Prunus Spinosa
Black-thorn
Abdomen
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Ascites. Cramp-like pain in bladder region; worse, walking.
Chest
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anxious, short respiration. Angina pectoris. Furious beating of
Compare
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Lauroc.; Prunus 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
Dose
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Third to sixth potency.
Eyes
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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. 612 PRUNUS SPINOSA — PSORINUM
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constriction around waist; spasmodic pains in uterus, bladder, heart, coldwater sensation in stomach, coldness extends up aesophagus; neuralgic and gouty pains).
Head
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Very valuable in certain neuralgias, anasarca, and especially cedema pedum. Ankle and foot feel sprained. Ciliary neuralgia. \Spig.; Saponin.]
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Pressing-asunder pain beneath skull. Shooting from right frontal bone through brain to occiput. Pain in right eyeball, as if it zvould burst. Piercing toothache, as if teeth were pulled out; w'orse, taking anything warm.
Heart
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dilatation of right
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worse, slightest motion.
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cough, worse at night on lying down; weak digestion, especially in elderly people); Pyrus — Mountain Ash — (irritation of
Rectum
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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 ylans, and then returns and causes pain in urethra. Neuralgic dysuria. Must press a long time before urine appears.
Respiratory
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Wheezing when walking. Oppression bf
Skin
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Herpes zoster. Dropsy. Itching on tips of fingers, as if frozen.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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