Cornus Circinata

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.

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

of summer.

Dulness and weight in head, esp. temples, > by coffee.—Heaviness of head, with

• ▸nausea.
• ▸—Aching and throbbing pain over |.
• ▸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.

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

sunken, indicating suffering and debility.

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

Pungent, bitter, or insipid taste; yellowish or white fur on tongue.—Ulceration of

tongue, gums, and mouth; from cold, or gastric derangement; aphthe.—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.

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

Urgency to stool; early in morning in bed; with fulness and uneasiness of

bowels; frequent but ineffectual —Diarrhcea 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 diarrhoeas with inactivity of liver.

Increased desire, but lack of power.—Frequent strong and persistent

erections during the night.—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.

Drawing pains at nape of neck.—Dull pains in back.—Sore pains in lumbar

region, < bending forward.

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.

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

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 diarrhoea;

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.

• ▸Aphthe.
• ▸Bilious headache.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Eczema.
• ▸Intermittent fever.

• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Liver derangement.
• ▸Mucous membranes, ulcers of.
• ▸Pruritus vulvee.
• ▸—Urticaria.

Characteristics—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: 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.