Prunus Spinosa

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

Nerves:Respiratory. Orbital.
Bladder.

WORSE

Stooping.
Ascending.
Pains

causing SHORT BREATH, shooting or pressing outward; lightning like; wandering. Neuralgia. Cramp. Nerve paralysis. Compensatory effects. .................... Pains from forehead (r), to occiput. Bursting in eyeballs. Eyes feel pressed apart. Teeth feel pulled out. Cramp in bladder; he doubles up to urinate (reverse-Alu.); urine reaches glans and then goes back again. Strangury. Glans pains on urinating. Pulsating pudendum. Leucorrhœa; watery, purulent and acrid. Dropsy; cardiac; of feet. Air hunger. As of a lump below l. scapula. Heart disease. Night-sweat.

Related: Laur.

Prunus Spinosa across the other classic books

Prunus Spinosa appears in 7 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Prunus spinosa, Linn. Natural order , Rosaceæ. Common names (German), Schlehdorn, Schwarzdorn; (French), Épine noire, Prunellier. Preparation , Tincture of the buds just before flowering. Authorities. Joyous mood (curative action), 1. Joyless mood, satisfaction with nothing, 1. Morose and fretful, 1. (He goes again to…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Black-thorn Special action on the urinary organs and head. Very valuable in certain neuralgias, anasarca, and especially œdema pedum. Ankle and foot feel sprained. Ciliary neuralgia ( Spig ). Pressing-asunder pain beneath skull. Shooting from right frontal bone through brain to occiput. Pain in right eyeball, as if it…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DIRECTION of sensations, Backward FOREHEAD SHOOTING, darting like lightening, quick pains”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Blackthorn. Sloe. N. O. Rosaceæ. Tincture of buds just before flowering. Appetite, lost / Ascites / Breast, pain in / Choroiditis / Ciliary neuralgia / Cystitis / Dropsy / Dysuria / flatulent / Earache / Eyes / choroiditis / Glaucoma / Heart, affections of / Hernia / Herpes zoster / Leucorrhœa / Menorrhagia /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Sloe ; Blackthorn. Rosaceæ. The Blackthorn (Schwarzdorn) is a native of Europe, but is found in New England and southward to Pennsylvania. The tincture is prepared from the fresh flower buds. Introduced by Wahle, Archiv. für Hom., 14, 3, 169 ; and Kretschmar, Allg. Hom. Zeit., vol. 1, p. 124. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Restlessness, which does not allow one to remain quiet in one place, walks about constantly, with dyspnœa and short breathing. Heaviness of the head, also with vertigo. Pressing in the head, as if the brain were pressed out through the skull with a plug. Stitches in the scalp. Pain in the right eye as if it were torn…”

Prunus Spinosa in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Prunus Spinosa in 469 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (83), HEAD (60), ABDOMEN (43), BLADDER (43), BACK (31).

EAR - PAIN - behind ear - extending - to eye
EAR - PAIN - stitching in - behind the ear - extending - to eye
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - right side - extending to - occiput,through head
HEAD - PAIN, - extending to - occiput - right side
HEAD - PAIN, - shooting - Forehead - over eyes - 4 p.m. - extending occiput,to
EYE - PAIN - crushing
HEAD - PAIN, - shooting - Forehead - over eyes - right
HEAD - PAIN, - shooting - Forehead - right
HEAD - PAIN, - shooting - Forehead - extending,occiput,to
EYE - PAIN - periodic
EYE - PAIN - bursting
EYE - PAIN - stitching - extending backward - inward
HEAD - PAIN, - extending to - occiput
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - extending - backward
GENERALITIES - PAIN - tearing - outward
EYE - PAIN - night
HEAD - PAIN, - shooting - Forehead
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - extending - occiput,to
EYE - PAIN - motion of eyes,on
GENERALITIES - PAIN - stitching - outward

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