Cornus Alternifolia
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General EN
Cornus Alternifolia.
Swamp Walnut. Alternate-leaved Cornel. N. O. Cornaceae. Decoction or tincture of leaves.
Clinical EN
Eczema. Intermittent fever.
Characteristics EN
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.
Relations EN
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.
Mind EN
No ambition to do anything.—Awful, uneasy feeling, that something terrible is going to happen.
Head EN
Dull pain across forehead (esp. r. side) with aching in l. 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.
Nose EN
Sneezing; head partially stopped up towards night.
Face EN
Eruption on chin r. side, small pustules, one blind
Ring-worm on forehead (r. side)
Pustules on face and neck.
Mouth EN
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.
Throat EN
Raw feeling in throat.—Raw feeling in throat, with frequent desire to clear, sensation as though something lodged there and should come out.
Stomach EN
Sick sensation an hour after dinner.—On waking, desire to vomit, with chills; an hour later vomited, which gave relief, and heat followed.
Abdomen EN
Dull pain r. side, in region of liver, about 11 a.m.
Stool EN
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.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Dreams of coitus and has an emission.
Respiratory Organs EN
Cough, with a feeling as though something heavy was lying on chest and throat.
Chest EN
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).
Heart EN
Dull ache in region of heart (afternoon).
Neck And Back EN
Transient pain across small of back.
Upper Limbs EN
Aching in l. shoulder.
Generalities EN
Can hardly pull one foot after the other.—Tired and drowsy.
Skin EN
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 EN
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.
Fever EN
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.