Prunus Spinosa

Hale says the cold infusion of Prun. virg. has been used from time

immemorial for irregular, intermittent action of the heart with deficient impulse. Hale adds

cough, sympathetic with heart troubles; dyspepsia with tendency to acidity; slow digestion; loss

of appetite and pyrosis. Excessive doses have caused "dull, heavy feeling in head" like that of the

• ▸other Prune¢.
• ▸Seymour Tayler (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxx.
• ▸80) says it is especially useful in dilatation of right

• ▸heart, whether as a result of chronic bronchitis or of mitral stenosis.
• ▸Laidlaw (N.
• ▸Y.
• ▸Med.
• ▸Times,

Xxiv. 290) gives as a particular indication: Persistent coughs acquired in winter, < at night on

lying down. Also: Spasmodic and asthmatic coughs, attacks of wheezing and whistling in trachea

and large bronchi; and cough left behind after an attack of influenza. Laidlaw's first case was

this: A delicate girl, 20, took cold, which began with coryza and in a few days passed into a

cough with scanty expectoration and soreness under sternum. Cough was persistent and

annoying at all times, but < at night. After many other remedies had failed Prunin (the

preparation Laidlaw uses), one grain every two hours, relieved in two days and cured in a week.

A recurrence some months later was rapidly cured by the same remedy. Burnett used it for weak

• ▸digestion especially of elderly people.
• ▸He regarded it as a mild form of Hcy.
• ▸ac.
• ▸The R tincture,

in 5- or 10-drop doses, has been most commonly used.

Sadness, indifference, moroseness, and ill-humour.—Restlessness, which does not

allow one to remain in one place, walks about constantly, with dyspnoea and short breathing.

Shootings in muscles.—Trembling in whole body.—Uneasiness in body, with

shortness of breath and oppression of chest.

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.

Reeled and staggered back and forth.——Heaviness in head, and vertigo.—Pressure in

head, principally in forehead, occiput, and temples.—Pressive pain beneath skull, as if skull

would be pressed through with a plug.—Pressing asunder headache so violent that he almost lost

his reason.—Sharp pains beginning in r. forehead shooting like lightning through brain and

coming out at occiput.—Painful jerks in forehead shooting back.—Violent nervous pains in head,

with loss of ideas and of consciousness.—Pressure in head mostly manifests itself from without

inwards.—Pressive pain from within out beneath upper part of r, temporal bone; from thence to

frontal bone < by external pressure.—Twinging pain: in r. temporal bone to ear, causing earache;

extending outward.—Pressive pain r. vertex as if sharp corner pressing against it—Jerking

sticking back part |. frontal bone —Painful jerking through r. hemisphere of brain, on

• ▸motion.
• ▸—Nervous out-pressing pain in occiput and occipital bone (1.
• ▸).
• ▸—Headache, as from heat

of sun.—Stitches in scalp.

• ▸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.

Pains in the eyes, as if the balls were torn out—Glaucoma.—Ciliary neuralgia; pain in

eyeball as if crushed or pressed asunder; sharp shooting pain extending through eye back into

brain, or above eye extending into, around it, or over corresponding side of head; pain

commences behind ear and shoots forward to eye, < motion, > rest; pains occasionally periodic,

may be < at night.—Pain in r. eye as if it were torn asunder; as if inner portion would be torn

out.—Itching in corners of eyes and in edges of lids.

Shootings, and burning pain, in tongue.—Tongue loaded with whitish

mucus.—Itching crawling in tip of tongue and front teeth—Mucous, clammy, or bitter taste in

mouth.

Violent nervous or wrenching pains in teeth, or else a sensation as if teeth were raised

up, and pulled out.—Pricking pains in teeth—Toothache > biting teeth together.

When eating at times seized with hunger, but a very small quantity of food

satisfies the appetite —Constant nausea, with dislike to all food, and diarrhcea.—Fulness,

distension, and oppression in pit of stomach, with shortness of breath (as after a full meal, or

from over-lifting).

Ascites. Cramp-like pain in bladder region; worse, walking.

Aching pains in hepatic region —Violent spasmodic colic, which hinders lying

on back or sides, also walking, except very slowly; > on bending thorax forwards.—Pressive

colic in epigastrium, or in r. side of abdomen, even at night.—Colic as from eating much fruit and

drinking much water after—Shootings in abdomen, which interrupt respiration.—Dropsical

swelling of abdomen, with loss of appetite, scanty urine, hard and knotty feeces.—Ascites, with

loss of appetite, scanty urine, hard, knotty stool, which is difficult to pass.—Incarcerated

flatulency pressing on bladder, causing cramps in it, and compelling one to walk

stooped.—Incarceration of flatus, with spasmodic colic, and cramps in bladder.—Shootings in r.

inguinal region, and pressure, as if a hernia were about to protrude.—Swashing like a bladder full

• ▸of liquid in fold in r.
• ▸lower abdomen.
• ▸—Very painful stitches r.
• ▸groin, > by pressure with hands.

Hard, nodular stool, with rectal pain, as if angular body were pressed inward. Burning in anus after slimy diarrhoea.

Difficult, hard, and knotty feeces.—Diarrhoea; with colic, and copious

evacuation of feecal matter; feeces consisting of mucus, with burning in rectum as from a

wound.—Much offensive water involuntarily discharged from rectum at night by one suffering

from ascites; whereupon the swelling in r. abdomen steadily decreased, and disappeared in eight

days.—Hard stool, intermitting, looking like excrement of dogs, in small lumps, with stitches in

rectum extorting cries.—Cramp-like bubbling in rectum while sitting —Pressive pain as if an

angular body were pressed inward on r. side of rectum an inch above anus.—Cramp-like pains in

rectum.—Discharge of blood from anus after evacuation.

Cramps in bladder, also at night disturbing the sleep —Tenesmus of

bladder, every half-hour for eight hours.—Burning in sphincter vesicze—Pain as from suppuration

or ulceration; < taking hold of urethra——Scanty and brown urine.—Stream of urine like a thread,

• ▸with pressure to stool.
• ▸—Stream forked.
• ▸—Hot, corrosive urine.
• ▸—Bright yellow urine, with whitish,

and sometimes a sky-blue coloured sediment.—Strangury.—Continuous urging to urinate, with

burning-biting in bladder and urethra; when the effort is made to urinate, burning in urethra, so

that one must bend double without being able to urinate.—Urgent desire to urinate; the urine only

reaches glans penis and causes there violent pains and spasms, also with tenesmus in rectum; the

pain in bladder is momentarily > as soon as the urine descends in the urethra Urine reaches

glans penis and then returns —Spasmodic retention of urine.—Tenesmus of bladder.—Violent

burning pains in urethra when endeavouring to urinate —Pain in urethra, as from excoriation, esp.

when it is touched.

• ▸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.

Discharge of a watery and pale blond from uterus. —Tickling,

itching in region of ovaries, not > by scratching and rubbing.—Metrorrhagia daily for eight to ten

weeks, becoming more and more watery the longer it lasted—Menses watery and

thin.—Catamenia too early, and too copious, with sacral pains.—Corrosive leucorrheea, staining

yellow.

Flaccidity of penis, and retraction of prepuce.—Agreeable itching in

the scrotum immediately > by scratching.

• ▸Wheezing when walking.
• ▸Oppression of chest; anxious, short respiration.
• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Furious beating of heart; worse, slightest motion.

Scraping and roughness in throat, with inclination to cough.—Cough

excited by a tickling as with a feather, or crawling in larynx and upper part of trachea; cough

renewed by holding the breath.—Wheezing cough.—Breathing difficult, caused by a sensation of

heaviness in lower part of thorax.—Oppressed, short, difficult, anxious, and panting

respiration.—Respiration is continually arrested at pit of stomach.

Pain in chest, when speaking, with weak voice.—Sensation of heaviness and

oppression in chest.—Pains under sternum, and oppression, with fulness in scrobiculus, and

distension of abdomen.—Stitching pains in fleshy parts of |. breast on deep inspiration, extends to

every side and even above I. shoulder; while walking and sitting.

Furious beating, even when at rest, and great danger of suffocation from slightest

motion; visible pulsation of carotids; face bloated and purple; lips purple; menses

suppressed.—Knocking at heart with laboured breathing.—Even very moderate motion < beats of

heart fearfully—Far advanced cedema of feet in girl, 14, with hypertrophy of heart.

Pressive pain in nape which involves whole occiput on stooping.—All parts

of back and small of back seem stiff as if he had been injured.—Stitches between shoulder-blades

on drawing a long breath.—Pain in small of back when sitting.—(Pain in small of back as if all

• ▸strength had gone.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Stitch on r.
• ▸loin to navel, taking away breath; < lying on

back.—Pain, as from ulceration in loins.—Stiffness in back and loins, as if caused by a strain.

Pressure on r. shoulder, extending to deltoid muscle, preventing one from

raising arm.—Soreness of axillary glands Tension, wrenching pains, and paralytic sensation in

• ▸various parts of arms and hands.
• ▸—Paralytic pains in |.
• ▸elbow-joint extending to wrist.
• ▸—R.
• ▸wrist:

wrenching pain during rest; pain as if bruise would form.—Sensation as if sprained in r. thumb,

hindering one from writing; cannot hold the pen.—Itching in fingers, as from chilblains.

Pains in hips at night, before midnight.—Pain in hip, < forenoon, and free

from it after midnight—Restlessness in legs, has to change the position continually.—Wrenching

pains in knees and feet—Burning sensation in legs ——Pain as from sprain |. ankle.—Pain in first

joint of big toe, as if it were pulled out.

Herpes zoster. Dropsy. Itching on tips of fingers, as if frozen.

Sleep after a meal.—Retarded sleep and sleeplessness at night.—Waking too

early. —Lassitude in morning, as after unrefreshing sleep.—Sleep full of dreams and

phantasies.—Dreams of furuncul1; or of salt things.

• ▸Shivering, esp.
• ▸in evening.
• ▸—Dry heat over the whole body, esp.
• ▸in genital

organs.—Sweat on face only, during sleep.

Prunus Virginiana.

• ▸Cerasus virginiana.
• ▸Choke-cherry.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Rosaceé.
• ▸Cold infusion or tincture of inner bark.

Solution of concentrated resinous extract, Prunin.

• ▸Acidity.
• ▸Anorexia.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Heart, weakness of; hypertrophy of; irritable.
• ▸Pyrosis.

• ▸Compare: Heart, Crateg.
• ▸, Lauro.
• ▸, Pru.
• ▸p.
• ▸Eyes, Bell.
• ▸Burning tongue, Sang.
• ▸, Polyg.

• ▸Stool like dog's, Pho.
• ▸Leucorrheea staining yellow, Agn.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸a.
• ▸, Chel.
• ▸, Kre.
• ▸, Nux, Sep.
• ▸, Thu.
• ▸,

Nit. ac.

Compare: Lauroc; Prumus 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).

Third to sixth potency.