About Prunus Spinosa Homeopathy Dilution

Also known as Acacia, Pseudognaphalium Obtusifolium, Black-thorn

It plays a special role of action in the urinary organs and head. It is very useful in certain neuralgic pains, widespread swelling, especially of the feet, sprain in the ankle and foot and  pain in the eyes.

Prunus Spinosa Patient Profile

Skin - Cures itching on the tips of the fingers, excess watery fluid collection in the tissues and reappearance of the chicken pox virus.

Rectum - As reported, burning in the anus, hard stool with rectal pain is treated.

Head - The remedy covers pain in the eyeball, piercing toothache, pain beneath skull, shooting pain from the right frontal bone as if the teeth were pulled out.

Abdomen - Treats accumulation of fluid in the abdomen and cramps in the bladder region which worsens while walking.

Respiratory - Symptoms such as oppression and pain in the chest, shortness of breath, rapid throbbing and wheezing when walking.

Other symptoms can be found in -

1. Eyes
2. Urine

Prunus Spinosa as per Boericke Materia Medica

Special action on the urinary organs and head. Very valuable in certain neuralgias, anasarca, and especially śdema 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 diarrhśa.

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; 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 śsophagus; neuralgic and gouty pains).

Dose -Third to sixth potency.