Cornus Circinata corn.

A tincture is made of the fresh bark of Cornus circinata, L'Her.

Not sufficiently known, but seems to exert a marked action on the liver and intestinal secretion.

Cinchona, Alstonia, Chel.

▶ Weakness; in morning on waking; in morning on rising, with apathy. ▶ Indolence and loss of physical energy. ▶ Disinclination to read, think or work. ▶ Depression of spirits. ▶ Peevishness. ▶ Indifference. ▶ Inability to concentrate thoughts. ▶ Confusion of idea; towards night, with increase of stupid, sleepy sensation. ▶ Forgetful of little things.

Chronic malarial troubles, with jaundice, tendency to diarrhœa or dysentery enlarged spleen, etc. ▶ General debility, with drowsiness and depression of spirits, unrefreshing sleep, etc.

Scrofulous ophthalmia and herpes of the conjunctiva, with chronic diarrhœa.

Nursing sore mouth. ▶ Aphthous stomatitis of children.

Chronic inflammation of liver, jaundice, face yellow, sunken.

Diarrhœa, dark bilious, very offensive, with sallow complexion and sunken face. ▶ Dysentery, with burning in anus and rectum and great debility. ▶ It is to be compared with Chelidonium in its hepatic symptoms and diarrhœa.

Vesicular eruptions.

Shooting through the whole brain. ▶ Aching deep in brain, under centre of skull; on waking at 6 A.M., with distention and pain in abdomen, urging to stool, pains more acute during the stool, which was thin, dark green offensive, with tenesmus and offensive flatus; tensive. ▶ Heavy pain; agg. walking, stooping or shaking head. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Fulness; in brain in morning on rising; amel. copious, thin bilious stool, after the stool tenesmus and burning at anus. ▶ Confusion; in morning on rising. ▶ Lightness. ▶ Congestion of blood to H. and face. ▶ Giddiness; on shaking head or stooping.

Pain in forehead; and vertex; with rumbling in abdomen; over right brow; over right supraorbital ridge. ▶ Pulsation from front to back part of head. ▶ Pain in temples and vertex; in T. in afternoon and evening. ▶ Throbbing pain in temples; and sides of head; gradually passing off in afternoon and night; in vertex. ▶ Heavy confused feeling in vertex, with drowsiness. ▶ Pain in occiput; deep-seated, pulsatory, and in sides of head; drawing, and in nape. ▶ Drawing sensation from occiput to nose. ▶ Scalp sore. ▶ Aggravation of an habitual scurfy eruption.

Sunken. ▶ Surrounded by dark circles. ▶ Dull and heavy, as after a debauch. ▶ Contracting feeling around them. ▶ Heavy sensation around them. ▶ Conjunctiva yellow. ▶ Balls painful; B. sore; dull feeling over them. ▶ Lids heavy.

Prickling in nasal cavity. ▶ Symptoms of coryza in morning. ▶ Face sallow; yellow. ▶ Dull and sickly expression.

Smarting and in throat. ▶ Dryness; and in throat. ▶ Tongue furred; white; yellowish. ▶ Taste bad; bitter; pungent; clammy; insipid.

Appetite impaired; small; lost. ▶ Aversion to food; and to drink; to meat and bread. ▶ Desire for sour drinks. ▶ Eructations; empty; bitter. ▶ Nausea; at 10 A.M.; at 1 P.M. ▶ Flatulent distention of S. and abdomen. ▶ Pain in pit during dinner, with distention of abdomen from wind, both amel. immediately after dinner by loose, windly, dark, bilious stool. ▶ Occasional drawing pains extending to hypogastrium. ▶ Gnawing, faint feeling. ▶ Fulness and oppression and in abdomen. ▶ Burning; and in abdomen. ▶ Heavy pulsation. ▶ Empty feeling. ▶ Faint sensation, and in abdomen. ▶ Weakness.

Rumbling. ▶ Offensive flatus. ▶ Constant working, as if all the contents were in motion. ▶ Griping, with distention; G. at 2 P.M., with ineffectual urging to stool; with rumbling, the G. agg. in umbilical region; occasional. ▶ Pain. ▶ Uneasiness; with vague pains; with fulness. ▶ Pain in umbilical region. ▶ Rumbling in hypogastrium; at 11 A.M., with griping and offensive flatus. ▶ Weight in hypogastrium.

▶ Urging to stool; at 5 A.M., with bearing-down pain in abdomen; early in morning, not amel. discharge of a few slimy lumps, with pressing and smarting at anus; on rising; but discharge of only scanty, dark and slimy fluid and offensive flatus. ▶ Loose stool, copious, with pressing-down pain in rectum; L., large, dark, with griping and tenesmus; and dark, with tenesmus and burning in anus; and bilious, offensive, five hours later another less loose and less offensive; and scanty, with burning pain in rectum; and scanty, with offensive flatus and burning at anus, also with tenesmus; and scanty, with tenesmus, griping in umbilical region, rumbling and offensive flatus; and scanty, with pressing pain in rectum, smarting at anus after the discharge, dull feeling in head, drowsiness and lassitude. ▶ Scanty, bilious, slimy, with flatus and tenesmus, during and after the stool burning pain at anus and a short distance within rectum. ▶ Scanty, with burning at anus; S. and dark, with burning pain at anus; and hard, with pressing in rectum. ▶ Dark, copious, with pressing down in rectum.

Urine scanty and red; and passed often. ▶ Strong and persistent erections frequently during the night.

Stitches, and in back; in C. and under right scapula; intermittent griping, from centre (apparently in muscles), down to hypogastrium. ▶ Bruised feeling in morning on rising, and in back. ▶ Choking sensation in upper part. ▶ Dragging down each side.

Accelerated pulsation.

Pains in back; and knees; in small of back; in lower part of back and abdomen; sore, in lumbar region, agg. bending forward. ▶ Legs weak; on walking or ascending stairs; and trembling.

Scarlet rash on breast, with itching. ▶ Prickling on arms and legs. ▶ Itching all over body; on different parts; on head and legs and nasal mucous membrane; legs, thighs and around labia; scalp, legs and feet, agg. rubbing or scratching, burning after scratching; in paroxysms, on back, legs and feet, generally in evening.

Sleepiness; by day; at 1 P.M.; amel. strong coffee, with headache; with stupid feeling; with disinclination to make any effort. ▶ Sound sleep, with frightful dreams; S. and prolonged; but unrefreshing. ▶ Restless sleep. ▶ Dreams unpleasant; frightful, waking him, with produce perspiration.

▶ Coldness, then flushes of heat; and sweat; C. and flushes of heat in alternation, followed by cold sweat. ▶ Cold hands and feet, but hot head. ▶ Flushes of heat; then sweat; to head and face. ▶ Heat of head and face; in morning on rising; on vertex; face and hands, also feet; face in morning on rising, without redness of cheeks. ▶ Sweat on slight exertion; clammy S., then chilliness.