

Weakness, especially in the morning on waking, with apathy.
Indolence and loss of all physical energy.

Clinical:
Chronic malarial troubles, with jaundice; tendency to diarrhœa or dysentery, enlarged spleen, etc.
General debility, with drowsiness and depression of spirits, unrefreshing sleep, etc.

Disinclination to read, to think or work.
Depression of spirits.
Inability to concentrate the thoughts.

General heavy headache; < walking, stooping or shaking head.
Fullness in the brain in the morning on rising; > after a very thin evacuation.
Stool followed by tenesmus and burning in the anus.
Throbbing pain in the temples and sides of the head.
Heavy, confused feeling in vertex, with drowsiness.
Deep-seated pain in the occiput, almost a pulsation, and in the nape of the neck.

Dull and heavy.
Sunken.
Surrounded by dark circles.
Eyeballs sore and painful.
Lids heavy.

Clinical:
Scrofulous ophthalmia and herpes of the conjunctiva, with chronic diarrhœa.

Dry.
Tongue furred white, yellowish.

Clinical:
Nursing sore mouth.
Aphthous stomatitis of children.

Pain in the pit of the stomach during dinner, with distention of abdomen from wind, > immediately after dinner by loose, windy, dark, bilious stool.

Many flatulent pains, as if the contents of the abdomen were in motion.
A feeling of heaviness in the hypogastrium.

Clinical:
Chronic inflammation of liver; jaundice; face yellow, sunken.

Urging to stool; at 5 A. M., with bearing-down pain in abdomen; early in morning, not > discharge of a few slimy lumps, with pressing and smarting at anus; on rising, but discharge of only scanty, dark and slimy fluid and offensive flatus.
Loose stool, copious, with pressing-down pain in rectum; loose, large, dark, with griping and tenesmus; and dark, with tenesmus and burning in anus; and bilious, offensive; five hours later, another less loose and less offensive; and scanty, with burning pain in rectum; and scanty, with offensive flatus and burning at anus, also with tenesmus; and scanty, with tenesmus, griping in umbilical region, rumbling and offensive flatus; and scanty, with pressing pain in rectum, smarting at anus after the discharge, dull feeling in head, drowsiness and lassitude.
Scanty, bilious, slimy, with flatus and tenesmus during and after the stool, burning pain at anus and a short distance within rectum.
Scanty, with burning at anus; scanty and dark, with burning pain at anus; and hard, with pressing in rectum.
Dark, copious, with pressing down in rectum.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa; dark, bilious, very offensive, with sallow complexion and sunken face.
Dysentery, with burning in anus and rectum and great debility.

Coldness, then flushes of heat; and sweat; coldness and flushes of heat in alternation, followed by cold sweat.
Flushes of heat; then sweat; to head and face.
Heat of head and face; in morning on rising; on vertex.