Other names and synonyms
corn-f.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
Dogwood. N. O. сornaceae. Tincture of fresh bark.
Nosology
Dyspepsia. Intermittent fever. Pneumonia.
Typical features
Hale commends сorn. f. in obstinate intermittents where quinine has been abused and where the following group of symptoms is present: For days before chill sleepiness; sluggish flow of ideas; dull, heavy headache. Paroxysms attended with nausea; vomiting and sometimes watery or bilious 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. сorn. f., 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.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: The other сornels., Eup. perf., Nux, сhi., Kali c., Abies n., Abies can.
Head, face, and ears
Constant dizziness. Severe headache and quick pulse and violent pains in bowels. Fulness and pains in head with gastric disturbance; constant tendency to sleep.
L. eye weak, like a cloud over it.
L. eye weak, like a cloud over it.
Gastrointestinal tract
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.
Violent pain in bowels with purging.
Ineffectual urging, followed by cutting in left ribs and under scapula; later copious stool.
Violent pain in bowels with purging.
Ineffectual urging, followed by cutting in left ribs and under scapula; later copious stool.
Urogenital system
Difficult urination in morning in old men.
Chest organs
Stitches in region of left clavicle extending towards right side,.
Cardiovascular system
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.
Limbs and spine
Sensation like a jerk or shock in nape of neck. Pains at waist as if she would break in two; pains run up whole left side of trunk or body like lightning; seems as if they would give her a twist while running up; pains in elbows and wrist.
Cramps in popliteal spaces with tension in flexor muscles, also in left arm. Hands and feet swollen.
Neuralgic sharp pains begin in right elbow, extending to hand and shoulder, passing down right and then up left; 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. - вlueness of fingers.
Cramps in popliteal spaces with tension in flexor muscles, also in left arm. Hands and feet swollen.
Neuralgic sharp pains begin in right elbow, extending to hand and shoulder, passing down right and then up left; 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. - вlueness of fingers.
Sleep
Sleepy, but couldn t sleep all night.
Fever
Chill with cold, clammy skin, followed by heat with thirst, and finally sweat. - сhill 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.