ROUND-LEAVED DOGWOOD. (Cornu, a horn, in reference to the hardness of the wood; Circinatus, to make round.).
Introduction
First proved by Dr. E. E. Marcy.
The bark from this large shrub is much more bitter than that from the Cornus florida.
Symptoms
Allen says the general action of Cornus, circ. is “not sufficiently known, but seems to exert a marked action on the liver and intestinal tract.”
It has been used in chronic inflammation of the liver, with jaundice (122) and for bilious diarrhoea and dysentery, with burning in rectum and anus (61) during the passage of the very offensive stools.
It is to be thought of in chronic malarial conditions, with weakness, jaundice, diarrhoea or dysentery and enlarged spleen (173).
The Cornus circ. patient is drowsy, depressed in spirit, and mentally and physically prostrated (155).
