Materia Medica
Prunus Spinosa
Black-thorn
Special action on the urinary organs and head. Very valuable in certain neuralgias, anasarca, and especially cedema pedum. Ankle and foot feel sprained. Ciliary neuralgia. [Spig.; Saponin.]
Head
Pressing-asunder pain beneath skull. Shoot- ing from right frontal bone through brain to occiput. Pain in right eyeball, as if it would burst. Piercing tootharhe, as if teeth were pulled out; worse, taking anything warm.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia. Bursting pain in right eye- ball, shooting like lightning through the brain to occi- put. Sudden pain in left eye as if it would burst, bet- ter 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 diarrhcea. Urine. -- Tenesmus of bladder. Ineffectual effort to urinate. Hurricdly 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 fine before urine appears.
Respiratory
Wheezing when walking. Oppres- sion of chest; anxious, short respiration. Angina pec- toris. Furious beating of heart; worse, slightest motion.
Skin
Herpes zoster. Dropsy. Itching on tips of fingers, as if frozen.
Relationships
Coinpare: Lauroc.; Prunus padus - Bird-cherry — (sore throat, pressure behind sternum and sticking pain in rectum) ; Prunus Virginiana -- Wild Cherry-- (licart tonic; relieves the flagging and dis- tended ventricle; irritable heart; dilatation of right heart; cough, worse at night on lying down; weak di- gestion, especially in elderly people) ; Pyrus - Moun- tain Ash—(irritation of eyes; constriction around waist; spasmodic pains in uterus, bladder, heart, cold- water sensation in stomach, coldness extends up cso- phagus; neuralgic and gouty pains).
Dose
Third to sixth potency.