Cornus alternifolia
Plant · Cornaceae
Suited to patients with marked prostration, drowsiness, and anxious foreboding. Skin eruptions and disturbed, restless sleep full of disagreeable dreams are prominent. The cold sensation in the chest is a striking peculiar symptom. Symptoms are better after walking in open air and after supper.
Key symptoms
- Cold feeling in chest as if filled with ice
- Eruptions of small pustules on face, neck, and wrist
- Violent pressing headache in forehead, worse on motion or stooping
- Loose diarrhea occurring every half hour, lasting days
- Awful uneasy feeling that something terrible will happen
- Drowsy and tired with no ambition
- Raw feeling in throat with sensation of something lodged there
- Vomiting on waking followed by relief and subsequent heat
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse on motion
- Worse on stooping
Better (amelioration)
- Better after walking in open air
- Better after supper
Swamp Walnut. Alternate-leaved Cornel. N. O. Cornaceæ. Decoction or tincture of leaves.
Clinical
Eczema. Intermittent fever.
Characteristics
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.
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