Prunus spinosa

Prunus spinosa
(black-thorn)
* Special action on the urinary organs and head.
* Very valuable in certain neuralgias, anasarca, and especially oedema pedum.
* Ankle and foot feel sprained.
* Ciliary neuralgia. [Spig.]
Head
- Pressing-asunder pain beneath skull.
- Shooting from right frontal bone through brain to occiput. Pain in right eyeball, as if it
would burst.
- Piercing toothache, as if teeth were pulled out;worse, taking anything warm.
Eyes
- Ciliary neuralgia.
- Bursting pain in right eyeball shooting like lightning through the brain to occiput.
- Sudden pain in left eye as if it would burst, better by lachrymation.
- Irido-choroiditis.
- Opacity of vitreous humor.
- Eyes feel as if bursting.
Abdomen
- Ascites.
- Cramp-like pain in bladder region; worse, walking.
Rectum
- Hard, nodular stool, with rectal pain, as if angular body were pressed inward.
- Burning in anus after slimy diarrhoea.
Urine
- Tenesmus of bladder.
- Ineffectual effort to urinate.
- Hurriedly impelled to urinate; the urine seems to pass as far as glans, and then returns and
causes pain in urethra.
- Neuralgic dysuria.
- Must press a long time before urine appears.
Respiratory
- Wheezing when walking.
- Oppression of chest; anxious, short respiration.
- Angina pectoris.
- Furious beating of heart; worse, slightest motion.
Skin
- Herpes zoster.
- Dropsy.
- Itching on tips of fingers, as if frozen.
Relationship
- Compare : Lauroc.; Prumus padus-Bird- cherry-(sore throat, pressure behind sternum and
sticking pain in rectum); Prunus Virginiana-Wild Cherry-(heart tonic; relieves the flagging
and distended ventricle; irritable heart; dilatation of right heart; cough, worse at night on lying
down; weak digestion, especially in elderly people;chronic bronchitis; increases muscular
tone); Pyrus-Mountain Ash-(irritation of eyes; constriction around waist; spasmodic pains in
uterus, bladder, heart, cold-water sensation in stomach, coldness extends up oesophagus;
neuralgic and gouty pains).
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.