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Prunus spinosa

Black-thorn

2 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Special action on the urinary organs and head.
  • Very valuable in certain neuralgias, anasarca, and especially swelling pedum.
  • Ankle and foot feel sprained.
  • Ciliary neuralgia.

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Symptoms by body part

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 watering eyes. 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 diarrhoea.

Urine

Constant urge to pass stool 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. Fluid swelling (oedema). Itching on tips of fingers, as if frozen.

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