Prunus Virginiana


Prunus Virginiana signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Prunus Virginiana is used…


      Cerasus virginiana. Choke-cherry. *N. O. Rosaceae. Cold infusion or tincture of inner bark. Solution of concentrated resinous extract, Prunin.

Clinical

Acidity. Anorexia. Dyspepsia. Heart, weakness of, hypertrophy of, irritable. Pyrosis.

Characteristics

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 Pruneae. 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. Laid law (*N. Y. Medorrhinum Times, xxiv. 290) gives as a particular indication: Persistent coughs acquired in winter, worse *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. Laid law’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 worse *at night. After many other remedies had failed *Prunin (the preparation Laid law 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 O tincture, in 5- or 10-drop doses, had been most commonly used.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica