PRUNUS SPINOSA
Black-thorn
Special motion on the urinary organs and head. Very treasured in sure neuralgias, anasarca, and specifically oedema pedum. Ankle and foot experience sprained. Ciliary neuralgia (Spig).
Head.–Pressing-asunder ache under skull. Shooting from proper frontal bone via Genius to occiput. Pain in proper eyeball, as if it would burst. Piercing toothache, as if enamel had been pulled out; worse, taking whatever warm.
Eyes.–Ciliary neuralgia. Bursting ache in proper eyeball taking pictures like lightning via the talent to occiput. Sudden ache in left eye as if it would burst, higher by way of lachrymation. Irido-choroiditis. Opacity of vitreous humor. Eyes experience as if bursting.
Abdomen.–Ascites. Cramp-like ache in bladder region; worse, walking.
Rectum.–Hard, nodular stool, with rectal pain, as if angular physique have been pressed inward. Burning in anus after slimy diarrhoea.
Urine.–Tenesmus of bladder. Ineffectual effort to urinate. Hurriedly impelled to urinate; the urine looks to pass by as a ways as glans, and then returns and motives ache in urethra. Neuralgic dysuria. Must press a lengthy time earlier than urine appears.
Respiratory.–Wheezing when walking. Oppression of chest; anxious, quick respiration. Angina pectoris. Furious beating of heart; worse, slightest motion.
Skin.–Herpes zoster. Dropsy. Itching on guidelines of fingers, as if frozen.
Relationship.–Compare: Lauroc; Prumus padus-Bird–cherry–(sore throat, strain at the back of sternum and sticking ache in rectum); Prunus Virginiana-Wild Cherry–(heart tonic; relieves the flagging and distended ventricle; irritable heart; dilatation of proper heart; cough, worse at night time on mendacity down; susceptible digestion, in particular in aged people; persistent bronchitis; will increase muscular tone); Pyrus-Mountain Ash–(irritation of eyes; constriction round 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.
