Dogwood
Botanical Name: Cornus florida
Common Names and Synonyms: Boxwood, Dog Tree, Flowering Dogwood,
Virginia Dogwood
Background: The word "dogwood" comes from a custom in England
to wash dogs with a concoction made from dogwood bark to cure mange.
Bark from the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida, native to the eastern
United States) is used to relieve fever and tone up the system. The
North American Indians used the bark for tea, which produced sweating to
break a fever. During the Civil War when there was a blockade of
southern ports and quinine was not imported, dogwood bark tea was
substituted for quinine to treat malaria.
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Dogwood Bark in the Cayce Readings
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Edgar Cayce recommended dogwood as a digestive aid.
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Dogwood bark was mentioned as a medicinal agent in approximately in 48
readings between 1920 and 1935. Most of the readings prescribing
dogwood bark were given between 1922-1924.
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Various amounts of dogwood bark were recommended with the following frequency:
| 2 ounces |
26 readings |
| 1 ounce |
11 readings |
| 1/2 ounce |
5 readings |
| 1/4 ounce |
1 reading |
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Tincture or essence of dogwood bark was recommended in 1 reading (1/4 ounce).
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Dogwood bark was typically recommended with other substances in a compound.
Although a wide diversity of formulas were given, the most common
substances in mentioned in the same readings as dogwood bark are as follows:
| Tolu |
35 readings |
| Prickly Ash |
32 readings |
| Sarsaparilla |
28 readings |
| Yellow Dock |
26 readings |
| Wild Cherry |
22 readings |
| Elder Flower |
21 readings |
| Buchu Leaves |
20 readings |
| Burdock Root |
15 reading |
| Calisaya |
13 readings |
| Mandrake |
13 readings |
Cayce Quotes on Dogwood Bark
243-20
Dogwood Bark (not the outer bark, but just that
between the outer and the pulp, you see)....1/2 ounce .
4815-1
Assist in the elimination by the Dogwood and Calisaya,
which will affect directly that of the pancreas and the upper digestive
forces ...
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