Cornus Florida

Dogwood. N. O. Comaceae. Tincture of fresh bark. ' — Dyspepsia. Intermittent fever. Pneumonia.

Characteristics

Hale commends Com. /. in obstinate intermittents where quinine has been abused and where the following group of symptoms is present : For days before chill sleepiness ; doggish flow of ideas ; dull, heavy headache. Paroxysms attended with nausea ; vomiting and sometimes watery or bihous diarrhoea. In the chill, cold, clammy skin ; in the fever, violent headache, with throbbing, stupor, confusion of intellect and vomiting. He also commends it in old cases of dyspepsia where the chief symptom is acid pyrosis. Cam, /., which has had a separate proving, has some very remarkable neuralgic pains in arms, chest, and trunk, and a sensation as if broken in two. It has been used successfully in a case of pneumonia on the indication of the stitches in the chest.

Relations

Compare: The other Cornels., Eup. perf., Nux, ChL, Kali c, Abies n., Abies can.

Head p. 602

Constant dizziness. — Severe headache and quick pulse and violent pains in bowels. — Fulness and pains in head with gastric disturbance ; constant tendency to sleep.

Eyes p. 602

L. eye weak, like a cloud over it.

Stomach p. 602

Drinks little and often ; hunger soon after eating ; desire for sour things, pickles, pastry, cakes, &c. — Nausea, vomiting, and violent pains in bowels; with headache. — Acid pyrosis; painful and slow digestion. — Indigestion and heartburn.

Abdomen p. 602

Violent pain in bowels with purging.

Stool and Anus p. 602

Ineffectual urging, followed by cutting in l. ribs and under scapula ; later copious stool

Urinary Organs p. 602

Difficult urination in morning in old men.

Chest p. 602

Stitches in region of l. clavicle extending towards r. side, < by taking deep breath ; constant tickling in chest compelling him to cough. with difficult expectoration ; constant dizziness ; chilliness, followed by heat with thirst and finally sweat ; drinks little and often ; hunger soon after eating (inflammation of the lungs). — Stitch in r. chest as from a knife thrust, with vertigo.— Ineffectual urging to stool, followed by cutting pains in ribs, l. side, with pain under l. scapula as if a piece of flesh were being forcibly twisted out ; later, copious stool.

Heart p. 602

Increased strength and frequency of pulse with fever heat ; pulse quick and hard. — Pain beginning in elbow, settled about heart causing feeling of pressure and palpitation.

Neck and Back p. 602

Sensation like a jerk or shock in nape of neck. — Pains at waist as if she would break in two ; pains run up whole l. side of trunk or body like lightning ; seems as if they would give her a twist while running up ; pains in elbows and wrist

Limbs p. 602

Cramps in popliteal spaces with tension in flexor muscles, also in l. arm. — Hands and feet swollen.

Upper Limbs p. 602

Neuralgic sharp pains begin in r. elbow, extending to hand and shoulder, passing down r. and then up 1. ; pain settled about heart causing feelings of pressure and palpitation; could not raise arm because of pain and lameness ; hands and feet swollen, pains of a darting, needle-like kind, very severe ; difficulty in passing water. — Pains in wrist — Numbness and stitches in wrists. — Blueness of fingers.

Sleep p. 602

Sleepy, but couldn't sleep all night

Fever p. 602

Chill with cold, clammy skin, followed by heat with thirst, and finally sweat. — Chill followed by heat with thirst, drinks often, but little at a time, then sweat ; constant giddiness ; hungry soon after eating ; desire for sour things, later for sweets. — First moderate heat, then light perspiration, ending with a crawling sort of chill, beginning in back and going upward.—- Increase of body temperature ; hot sweat, fulness in head. — Heat : with violent headache ; thirst ; hot, but moist skin ; stupor. — Sweat rolls down from her ; chilly, but warm ; cramps from sides of waist running toward pubes ; sleepy but couldn't sleep all night ; had to get up and look out of window, she was so sleepless ; could not sleep in daytime, sweating all the time.