PRUNUS SPINOSA


PRUNUS SPINOSA symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy PRUNUS SPINOSA…


INTRODUCTION

PRUN. SP.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Trembling through the whole body. Constant uneasiness, particularly in the lower limbs.

SLEEP.

Drowsiness after dinner. Dreams and fancies.

FEVER.

Chilliness, with disposition to stretch. Dry heat over the whole body, with painfulness of the glands and redness of the prepuce.

MORAL SYMPTOMS.

Restlessness with shortness of breath and oppression of the chest. Peevish mood.

HEAD.

Dizziness, with heaviness of the head. Nervous pain in the occiput. Compressive pain, as if the brain were compressed from all sides. Pressure under the skull, as if pressed outwards with a plug.

FACE.

AND TEETH.

Itching stinging on the malar bone. Indescribable pains in various teeth. Nervous pain. Pain as if sprained in the molar teeth. Pain as if the teeth were raised out of their out of their sockets.

MOUTH.

Burning in the tongue, only between meals.

APPETITE AND TASTE.

Slimy taste in the mouth.

STOMACH AND HYPOCHONDRIA.

Fullness in the pit of the stomach, with shortness of breath. Painful pressure in the region of the liver.

ABDOMEN.

Colic, as after a cold. Contractive pain in the abdomen. Cramps in the abdomen. Cutting across the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would set in. Dropsical swelling of the abdomen, with loss of appetite, scanty urine, and hard, knotty, difficult stool.

STOOL AND ANUS.

Hard stool. Diarrhoea, with discharge of quantity of faeces, preceded by cutting colic. Slimy diarrhoea, succeeded by violent burning in the anus, as from a wound. Diarrhoea, with nausea and constant loathing of food. Discharge of blood from the anus after hard stool.

URINE.

Tenesmus of the bladder. Strangury. Troublesome urging to urinate. for hours, with burning biting in the bladder and urethra. Burning in the urethra at every attempt to urinate. Scanty emission of brown urine. Has to press a long time before the urine makes its appearance, also with scanty emission and feeble stream. Spasms of the bladder, not allowing any rest at night. Ulcerative pain in the urethra when touching it.

FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS.

Painless throbbing in the parts. Menses every fortnight, attended with pains in the back. Metrorrhagia, the blood being watery and thin. Discharge of blood from the vagina every day. Leucorrhoea making the parts sore, and tinging the lines yellow. Sticking in the mamma.

LARYNX.

Roughness of speech. Hoarseness and weakness of the organs of speech. Wheezing cough.

CHEST.

Anxious and short breathing. Oppressed and difficult breathing, with anxiety about the heart. Panting breathing. Sticking, with pressure on drawing breath, impeding inspirations.

BACK.

Pain in the small of the back, when sitting. Stiffness of the back and small of the back, as from a strain. Aching ulcerative pain in the left axillary glands.

ARMS.

Laming pain in the left shoulder-joint, extending across the breast. Rigid sensation in the fore-arm, impending the movement of the arm. Cramp-like contractive pain in the hand, extending to the tips of the fingers. Painful rigidity in the thumb. Pain as if sprained in the thumb.

LEGS.

Pains in the hip, most violent in the forenoon. Feeling of weariness in the joints. Burning on the lower limbs. Tension of the skin on the calves and thighs. Lacerating in the middle of the thigh. Languor in both-joints, when standing. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration in the sole.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.