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General

Prunus Spinosa.

Blackthorn. Sloe. N. O. Rosaceae. Tincture of buds just before flowering.

Clinical

Appetite, lost. Ascites. Breast, pain in. Choroiditis. Ciliary neuralgia. Cystitis. Dropsy. Dysuria; flatulent. Earache. Eyes; choroiditis. Glaucoma. Heart, affections of. Hernia. Herpes zoster. Leucorrhoea. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Neuralgia. Sprains. Strangury. Stricture. Toothache. Vitreous, opacities of.

Characteristics

Prun. spi. was proved by Wahle. The symptoms resemble those of Pru. pd. in general, but some very strongly characterised ones were produced. The pains were pressive and out-pressive, and out-shooting. These pains are felt in skull, eye, root of nose, and ears; the teeth feel raised out of their sockets.

Shooting from within out, from before backward. These pains occurring in and around the eye have led to its successful use in glaucoma, ciliary neuralgia, choroido-retinitis, irido-choroiditis, irido-cyclitis. Spraining pains and pains which take away the breath. A remarkable symptom is: "Breath always seems to remain sticking in pit of stomach." This symptom, with "pain as if sprained in left ankle," led Lippe to make a remarkable cure in this case: A young lady, 16, jumped from a carriage whilst the horse was running away and sprained her ankle.

Left ankle and foot much swollen. As swelling abated, breathing became rapid; great oppression with constantly recurring desire to take a long breath; felt as if air 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 The tightness, stitches, and sticking pains in chest have marked Prun. spi. as a remedy in many cases of neuralgic pains with or following herpes zoster. The urinary symptoms are perhaps the most peculiar of all.

Pressure of abdominal flatulence on the bladder is not an uncommon symptom, and is met by Prun. spi.: "Flatulence presses on bladder and = cramps in bladder so that he is obliged to double up." Strangury of the most painful description was produced, and this symptom, which is quite characteristic: Hurriedly impelled to pass urine, which, however, seems to pass forward into glans penis and then return and cause most violent pain in urethra. Menses are too early; too profuse; last too long, and are thin and watery.

There is leucorrhoea, which weakens and stains yellow. The right side is much more affected than the left. Peculiar sensations are: As if a sharp corner pressing against top of head. Headache as if from sun.

As if skull would be pressed outward by a sharp plug. As if inner portion of eye would be torn out. Eyeball as if crushed, or pressed asunder. As if tooth would be torn out.

As if tongue had been burned. As if hernia would protrude. Burning as from a wound in rectum; as from salt in a wound in anus. Sighing as if climbing a steep mountain.

As. if small of back had been injured. As if right thumb sprained; as if left ankle sprained; as if first joint of big toe pulled out. C. M.

Boger gives this confirmation of Prun. spi. (Med. Couns., xvi. 264): Man, 60, with enlarged prostate, had frequent urging to urinate, day and night. Shooting pains in neck of bladder unless desire to urinate is at once gratified.

Urination delayed if any great amount has accumulated. Spasmodic tenesmus of bladder and rectum at close of urination, with pains in glans. Pulsation in glans from jar of walking. Prun. spi. 1m.

(Fincke) removed the symptoms. The symptoms are: < By touch and pressure. Biting teeth together > toothache. > From rest; from doubling up.

< Motion; from jarring; must walk carefully < Night. < From warm food (toothache).

Relations

Compare: Heart, Crataeg., Lauro., Pru. p. Eyes, Bell. Burning tongue, Sang., Polyg. Stool like dog's, Pho. Leucorrhoea staining yellow, Agn. c., Carb. a., Chel., Kre., Nux, Sep., Thu., Nit. ac.

Causation

Sun. Sprains. Over-lifting.

Mind

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.

Head

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 l. frontal bone

Painful jerking through r. hemisphere of brain, on motion

Nervous out-pressing pain in occiput and occipital bone (l.)

Headache, as from heat of sun

Stitches in scalp.

Eyes

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.

Ears

Binding sensations in ears.—Pressing-asunder pain in r. ear, like earache.

Nose

Frequent sneezing.—Pressing-asunder pains about nasal bones.

Face

Itching sticking in upper part of malar bone.

Teeth

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.

Mouth

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.

Throat

Rawness, scraping, crawling in throat, causing hacking cough.

Stomach

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 diarrhoea

Fulness, distension, and oppression in pit of stomach, with shortness of breath (as after a full meal, or from over-lifting).

Abdomen

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 faeces

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.

Stool And Anus

Difficult, hard, and knotty faeces

Diarrhoea; with colic, and copious evacuation of faecal matter; faeces 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.

Urinary Organs

Cramps in bladder, also at night disturbing the sleep

Tenesmus of bladder, every half-hour for eight hours

Burning in sphincter vesicae

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.

Male Sexual Organs

Flaccidity of penis, and retraction of prepuce.—Agreeable itching in the scrotum immediately > by scratching.

Female Sexual Organs

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 leucorrhoea, staining yellow.

Respiratory Organs

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.

Chest

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 l. breast on deep inspiration, extends to every side and even above l. shoulder; while walking and sitting.

Heart

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 oedema of feet in girl, 14, with hypertrophy of heart.

Neck And Back

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.

Upper Limbs

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 l. 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.

Lower Limbs

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 l. ankle

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

Generalities

Shootings in muscles.—Trembling in whole body.—Uneasiness in body, with shortness of breath and oppression of chest.

Sleep

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 furunculi; or of salt things.

Fever

Shivering, esp. in evening

Dry heat over the whole body, esp. in genital organs

Sweat on face only, during sleep.