Cornus circinata
Cornus rugosa · Plant · Cornaceae
Cornus circinata is suited to debilitated, drowsy patients suffering from old malarial conditions with chronic liver and digestive disturbance. The face is sallow or jaundiced, mental energy is reduced, and appetite is poor. Mucous membrane ulcerations and bilious diarrhea complete the picture.
Key symptoms
- Chronic liver disease with jaundice and aching eyeballs
- Dark, bilious, offensive diarrhea with sallow complexion
- Aphthae and chronic ulceration of mouth, tongue, and throat
- Headache with drowsiness, nausea, and confusion of ideas
- General debility and mental torpor with great drowsiness
- Yellow or earthy skin; vesicular and urticarial eruptions
- Intermittent fever with drowsiness preceding the chill
- Acid pyrosis and painful slow digestion
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse at night
- Worse on waking
- Worse by motion of any kind
- Worse from catching cold
- Worse in summer heat
Better (amelioration)
- Better by coffee
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.
Mouth
Ulceration of tongue, gums and mouth; aphthæ. Burning in mouth, throat and stomach.
Stool
Loose, windy, dark stool, immediately after dinner. Burning in anus. Dark, bilious, offensive diarrhœa, with sallow complexion.
Skin
Vesicular eczema of face in infants, with nursing sore mouth.
Relationship
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).
Dose
Tincture to sixth attenuation.
Round-leaved Cornel. Green osier. N. O. Cornaceæ. Infusion or tincture of fresh bark.
Clinical
Aphthæ. Bilious headache. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Eczema. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Liver derangement. Mucous membranes, ulcers of. Pruritus vulvæ.─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.
Phatak's chapter on Cornus circinata is available in the app.
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