Black thorn. 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, affection 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 characterized 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, choroidoretinitis, iridochoroiditis, iridocyclitis. 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 while 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 causes 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 is 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 would 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. (*Medorrhinum 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. 1 m. (Fincke) removed the symptoms. The symptoms are: worse By touch and pressure. Biting teeth together ameliorates toothache. better From rest, from doubling up. worse Motion, from jarring, must walk carefully. worse Night. worse From warm food (toothache).
Relations
*Compare: Heart, Crataeg., Lauro., Pru-p. Eyes, Belladonna Burning tongue, Sanguinaria, Polyg. Stool like dog’s, Pho. Leucorrhoea staining yellow, Agn-c., Carb-a., Chelidonium, Kre., Nux vomica, Sepia, Thu., nitricum acidum
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 right 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 right temporal bone, from thence to frontal bone worse by external pressure. Twinging pain: in right temporal bone to ear, causing earache, extending outward. Pressive pain right vertex as if sharp corner pressing against it. Jerking sticking back part left frontal bone. Painful jerking through right hemisphere of brain, on motion. Nervous out-pressing pain in occiput and occipital bone (left). 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, worse motion, better rest, pains occasionally periodic, may be worse at night. Pain in right 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 ear. Pressing-asunder pains in right ear, like earache.
Nose
Frequent sneezing. Pressing-asunder pains about nasal bones.
Face
Itching sticking in upper part of malar bone.
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.
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 better biting teeth together.
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. Fullness, 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, better on bending thorax forwards. Pressive colic in epigastrium, or in right 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 any 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 right inguinal region, and pressure, as if a hernia were about to protrude. Swashing like a bladder full of liquid in fold in right lower abdomen. Very painful stitches right groin, better 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 right 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 right 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, worse 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 better 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, especially when it is touched.
