Prunus spinosa prun
General
- 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; 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 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.