PRUNUS SPINOSA
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Appetite lost
- Ascites
- Breast pain
- Choroiditis
- Ciliary neuralgia
- Cystitis
- Dropsy
- Dysuria
- Flatulent
- Earache
- Eyes choroiditis
- Glaucoma
- Heart affections
- Hernia
- Herpes zoster
- Leucorrhoea
- Menorrhagia
- Metrorrhagia
- Neuralgia
- Sprains
- Strangury
- Stricture
- Toothache
- Vitreous opacities
- Pressive pains
- Out-pressive pains
- Out-shooting pains
- Pains in skull
- Pains in eye
- Pains in root of nose
- Pains in ears
- Teeth feel raised out of sockets
- Shooting from within out
- Shooting from before backward
- Spraining pains
- Pains which take away the breath
- Breath always seems to remain sticking in pit of stomach
- Pain as if sprained in left ankle
- Rapid breathing
- Great oppression
- Constantly recurring desire to take a long breath
- Air inhaled did not reach pit of stomach
- Yawning to take a deep inspiration
- Tightness in chest
- Stitches in chest
- Sticking pains in chest
- Neuralgic pains with or following herpes zoster
- Pressure of abdominal flatulence on the bladder
- Cramps in bladder
- Hurriedly impelled to pass urine
- Urine seems to pass forward into glans penis and then return and cause most violent pain in urethra
- Menses too early
- Menses too profuse
- Menses last too long
- Menses are thin and watery
- Leucorrhoea which weakens
- Leucorrhoea stains yellow
- Sharp corner pressing against top of head
- Headache as if from sun
- Skull would be pressed outward by a sharp plug
- Inner portion of eye would be torn out
- Eyeball as if crushed
- Eyeball as if pressed asunder
- Tooth would be torn out
- Tongue had been burned
- Hernia would protrude
- Burning as from a wound in rectum
- Burning as from salt in a wound in anus
- Sighing as if climbing a steep mountain
- Small of back had been injured
- Right thumb sprained
- Left ankle sprained
- First joint of big toe pulled out
- Frequent urging to urinate
- Shooting pains in neck of bladder
- Urination delayed if any great amount has accumulated
- Spasmodic tenesmus of bladder and rectum at close of urination
- Pains in glans
- Pulsation in glans from jar of walking
- Sadness
- Indifference
- Moroseness
- Ill-humour
- Restlessness
- Dyspnoea
- Short breathing
- Reeled and staggered back and forth
- Heaviness in head
- Vertigo
- Pressure in head
- Principally in forehead, occiput, and temples
- Pressive pain beneath skull
- Skull would be pressed through with a plug
- Pressing asunder headache so violent that he almost lost his reason
- Sharp pains beginning in r. forehead shooting like lightning through brain and coming out at occiput
- Painful jerks in forehead shooting back
- Violent nervous pains in head
- Loss of ideas
- Loss of consciousness
- Pressure in head mostly manifests itself from without inwards
- Pressive pain from within out beneath upper part of r, temporal bone
- From thence to frontal bone < by external pressure
- Twinging pain: in r. temporal bone to ear, causing earache
- Extending outward
- Pressive pain r. vertex as if sharp corner pressing against it
- Jerking sticking back part l. frontal bone
- Painful jerking through r. hemisphere of brain, on motion
- Nervous out-pressing pain in occiput and occipital bone (l.)
- Headache, as from heat of sun
- Stitches in scalp
- Pains in the eyes, as if the balls were torn out
- 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, < motion, > rest
- Pains occasionally periodic, may be < at night
- Pain in r. eye as if it were torn asunder
- Inner portion would be torn out
- Itching in corners of eyes and in edges of lids
- Binding sensations in ears
- Pressing-asunder pain in r. ear, like earache
- Frequent sneezing
- Pressing-asunder pains about nasal bones
- Itching sticking in upper part of malar bone
- Violent nervous or wrenching pains in teeth
- Sensation as if teeth were raised up, and pulled out
- Pricking pains in teeth
- Toothache > biting teeth together
- 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
- Rawness, scraping, crawling in throat, causing hacking cough
- When eating at times seized with hunger, but a very small quantity of food satisfies the appetite
- Constant nausea
- Dislike to all food
- Diarrhoea
- Fulness, distension, and oppression in pit of stomach
- Shortness of breath (as after a full meal, or from over-lifting)
- Aching pains in hepatic region
- Violent spasmodic colic, which hinders lying on back or sides, also walking, except very slowly; > on bending thorax forwards
- Pressive colic in epigastrium, or in r. 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
- Loss of appetite
- Scanty urine
- Hard and knotty faeces
- 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 r. inguinal region
- Pressure, as if a hernia were about to protrude
- Swashing like a bladder full of liquid in fold in r. lower abdomen
- Very painful stitches r. groin, > by pressure with hands
- 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
- 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 r. side of rectum an inch above anus
- Cramp-like pains in rectum
- Discharge of blood from anus after evacuation
- 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; < 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
- Continuous urging to urinate, with burning-biting in bladder and urethra
- 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 > as soon as the urine descends in the urethra
- Urine reaches glans penis and then returns
- Spasmodic retention of urine
- Violent burning pains in urethra when endeavouring to urinate
- Pain in urethra, as from excoriation, esp. when it is touched
- Flaccidity of penis
- Retraction of prepuce
- Agreeable itching in the scrotum immediately > by scratching
- Discharge of a watery and pale blond from uterus
- Tickling, itching in region of ovaries, not > by scratching and rubbing
- Metrorrhagia daily for eight to ten weeks, becoming more and more watery the longer it lasted
- Catamenia too early
- Sacral pains
- Corrosive leucorrhoea
- Scraping and roughness in throat, with inclination to cough
- Cough excited by a tickling as with a feather, or crawling in larynx and upper part of trachea
- Cough renewed by holding the breath
- Wheezing cough
- Breathing difficult, caused by a sensation of heaviness in lower part of thorax
- Oppressed, short, difficult, anxious, and panting respiration
- Respiration is continually arrested at pit of stomach
- Pain in chest, when speaking, with weak voice
- Sensation of heaviness and oppression in chest
- Pains under sternum, and oppression, with fulness in scrobiculus, and distension of abdomen
- Stitching pains in fleshy parts of l. breast on deep inspiration, extends to every side and even above l. shoulder; while walking and sitting
- Furious beating, even when at rest, and great danger of suffocation from slightest motion; visible pulsation of carotids; face bloated and purple; lips purple; menses suppressed
- Knocking at heart with laboured breathing
- Even very moderate motion < beats of heart fearfully
- Far advanced oedema of feet in girl, 14, with hypertrophy of heart
- Pressive pain in nape which involves whole occiput on stooping
- All parts of back and small of back seem stiff as if he had been injured
- Stitches between shoulder-blades on drawing a long breath
- Pain in small of back when sitting
- Pain, as from ulceration in loins
- Stiffness in back and loins, as if caused by a strain
- Pressure on r. shoulder, extending to deltoid muscle, preventing one from raising arm
- Soreness of axillary glands
- Tension, wrenching pains, and paralytic sensation in various parts of arms and hands
- Paralytic pains in l. elbow-joint extending to wrist
- R. wrist: wrenching pain during rest; pain as if bruise would form
- Sensation as if sprained in r. thumb, hindering one from writing; cannot hold the pen
- Itching in fingers, as from chilblains
- Pains in hips at night, before midnight
- Pain in hip, < forenoon, and free from it after midnight
- Restlessness in legs, has to change the position continually
- Wrenching pains in knees and feet
- Burning sensation in legs
- Pain as from sprain l. ankle
- Pain in first joint of big toe, as if it were pulled out
- Shootings in muscles
- Trembling in whole body
- Uneasiness in body, with shortness of breath and oppression of chest
- Sleep after a meal
- Retarded sleep and sleeplessness at night
- Waking too early
- Lassitude in morning, as after unrefreshing sleep
- Sleep full of dreams and phantasies
- Dreams of furunculi
- Dreams of salt things
- Shivering, esp. in evening
- Dry heat over the whole body, esp. in genital organs
- Sweat on face only, during sleep