====== PRUNUS SPINOSA ======
{{anchor:s1}}Prunus Spinosa.
{{anchor:s2}}Sloe; Blackthorn. {{anchor:s3}}Rosaceae.
{{anchor:s4}}The Blackthorn (Schwarzdorn) is a native of Europe, but is found in New England and southward to Pennsylvania.
{{anchor:s5}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh flower buds.
{{anchor:s6}}Introduced by Wahle, Archiv. fr Hom., 14, 3, 169; and Kretschmar, Allg. Hom. Zeit., vol. 1, p. 124.
====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======
{{anchor:s8}}- Glaucoma, J. A. I. H., 1883-1886; Chorio-retinitis, Choroiditis, O'Connor, Norton, Norton's Ophth. {{anchor:s9}}Therap., p. 146; Affection of heart, Kurtz, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 449; Sprained ankle and respiratory difficulty, Lippe, N. E. M. G., vol. 10, p. 456; Dropsy, Hartmann, Müller, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 354.
====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======
{{anchor:s11}}Sharp pain beginning in right side of forehead shooting like lightning through brain and coming out at occiput.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Painful jerks in forehead shooting backward.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Pain pressing from within outward, extending from beneath right temporal bone to frontal bone, agg. from external pressure.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Twinging pain in right temporal bone extending into ear and causing a kind of earache.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Pressive pain in right side of vertex as if a sharp corner were pressing against it.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Jerking-sticking pain at posterior portion of parietal bone.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Painful jerking thrust through right hemisphere of brain on motion.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Pressing asunder headache, so violent that he almost lost his reason.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Pressive pain beneath skull as if skull would be pressed outward by a sharp plug.
====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======
{{anchor:s21}}Pain in right eyeball, as if inner portion of eye would be torn out.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Ciliary neuralgia: pain in eyeball as if crushed, or pain as if pressed asunder; sharp shooting pain extending through eye back into brain, or above eye extending into and around it or over corresponding side of head; pain commences behind ear and shoots forward to eye; agg. from motion; amel. in rest; pains occasionally periodic in character and may be agg. at night.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Chorio-retinitis in myopic patients with sclerectasia posterior and fluidity of vitreous, with floating opacities in it (hemorrhagic).\\ {{anchor:s24}}Irido-choroiditis, no fluidity of vitreous and no floating opacities.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Irido-cyclitis with anterior synechiae.\\ {{anchor:s26}}An old lady, aet. 76, had paralysis of right side, and cornea nearly opaque, with excessive congestion of superficial and deep vessels of conjunctiva and sclerotic.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Choroiditis, either with or without retinal complication.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Opacities and haziness of vitreous during course of choroidal troubles.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Glaucoma; pain severe, crushing in eye as if pressed asunder, or sharp shooting through eye and corresponding side of head; aqueous and vitreous humor hazy; fundus hyperemic.
====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======
{{anchor:s31}}Pressing-asunder pain in right ear like earache.
====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======
{{anchor:s33}}Pain as from pressing asunder above nasal bones.
====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======
{{anchor:s35}}Wrenching pain in several back teeth whenever anything warm is taken into mouth.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Pain in last left lower back tooth as if tooth would be torn out.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Very piercing nervous pain in left upper molar.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Fine, sticking pains in various teeth.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Toothache as if tooth would be raised; pain also shoots from one tooth to another.
====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======
{{anchor:s41}}Burning on tongue as if she had burned it.
====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======
{{anchor:s43}}Fullness and distension in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Sensation of fullness in pit of stomach, as after a full meal or as from overlifting, with shortness of breathing.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Sensation of repletion in stomach; a very small quantity of food satisfies.
====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======
{{anchor:s47}}Flatulence presses upon bladder and causes cramps in bladder, so that he is obliged to completely double up.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Obliged to walk very carefully and softly on account of cramps in abdomen, so that abdomen should not be shaken, otherwise urinary troubles were greatly aggravated.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Pain in right inguinal region as if hernia would protrude.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Ascites; swelling of abdomen; loss of appetite; scanty micturition; hard, nodular stool, discharged with pain in rectum.
====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======
{{anchor:s52}}Diarrhea with nausea, feces consisting of mucus, with burning in rectum as from a wound.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Hard stool, intermitting, looking like excrements of dogs, in small lumps with stitches in rectum, extorting cries.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Pressive, cramplike pain, as if an angular body were pressed inward, on right side of rectum an inch above anus.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Violent burning in anus, as from salt in a wound after a slimy, diarrhea-like stool.
====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======
{{anchor:s57}}Tenesmus of bladder; every other quarter of an hour for eight hours.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Spasms in bladder disturbing sleep at night; burning in sphincter vesical.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Efforts to pass urine torment him for a whole hour, with violent burning-biting pains in bladder and urethra.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Strangury; continuous urging to urinate, with burning-biting in bladder and urethra; when effort is made to urinate, burning in urethra, so that one must bend double without being able to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Very urgent desire to urinate, if not attended to immediately causes severe sharp, crampy pains in bladder.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Urgent desire to urinate; the urine only reaches glans penis and causes there violent pain and spasms, also with tenesmus in rectum; pain in bladder momentarily amel. as soon as urine descends into urethra.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Is hurriedly impelled to pass urine which, however, seems to pass forward into glans penis, and then seems to return and cause most violent pain in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Dared not take hold urethra on account on pain, as from suppuration of ulceration.\\ {{anchor:s65}}As urine passes he is momentarily relieved of pains, yet there remains a sticking in glans penis, which causes a most frightful spasm of urethra (ischuria urethralis) with tenesmus recti.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Must press a long time before urine appears.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Scanty secretion of urine, brown; must always press a long time before passing any urine, and then in a feeble stream.
====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======
{{anchor:s69}}The prepuce is drawn behind the corona glandis, the penis becoming smaller.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Burning biting in urethra; great soreness so that he cannot touch it.
====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======
{{anchor:s72}}Tickling, itching in region of ovaries not amel. by scratching and rubbing.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Menses too early, with violent pain in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Metrorrhagia of thin, pale blood, becoming very watery the longer it lasts.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Leucorrhea excoriating, coloring linen yellow.
====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======
{{anchor:s77}}Anxious, short respiration; tight and difficult, with anxiety about heart.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Shortness of breath, while walking; sighing, as if he were climbing a high and steep mountain.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Breathing difficult, caused by a sensation of heaviness in lower part of thorax.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Left ankle and foot much swollen after being sprained; as swelling and pain abated new symptoms developed; breathing became rapid; great oppression of chest with constantly recurring desire to take a long breath; felt as if air she inhaled did not reach pit of stomach, and till she could force air so far down had to yawn and try to take a deep inspiration.
====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======
{{anchor:s82}}Heaviness and oppression of chest.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Heavy and anxious sensation in lower portion of chest, frequently compelling him to take a deep breath.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Sensation of heaviness in left chest, frequently obliging him to take a deep breath.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Tightness in upper part of left chest.
====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======
{{anchor:s87}}Furious beating of heart, even when at rest, and great danger of suffocation from slightest motion; visible pulsation of carotids; face bloated and purple; lips purple; menses suppressed.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Knocking at heart with labored breathing.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Even from a very moderate motion beats of heart are fearfully aggravated.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Far advanced edema of feet in a girl aet. 14, dependent on hypertrophy of heart.
====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======
{{anchor:s92}}Stitches between shoulder blades on drawing a long breath.\\ {{anchor:s93}}All parts of back and small of back seem stiff, as if he had been injured, or from overlifting.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Pains in small of back, while sitting.
====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======
{{anchor:s96}}Pressure on right shoulder extending to deltoid muscle, preventing one from raising arm.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Sensation as if sprained in right thumb, hindering writing; cannot hold pen.
====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======
{{anchor:s99}}Pain in hip, agg. in forenoon; free from it after midnight.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Restlessness in legs, must change position continually.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Pain as from a sprain in left ankle.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Pain in first joint of big toe, as if it were pulled out.
====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======
{{anchor:s106}}Rest: ciliary neuralgia amel.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Sitting: pain in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Must double up: cramps in bladder; burning in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Is inclined to stretch.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Cannot hold pen: pain in thumb.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Cannot raise arm: pressure on right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Must change position continually: restlessness in legs.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Motion: painful thrust through brain; neuralgia in eyes agg.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Must walk very carefully: cramps in bladder.
====== TIME. [38] ======
{{anchor:s116}}Forenoon: pain in hip.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Evening: chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Night: pain in eyes agg.; spasms in bladder, disturbing sleep.\\ {{anchor:s119}}After midnight: free from pain in hip.
====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======
{{anchor:s121}}Warm food: causes pain in back teeth.
====== FEVER. [40] ======
{{anchor:s123}}Chilliness in evening, must go to bed, is inclined to stretch.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Dry heat over whole body, with pain in corona glandis and redness of prepuce; burning on genitals, amel. from perspiration and ceasing when going to bed.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Perspiration during sleep, only in face.
====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======
{{anchor:s127}}Periodic: pains in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Every other quarter of an hour for eight hours: tenesmus of bladder.\\ {{anchor:s129}}For whole hour: efforts to pass urine.
====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======
{{anchor:s131}}Right: pain beginning in side of forehead; pain from beneath temporal bone; pain in right side of top of head; painful thrust through hemisphere of brain; pain in eyeball; paralysis of side; pain in ear; pain in inguinal hernia; pain on side of rectum an inch above anus; pressure on shoulder; sensation as if sprained in thumb.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Left: pain in last lower back tooth; piercing pain in upper molar; pain as from a sprained ankle.\\ {{anchor:s133}}From within outward: pain from beneath temporal bone to frontal bone.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Backward: pain in forehead.
====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======
{{anchor:s136}}As if a sharp corner were pressing against top of head; as if skull would be pressed outward by a sharp plug; as if inner portion of eye would be torn out; eye-ball as if crushed, or as if pressed asunder; as if tooth would be torn out; as if tooth would be raised; as if tongue had been burned; as if hernia would protrude; burning as from a wound in rectum; as if an angular body were being pressed inward in rectum; as from salt in a wound in anus; sighing as if he were climbing a high, steep mountain; as if air she inhaled did not reach pit of stomach; as if small of back had been injured; as if right thumb were sprained; as if ankle were sprained; as if first joint of big toe were pulled out.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Pain: in right eyeball; in last left lower back tooth; in right inguinal region; in rectum; in small of back; in hip; in left ankle; in joint of big toe; in corona glandis.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Sharp pain: from right side of forehead through brain and coming out at occiput.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Violent pain: in glans penis; in urethra; in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Sharp shooting pain: through eye back into brain; behind ear forward to eye; from one tooth to another Severe sharp crampy pains: in bladder.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Piercing nervous pain: in left upper molar.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Violent burning biting pains: in bladder; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Stitches in rectum: between shoulder blades.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Jerking sticking pain: at posterior portion of parietal bone.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Painful jerking thrust: through right hemisphere of brain.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Twinging pain: in right temporal bone into ear.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Pressing asunder pain: in head; in right ear; above nasal bone.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Pressing pain: from beneath right temporal bone; in right side of top of head; beneath skull; on right side of rectum; on right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Fine sticking pain: in various teeth; in glans penis.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Cramps: in bladder; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Burning: on tongue; in rectum; in anus; in sphincter vesica; in urethra; on genitals.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Heat over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Soreness: in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Painful jerks: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Restlessness: in legs.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Tightness: in upper part of left chest.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Heaviness: in lower part of thorax; of chest.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Fullness: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Distension: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Oppression: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Tickling: in region of ovaries.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Itching: in region of ovaries.
====== TISSUES. [44] ======
{{anchor:s164}}Ciliary neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Dropsy caused by defective heart; abdominal dropsy; anasarca after any debilitating, chronic diseases, and particularly in those connected with cachectic affections.
====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======
{{anchor:s169}}Touch: painful from soreness in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Pressure: pain in head agg.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Scratching or rubbing does not amel. itching in ovaries.
====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======
{{anchor:s173}}Girl, aet. 14; hypertrophy of heart and dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Young lady, aet. 16, after jumping from a carriage while horse was running away; sprained ankle.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Woman, aet. 32, single, suffering six months; affection of heart.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Woman, aet. 65; dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Woman, has had much trouble and sorrow; affection of heart.
====== RELATIONS. [48] ======
{{anchor:s179}}Compare: Laurocerasus.
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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r229|Prunus spinosa]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r229|Prunus spinosa]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1889 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}