PRUNUS SPINOSA


Prunus Spinosa homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


  Common names (German). Schlehdorn, Schwarzdorn; (French). Epine noire, Prunellier.

Introduction

Prunus spinosa, Linn. Natural order, Rosacea. Preparation, Tincture of the buds just before flowering.

Mind

Joyous mood (curative action). Joyless mood, satisfaction with nothing. Morose and fretful. (He goes again to his business with contentment).

Head

Dizziness and obscuration in the forehead. He reeled and staggered back and forth. Head heavy and dizzy. Heaviness of the head. A pressing-asunder headache, so violent that he almost lost his reason. Pressive pain in the head, like that caused by great heat of the sun. Pressive pain beneath the skull, as if the skull would be press outward by a sharp plug.

Sensation as if the brain were compressed from all sides, but without pain. Forehead. A sharp pain beginning in the right side of the forehead, shooting like lightning through the brain and coming out at the occiput. A pressing-outward pain in the forehead, that takes away his senses. Pressive pain extending from the right frontal bone through the brain into the occiput.

Pressure from within outward in the forehead. A pressing outward beneath the left frontal bone. A forcing out pain in the forehead. Pain in the right side of the forehead, pressing from within outward (after eating). Pressing-outward pain in the left frontal eminence. Pressive sore pain in the forepart of the head, disappearing as soon as he thinks intently about it.

Painful jerks in the forehead shoot backward. Temples. Pain pressing from within outward beneath the upper part of the right temporal bone. Pain pressing from within outward, extending from beneath the right temporal bone to the frontal bone, aggravated by external pressure. Very acute nervous pain in the upper part of the right temporal bone, aggravated by external pressure.

Twinging pain in the right temporal bone, extending into the ear and causing a kind of earache. Twinging pain in the right temporal bone, extending outward. Vertex and Parietals. Pressive pain in the right side of the top of the head, as if a sharp corner were pressing against it. A jerking-sticking pain at the posterior portion of the left parietal bone. A painful jerking thrust through the right hemisphere of the brain on motion. Occiput. A violent nervous pain in the left side of the occiput, that took away his thoughts. Pressive pain from within outwards in the occiput. Pressing outward in the left of the occiput bone. A pressive sore pain in the left side of the occiput, extending forward and into some teeth of the same side.

Pressive pain from within outward in the left side of the occipital bone (after half an hour). Pain in the occiput so violent on stooping that his thoughts vanished. External occiput so violent on stooping that his thoughts vanished. External Head.

Sticking, as with a needle, in the scalp, on the occiput.

Eye

She was not weary, and yet her eyes closed. Itching in the right outer canthus, especially on the margins of the lids. Itching in the left inner canthus. Pain in the right eyeball, as if the inner portion of the eye would be torn out.

Ear

Twinging in the left ear. A pressing-asunder pain in the right ear, like earache.

Nose

Irritation to sneeze and frequent sneezing. A tickling, as if he would sneeze, in the middle of the right nostril. A pressing- asunder pain above the nasal bones.

Face

Itching sticking on the upper portion of the malar bone.

Mouth

Teeth. Toothache, as if the tooth would be raised; the pain also shoots from one tooth to another. Toothache, as if one had cold water in the mouth. Wrenching pain in several back teeth whenever anything warm is taken into the mouth. Wrenching pain in the last back lower tooth. A nervous pain in the last lower back tooth, as if the tooth would be torn out. An indescribable sensation in various teeth frequently compels him to bite them together, which relieves. A pain, similar to that caused by a cold drink immediately after a warm one, in the left lower incisor and canine teeth. Pain in various teeth, as if they would be raised. Pressive pain in the second left upper anterior molar.

Very piercing nervous pain in the last upper molar. Sticking pain in the left lower incisors. A sticking pain in a left lower incisor. Fine sticking pains in various teeth. A bubbling pain, as if the tooth would be raised, in the last right upper back tooth. Tongue. Tongue covered with white mucus, clean in the middle posteriorly. A burning on the tongue, as if she had burned it, which she dose not notice while eating, but which is constant when not eating. Stitch, as with a needle, in the right side of the tip of the tongue. Itching crawling in the tip of the tongue and anterior teeth. Taste. Pasty taste in the mouth after eating. Bitter taste in the mouth, in the morning. Slimy taste in the mouth.

Throat

Rawness and scraping in the throat, provoking cough, in the evening, on going to sleep. Scraping in the throat, as if sore, causing a hacking cough. Crawling in the throat, causing hacking cough. Crawling sensation in the pharynx, extending upward, provoking two coughs. Pinching pain in the right submaxillary gland.

Stomach

Appetite. At times she is seized with hunger, but after eating a few morsels she is satiated. She is constantly satiated. Nausea.

Nausea, with loathing of all food, for at least three hours, so violent that he was obliged to lie down, though he never vomited, followed by diarrhoea. Stomach. Fullness in the pit of the stomach, as if she had been injured. Fullness and distension in the pit of the stomach. After taking a few spoonfuls of soup she seems full in the pit of the stomach, as if she had eaten heartily. Distension in the pit of the stomach, with shortness of breath, so that she was obliged to rest three or four times on a flight of stairs. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, so that she could scarcely breathe.

Abdomen

Hypochondria. Violent pressive pain in the hepatic region.

Painful pressure in the hepatic region, less noticed while standing. Pressive pain beneath the right lobe of the liver. A stitch, as if caused by an awl, in the right posterior and lower lobe of the liver, which, in walking, takes away his breath.

Umbilicus and Sides. Colicky pain an inch to the side of the navel. Pressive colicky pain in the right side of the abdomen, or a sensation as if small portion of the abdomen were pinched.

Pressive pain in the right side of the abdomen, so that she could not lie upon it, at night. Pain, as if something were forcing through in the right side of the abdomen, just above the navel.

General Abdomen. ( Ascites; swelling of the abdomen and loss of appetite; scanty micturition; hard nodular stool, discharged with pain in the rectum). Incarceration of flatus, causing most frightful cramps in the abdomen. Flatulence presses upon the bladder and causes cramp in the bladder, so that he is obliged to completely double up. Colic, with slight desire for stool, as after taking cold. Colic, as if diarrhoea would occur.

Colic, as if he had eaten much fruit and subsequently drunk water. Pressive colicky pains in the upper abdomen. Twisting colic, with incomplete emission of flatus, as if diarrhoea would follow, which, however, soon disappear. Pain in the abdomen, as after cold wet weather. She could lie neither upon the back nor sides on account of excessive constrictive pain in the abdomen.

Obliged to walk very carefully and softly on account of cramps in the abdomen, so that the abdomen should not shaken at all, otherwise the urinary troubles were greatly aggravated. The cramps in the abdomen and pains on breathing are relieved by bending the body forward. Cutting transversely through the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would occur, preventing sleep. Itching crawling beneath the skin of the abdomen. Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Swashing, like a bladder filled with liquid, in the fold in the right side of the lower abdomen. Pressing pain from within outward, as if a hernia would force through, in the region of the right inguinal ring. A very painful stitch in the right inguinal region, which ceases after pressure with the hands and dose not return.

Rectum and Anus

Much offensive water was involuntarily discharged by the rectum at night by one suffering from ascites, whereupon the swelling in the right side of the abdomen constantly diminished, and the heaviness caused by the swelling disappeared from the side (after eight days). Bleeding from the anus after a hard stool. Pressive cramp like pain, as if an angular body were pressed inward, on the right side of the rectum, an inch above the anus. Cramp like bubbling in the rectum while sitting. Violent burning in the anus, as from salt in a wound, after a slimy diarrhoea- like stool. Itching in the anus.

Stool

Diarrhoea, with a profuse evacuation, preceded by colic (in a person very constipated). She was obliged to go to stool three or four times before accomplishing anything. The stool looks like the faeces of a dog; it is passed in small broken pieces, with much sticking pain in the rectum, so that she cries out. Stool thin but delayed. Stool hard and not daily.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.