Coriaria Ruscifolia

• ▸F.
• ▸H.
• ▸Lutze communicated to H.
• ▸Recorder, (x.
• ▸501) a Long Island farmer's

cure for eczema with a decoction of the leaves of this tree. His method was to give three times a

day a wineglassful for three days. Then for the next three days apply it locally or wash the part

with it; then administer it internally for another three days, and so on. He cured, thus, all his

cases in eighteen days. This was the first acquaintance Lutze had with the remedy. Later on he

• ▸made a proving (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xi.
• ▸346) on himself and another, eliciting symptoms of fever, restlessness,

and sleeplessness, skin eruptions, and emaciation. A striking symptom was a cold feeling in

chest as if full of ice. Symptoms > after walking in open air; after supper.

No ambition to do anything.—Awful, uneasy feeling, that something terrible is going

to happen.

• ▸Dull pain across forehead (esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸side) with aching in 1.
• ▸shoulder——Dull, heaving

feeling, accompanied with a nauseous and dizzy feeling.—Violent pressing headache in forehead,

lasting all day; < on motion, on stooping felt as though everything would come out.

Eruption on chin r. side, small pustules, one blind.—Ring-worm on forehead (r.

side).—Pustules on face and neck.

A little sore inside mouth became very annoying; when food came in contact with it,

or only moving the mouth in a certain direction, sticking, pricking pain—Tongue yellowish

white.

Raw feeling in throat—Raw feeling in throat, with frequent desire to clear, sensation

as though something lodged there and should come out.

Sick sensation an hour after dinner.—On waking, desire to vomit, with chills; an

hour later vomited, which gave relief, and heat followed.

• ▸Two loose evacuations in quick succession in afternoon.
• ▸—About 5 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸diarrhoea set

in, continued all night every half-hour to an hour; lasted a week, during which time Lutze lost six

• ▸pounds in weight.
• ▸—Stool scanty, hard and difficult.
• ▸—Stool hard at first, then loose.
• ▸—Stool scanty

or absent.

Cold feeling in chest, as if it were filled with cold air or ice; (lasted two days, was

very disagreeable, but did not affect respiration or heart).

• ▸Eruptions of small pustules on face and neck.
• ▸—Eruption on r.
• ▸wrist, and r.
• ▸side of

chin, small pustules, one of them blind; next day another pustule, ringworm on

forehead.—(Decoction internally and externally has cured eczema; skin cracked everywhere, esp.

where it had a fold or crease, exuding a sticky watery fluid.).

Sleep much broken and full of exciting dreams; hears all the clocks strike; hears

every little noise and sound; when once awake mind becomes active and it is difficult to get to

sleep again—Tossed and turned all night; could not get into a comfortable position.—Dreams: of

dead rats mashed to a pulp; of coitus and has an emission.—Awakes tired.—Drowsy and tired

during the day.

Towards evening felt very tired and drowsy, with heavy sensation in head; about

9.30 lay down on lounge and dropped off into a doze; awake half an hour after with a feeling as

though he wanted to vomit, and chills which continued for an hour; then he vomited, which

seemed to relieve somewhat, after which fever took the place of the chill, which abated

somewhat towards morning.

In the skin effects it compares more closely with Cornus circinata. In fever with

drowsiness and gastro-enteric disturbance it is practically identical with the other Cornels. All

three have greatly disturbed sleep.