Prunus Spinosa prun-s.

Nerves: Respiratory. Orbital. Bladder.

Stooping. Ascending.

Pains causing SHORT BREATH, shooting or pressing outward; lightning like; wandering. Neuralgia. Cramp. Nerve paralysis. Compensatory effects.

Pains from forehead (r), to occiput. Bursting in eyeballs. Eyes feel pressed apart. Teeth feel pulled out. Cramp in bladder; he doubles up to urinate (reverse-Alu.); urine reaches glans and then goes back again. Strangury. Glans pains on urinating. Pulsating pudendum. Leucorrhœa; watery, purulent and acrid. Dropsy; cardiac; of feet. Air hunger. As of a lump below l. scapula. Heart disease. Night-sweat.

Related: Laur.

Black-thorn

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

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.

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 lachrymation. Irido-choroiditis. Opacity of vitreous humor. Eyes feel as if bursting.

Ascites. Cramp-like pain in bladder region; worse, walking.

Hard, nodular stool, with rectal pain, as if angular body were pressed inward. Burning in anus after slimy diarrhœa.

Tenesmus 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.

Wheezing when walking. Oppression of chest; anxious, short respiration. Angina pectoris. Furious beating of heart; worse, slightest motion.

Herpes zoster. Dropsy. Itching on tips of fingers, as if frozen.

Compare: Lauroc; Prumus padus-Bird--cherry--(sore throat, pressure behind sternum and sticking pain in rectum); Prunus Virginiana-Wild Cherry--(heart tonic; relieves the flagging and distended ventricle; irritable heart; dilatation of right heart; cough, worse at night on lying down; weak digestion, especially in elderly people; chronic bronchitis; increases muscular tone); Pyrus-Mountain Ash--(irritation of eyes; constriction around waist; spasmodic pains in uterus, bladder, heart, cold-water sensation in stomach, coldness extends up œsophagus; neuralgic and gouty pains).

Third to sixth potency.

Restlessness, which does not allow one to remain quiet in one place, walks about constantly, with dyspnœa and short breathing.

Heaviness of the head, also with vertigo. Pressing in the head, as if the brain were pressed out through the skull with a plug. Stitches in the scalp.

Pain in the right eye as if it were torn asunder. Itching in the corners of the eyes and in the edges of the lids.

Pain as if pressed out in the right ear.

Pain as from pressing asunder above the nasal bones.

Burning of the tongue as if scalded.

Sensation of repletion in the stomach ; a very mall quantity of food satisfies the appetite. Sensation of fulness in the pit of the stomach, as after a full meal, or as from overlifting, with shortness of breathing. Ascites, with loss of appetite, scanty urine, hard, knotty stool, which is difficult to pass. Incarcerated flatulency (on the bladder, with spasms, compelling one to walk stooped). Pain in the right inguinal region as if hernia would produce.

Stool hard, difficult to expel, in small pieces, with stitches in the rectum. Diarrhœa with nausea, feces consisting of mucus, with burning in the rectum as from a wound.

Tenesmus vesicæ. Strangury ; continuous urging to urinate, with burning-biting in the bladder and urethra ; when the effort is made to urinate, burning in the urethra, so that one must bend double without being able to urinate. Urgent desire to urinate ; the urine only reaches the glans penis and causes there violent pains and spasms, also with tenesmus in the rectum ; the pain in the bladder is momentarily relieved as soon as the urine descends in the urethra. Scanty secretion of urine, brown ; must always press a long time before passing any urine, and then in a feeble stream. Spasms in the bladder, disturbing the sleep at night ; burning in the sphincter vesicæ. In the, urethra burning-biting ; great soreness, so that he can not touch it.

Men. The prepuce is drawn behind the corona glandis, the penis becoming smaller. Women. Tickling, itching in the region of the ovaries, not relieved by scratching and rubbing. Menstruation too early, with violent pain in the small of the back. Metrorrhagia of thin pale blood, becoming more watery the longer it lasts. Leucorrhœa, excoriating, coloring the linen yellow.

Breathing difficult, caused by a sensation of heaviness in the lower part of the thorax.

Back and small of the back feel stiff as from overlifting. Stitches between the shoulder-blades on drawing a long breath. Pain in the small of the back when sitting.

Upper. Pressure on the right shoulder, extending to the deltoid muscle, preventing one from raising the arm. Sensation as if sprained in the right thumb, hindering one from writing ; cannot bold the pen. Lower. Pain in the hip, worse in the forenoon, and free from it after midnight. Pain in the first joint of the big toe, as if it were pulled out. Restlessness in the legs, has to change the position continually.

Chilliness in the evening must go to bed, is inclined to stretch himself. Dry heat over the whole body, with pain in the corona glandis and redness of the prepuce ; burning on the genitals, relieved by perspiration, and ceasing when going to bed. Perspiration during sleep, only in the face.

Blackthorn. Sloe. N. O. Rosaceæ. Tincture of buds just before flowering.

Appetite, lost . Ascites. Breast, pain in. Choroiditis. Ciliary neuralgia. Cystitis. Dropsy. Dysuria; flatulent. Earache. Eyes; choroiditis . Glaucoma. Heart, affections of. Hernia. Herpes zoster . Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Neuralgia. Sprains. Strangury. Stricture. Toothache. Vitreous, opacities of.

Prun. spi . was proved by Wahle. The symptoms resemble those of Pru. pd . in general, but some very strongly characterised ones were produced. The pains were pressive and out -pressive, and out-shooting. These pains are felt in skull, eye, root of nose, and ears; the teeth feel raised out of their sockets. Shooting from within out, from before backward. These pains occurring in and around the eye have led to its successful use in glaucoma, ciliary neuralgia, choroido-retinitis, irido-choroiditis, irido-cyclitis. Spraining pains and pains which take away the breath. A remarkable symptom is: "Breath always seems to remain sticking in pit of stomach." This symptom, with "pain as if sprained in left ankle," led Lippe to make a remarkable cure in this case: A young lady, 16, jumped from a carriage whilst the horse was running away and sprained her ankle. Left ankle and foot much swollen. As swelling abated, breathing became rapid; great oppression with constantly recurring desire to take a long breath; felt as if air inhaled did not reach pit of stomach , and till she could force air so far down had to yawn and try to take a deep inspiration. — The tightness, stitches, and sticking pains in chest have marked Prun. spi . as a remedy in many cases of neuralgic pains with or following herpes zoster. The urinary symptoms are perhaps the most peculiar of all. Pressure of abdominal flatulence on the bladder is not an uncommon symptom, and is met by Prun. spi .: "Flatulence presses on bladder and = cramps in bladder so that he is obliged to double up." Strangury of the most painful description was produced, and this symptom, which is quite characteristic: Hurriedly impelled to pass urine, which, however, seems to pass forward into glans penis and then return and cause most violent pain in urethra. Menses are too early; too profuse; last too long, and are thin and watery. There is leucorrhœa, which weakens and stains yellow. The right side is much more affected than the left. Peculiar sensations are: As if a sharp corner pressing against top of head. Headache as if from sun. As if skull would be pressed outward by a sharp plug. As if inner portion of eye would be torn out. Eyeball as if crushed, or pressed asunder. As if tooth would be torn out. As if tongue had been burned. As if hernia would protrude. Burning as from a wound in rectum; as from salt in a wound in anus. Sighing as if climbing a steep mountain. As. if small of back had been injured. As if right thumb sprained; as if left ankle sprained; as if first joint of big toe pulled out. C. M. Boger gives this confirmation of Prun. spi . ( Med. Couns ., xvi. 264): Man, 60, with enlarged prostate, had frequent urging to urinate, day and night. Shooting pains in neck of bladder unless desire to urinate is at once gratified. Urination delayed if any great amount has accumulated. Spasmodic tenesmus of bladder and rectum at close of urination, with pains in glans. Pulsation in glans from jar of walking. Prun. spi . 1m. (Fincke) removed the symptoms. The symptoms are: < By touch and pressure. Biting teeth together > toothache. > From rest; from doubling up. < Motion; from jarring; must walk carefully < Night. < From warm food (toothache).

Compare: Heart, Cratæg., Lauro., Pru. p. Eyes, Bell. Burning tongue, Sang., Polyg. Stool like dog's, Pho. Leucorrhœa staining yellow, Agn. c., Carb. a., Chel., Kre., Nux, Sep., Thu., Nit. ac.

Sun. Sprains. Over-lifting.

Sadness, indifference, moroseness, and ill-humour. — Restlessness, which does not allow one to remain in one place, walks about constantly, with dyspnœa and short breathing.

Reeled and staggered back and forth. — Heaviness in head, and vertigo. — Pressure in head, principally in forehead, occiput, and temples. — Pressive pain beneath skull, as if 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, with loss of ideas and 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. — Glaucoma. — 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; as if 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, or else a 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, with dislike to all food, and diarrhœa. — Fulness, distension, and oppression in pit of stomach, with 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, with loss of appetite, scanty urine, hard and knotty fæces. — Ascites, with loss of appetite, scanty urine, hard, knotty stool, which is difficult to pass. — 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, and 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 fæces. — Diarrhœa; with colic, and copious evacuation of fæcal matter; fæces 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; whereupon the swelling in r. abdomen steadily decreased, and disappeared in eight days. — 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 vesicæ. — 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. — Strangury. — Continuous urging to urinate, with burning-biting in bladder and urethra; when the effort is made to urinate, 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. — Tenesmus of bladder. — Violent burning pains in urethra when endeavouring to urinate. — Pain in urethra, as from excoriation, esp. when it is touched.

Flaccidity of penis, and 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. — Menses watery and thin. — Catamenia too early, and too copious, with sacral pains. — Corrosive leucorrhœa, staining yellow.

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 œdema 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 in small of back as if all strength had gone. — R. T. C.). — Stitch on r. loin to navel, taking away breath; < lying on back. — 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; or of salt things.

Shivering, esp. in evening. — Dry heat over the whole body, esp. in genital organs. — Sweat on face only, during sleep.

Sloe ; Blackthorn. Rosaceæ.
The Blackthorn (Schwarzdorn) is a native of Europe, but is found in New England and southward to Pennsylvania.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh flower buds.
Introduced by Wahle, Archiv. für Hom., 14, 3, 169 ; and Kretschmar, Allg. Hom. Zeit., vol. 1, p. 124.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Glaucoma , J. A. I. H., 1883-1886 ; Chorio-retinitis , Choroiditis, O'Connor, Norton, Norton's Ophth. Therap., p. 146 ; Affection of heart , Kurtz, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 449 ; Sprained ankle and respiratory difficulty , Lippe, N. E. M. G., vol. 10, p. 456 ; Dropsy , Hartmann, Müller, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 354.

Sharp pain beginning in right side of forehead shooting like lightning through brain and coming out at occiput.
Painful jerks in forehead shooting backward.
Pain pressing from within outward, extending from beneath right temporal bone to frontal bone, < from external pressure.
Twinging pain in right temporal bone extending into ear and causing a kind of earache.
Pressive pain in right side of vertex as if a sharp corner were pressing against it.
Jerking-sticking pain at posterior portion of parietal bone.
Painful jerking thrust through right hemisphere of brain on motion.
Pressing asunder headache, so violent that he almost lost his reason.
Pressive pain beneath skull as if skull would be pressed outward by a sharp plug.

Pain in right eyeball, as if inner portion of eye would be torn out.
Ciliary neuralgia : pain in eyeball as if crushed, or pain as if pressed asunder ; sharp shooting pain extending through eye back into brain, or above eye extending into and around it or over corresponding side of head ; pain commences behind ear and shoots forward to eye ; < from motion ; > in rest ; pains occasionally periodic in character and may be < at night.
Chorio-retinitis in myopic patients with sclerectasia posterior and fluidity of vitreous, with floating opacities in it (hemorrhagic).
Irido-choroiditis, no fluidity of vitreous and no floating opacities.
Irido-cyclitis with anterior synechiæ.
An old lady, æt. 76, had paralysis of right side, and cornea nearly opaque, with excessive congestion of superficial and deep vessels of conjunctiva and sclerotic.
Choroiditis, either with or without retinal complication.
Opacities and haziness of vitreous during course of choroidal troubles.
Glaucoma ; pain severe, crushing in eye as if pressed asunder, or sharp shooting through eye and corresponding side of head ; aqueous and vitreous humor hazy ; fundus hyperemic.

Pressing-asunder pain in right ear like earache.

Pain as from pressing asunder above nasal bones.

Wrenching pain in several back teeth whenever anything warm is taken into mouth.
Pain in last left lower back tooth as if tooth would be torn out.
Very piercing nervous pain in left upper molar.
Fine, sticking pains in various teeth.
Toothache as if tooth would be raised ; pain also shoots from one tooth to another.

Burning on tongue as if she had burned it.

Fulness and distension in pit of stomach.
Sensation of fulness in pit of stomach, as after a full meal or as from overlifting, with shortness of breathing.
Sensation of repletion in stomach ; a very small quantity of food satisfies.

Flatulence presses upon bladder and causes cramps in bladder, so that he is obliged to completely double up.
Obliged to walk very carefully and softly on account of cramps in abdomen, so that abdomen should not be shaken, otherwise urinary troubles were greatly aggravated.
Pain in right inguinal region as if hernia would protrude.
Ascites ; swelling of abdomen ; loss of appetite ; scanty micturition ; hard, nodular stool, discharged with pain in rectum.

Diarrhœa with nausea, feces consisting of mucus, with burning in rectum as from a wound.
Hard stool, intermitting, looking like excrements of dogs, in small lumps with stitches in rectum, extorting cries.
Pressive, cramplike pain, as if an angular body were pressed inward, on right side of rectum an inch above anus.
Violent burning in anus, as from salt in a wound after a slimy, diarrhœa-like stool.

Tenesmus of bladder ; every other quarter of an hour for eight hours.
Spasms in bladder disturbing sleep at night ; burning in sphincter vesical.
Efforts to pass urine torment him for a whole hour, with violent burning-biting pains in bladder and urethra.
Strangury ; continuous urging to urinate, with burning-biting in bladder and urethra ; when effort is made to urinate, burning in urethra, so that one must bend double without being able to urinate.
Very urgent desire to urinate, if not attended to immediately causes severe sharp, crampy pains in bladder.
Urgent desire to urinate ; the urine only reaches glans penis and causes there violent pain and spasms, also with tenesmus in rectum ; pain in bladder momentarily > as soon as urine descends into urethra.
Is hurriedly impelled to pass urine which, however, seems to pass forward into glans penis, and then seems to return and cause most violent pain in urethra.
Dared not take hold urethra on account on pain, as from suppuration of ulceration.
As urine passes he is momentarily relieved of pains, yet there remains a sticking in glans penis, which causes a most frightful spasm of urethra (ischuria urethralis) with tenesmus recti.
Must press a long time before urine appears.
Scanty secretion of urine, brown ; must always press a long time before passing any urine, and then in a feeble stream.

The prepuce is drawn behind the corona glandis, the penis becoming smaller.
Burning biting in urethra ; great soreness so that he cannot touch it.

Tickling, itching in region of ovaries not > by scratching and rubbing.
Menstruation too early, with violent pain in small of back.
Metrorrhagia of thin, pale blood, becoming very watery the longer it lasts.
Leucorrhœa excoriating, coloring linen yellow.

Anxious, short respiration ; tight and difficult, with anxiety about heart.
Shortness of breath, while walking ; sighing, as if he were climbing a high and steep mountain.
Breathing difficult, caused by a sensation of heaviness in lower part of thorax.
Left ankle and foot much swollen after being sprained ; as swelling and pain abated new symptoms developed ; breathing became rapid ; great oppression of chest with constantly recurring desire to take a long breath ; felt as if air she inhaled did not reach pit of stomach, and till she could force air so far down had to yawn and try to take a deep inspiration.

Heaviness and oppression of chest.
Heavy and anxious sensation in lower portion of chest, frequently compelling him to take a deep breath.
Sensation of heaviness in left chest, frequently obliging him to take a deep breath.
Tightness in upper part of left chest.

Furious beating of heart, 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 labored breathing.
Even from a very moderate motion beats of heart are fearfully aggravated.
Far advanced œdema of feet in a girl æt. 14, dependent on hypertrophy of heart.

Stitches between shoulder blades on drawing a long breath.
All parts of back and small of back seem stiff, as if he had been injured, or from overlifting.
Pains in small of back, while sitting.

Pressure on right shoulder extending to deltoid muscle, preventing one from raising arm.
Sensation as if sprained in right thumb, hindering writing ; cannot hold pen.

Pain in hip, < in forenoon ; free from it after midnight.
Restlessness in legs, must change position continually.
Pain as from a sprain in left ankle.
Pain in first joint of big toe, as if it were pulled out.

Rest : ciliary neuralgia >.
Sitting : pain in small of back.
Must double up : cramps in bladder ; burning in urethra.
Is inclined to stretch.
Cannot hold pen : pain in thumb.
Cannot raise arm : pressure on right shoulder.
Must change position continually : restlessness in legs.
Motion : painful thrust through brain ; neuralgia in eyes <.
Must walk very carefully : cramps in bladder.

Forenoon : pain in hip.
Evening : chilliness.
Night : pain in eyes < ; spasms in bladder, disturbing sleep.
After midnight : free from pain in hip.

Warm food : causes pain in back teeth.

Chilliness in evening, must go to bed, is inclined to stretch.
Dry heat over whole body, with pain in corona glandis and redness of prepuce ; burning on genitals, > from perspiration and ceasing when going to bed.
Perspiration during sleep, only in face.

Periodic : pains in eyes.
Every other quarter of an hour for eight hours : tenesmus of bladder.
For whole hour : efforts to pass urine.

Right : pain beginning in side of forehead ; pain from beneath temporal bone ; pain in right side of top of head ; painful thrust through hemisphere of brain ; pain in eyeball ; paralysis of side ; pain in ear ; pain in inguinal hernia ; pain on side of rectum an inch above anus ; pressure on shoulder ; sensation as if sprained in thumb.
Left : pain in last lower back tooth ; piercing pain in upper molar ; pain as from a sprained ankle.
From within outward : pain from beneath temporal bone to frontal bone.
Backward : pain in forehead.

As if a sharp corner were pressing against top of head ; as if skull would be pressed outward by a sharp plug ; as if inner portion of eye would be torn out ; eye-ball as if crushed, or as if pressed asunder ; as if tooth would be torn out ; as if tooth would be raised ; as if tongue had been burned ; as if hernia would protrude ; burning as from a wound in rectum ; as if an angular body were being pressed inward in rectum ; as from salt in a wound in anus ; sighing as if he were climbing a high, steep mountain ; as if air she inhaled did not reach pit of stomach ; as if small of back had been injured ; as if right thumb were sprained ; as if ankle were sprained ; as if first joint of big toe were pulled out.
Pain : in right eyeball ; in last left lower back tooth ; in right inguinal region ; in rectum ; in small of back ; in hip ; in l. ankle ; in joint of big toe ; in corona glandis.
Sharp pain : from right side of forehead through brain and coming out at occiput.
Violent pain : in glans penis ; in urethra ; in small of back.
Sharp shooting pain : through eye back into brain ; behind ear forward to eye ; from one tooth to another Severe sharp crampy pains : in bladder.
Piercing nervous pain : in left upper molar.
Violent burning biting pains : in bladder ; in urethra.
Stitches in rectum : between shoulder blades.
Jerking sticking pain : at posterior portion of parietal bone.
Painful jerking thrust : through right hemisphere of brain.
Twinging pain : in right temporal bone into ear.
Pressing asunder pain : in head ; in right ear ; above nasal bone.
Pressing pain : from beneath right temporal bone ; in right side of top of head ; beneath skull ; on right side of rectum ; on r. shoulder.
Fine sticking pain : in various teeth ; in glans penis.
Cramps : in bladder ; in abdomen.
Burning : on tongue ; in rectum ; in anus ; in sphincter vesica ; in urethra ; on genitals.
Heat over whole body.
Soreness : in urethra.
Painful jerks : in forehead.
Restlessness : in legs.
Tightness : in upper part of left chest.
Heaviness : in lower part of thorax ; of chest.
Fulness : in pit of stomach.
Distension : in pit of stomach.
Oppression : of chest.
Tickling : in region of ovaries.
Itching : in region of ovaries.

Ciliary neuralgia.
Dropsy caused by defective heart ; abdominal dropsy ; anasarca after any debilitating, chronic diseases, and particularly in those connected with cachectic affections.

Touch : painful from soreness in urethra.
Pressure : pain in head <.
Scratching or rubbing does not > itching in ovaries.

Girl, æt. 14 ; hypertrophy of heart and dropsy.
Young lady, æt. 16, after jumping from a carriage while horse was running away ; sprained ankle.
Woman, æt. 32, single, suffering six months ; affection of heart.
Woman, æt. 65 ; dropsy.
Woman, has had much trouble and sorrow ; affection of heart.

Compare : Laurocerasus .

A tincture is made of the fresh flower-buds.

Trembling of whole body. ▶ Stitches in various muscular parts. ▶ Restlessness, with constant running about, shortness of breath and oppression of chest. ▶ Weariness in morning and seemed to have had no sleep, with aching in all bones, especially bruised feeling in thighs.

Morose. ▶ Joyless, satisfied with nothing.

▶ Pressing-asunder pain, so that he almost lost his thoughts; pain beneath skull as if skull would be pressed outward by a plug. ▶ Pain as from heat of sun. ▶ Painless compression in brain from all sides. ▶ Heaviness; and dizziness. ▶ Vertigo and obstruction in forehead. ▶ Shooting from right frontal bone through brain and out at occiput. ▶ Painful jerks in forehead shooting backward. ▶ Pain in right frontal bone, extending through brain into occiput. ▶ Pressure outward in forehead; in right eminence; beneath left bone; in sinciput; in right side of sinciput after dinner; in F., taking away his senses. ▶ Sore pain in forepart of head, amel. thinking intently about it. ▶ Twinging in right temporal bone, extending outward; in right T. bone, extending into ear. ▶ Acute nervous pain in upper part of right temporal bone, agg. pressure. ▶ Pressure outward beneath upper part of right T. bone; P. outward extending from beneath right temporal bone to frontal bone, agg. pressure. ▶ Pain in right side of vertex as if a sharp corner pressed against it. ▶ Jerking sticking posteriorly in left parietal bone. ▶ Jerking thrust through right hemisphere of brain on motion. ▶ Nervous pain in left side of occiput, that took away his thoughts. ▶ Pain extending outward in occiput; in left side of bone. ▶ Pain in O. in stooping, so that his thoughts vanished; sore P. in left side of O., extending forward and into some left teeth. ▶ Pressure outward in left side of occipital bone. ▶ Sticking in scalp on occiput.

▶ Pain in right ball as if inner part of eye would be torn out. ▶ Lids closed though she was not worry. ▶ Itching in left inner canthus; in right outer, agg. margin of lids.

Ciliary neuralgia, severe pain in the right eyeball, as if the eye would burst, shooting like lightning through the brain, to the occiput, sometimes involving all the parts around the eye. ▶ Chorio-retinitis in myopia. ▶ Irido-choroditis. ▶ Irido-cyclitis. ▶ Opacities of the vitreous.

Numerous cases of dysuria, usually neuralgic in origin.

Like its relative Laurocerasus, it has been found useful in respiratory and cardiac complaints, dyspnœa, with palpitation, sense of suffocation, etc. ▶ Cardiac dropsy. ▶ Enlargement of the heart, with œdema of the feet.

Pain in left ear; pressing asunder in right. ▶ Pressing-asunder pains above nasal bones. ▶ Tickling in middle of right nostril as if he would sneeze. ▶ Irritation to sneeze and sneezing. ▶ Itching sticking on upper part of malar-bone.

▶ Sticking in various; in left lower incisors. ▶ Piercing nervous pain in last upper molar. ▶ Nervous pain in last left lower molar as if it would be taken out. ▶ Pain as if teeth would be taken out; the pain also shoots from one to another. ▶ Wrenching pain in last lower molar; in several molars when anything warm is taken into mouth. ▶ Bubbling pain in last right upper molar as if it were taken out. ▶ Pain in second left upper anterior molar. ▶ Pain as from cold water in mouth; P. in left lower incisor and canine as from a cold drink immediately after a warm one. ▶ Indescribable sensation in several, compelling him to bite them together, which relieved. ▶ Tongue covered with white mucus posteriorly, clean in middle. ▶ Sticking in right side of tip of T. ▶ Burning in tongue as if it had been burnt, amel. when eating, but returning. ▶ Itching crawling in tip of tongue and in anterior teeth. ▶ Taste slimy. ▶ Taste bitter in morning. ▶ T. pasty after dinner.

Pinching in right submaxillary gland. ▶ Scraping, causing hacking cough; S. in evening on going to sleep, with rawness, provoking cough. ▶ Crawling, causing hacking cough; C. upward in pharynx, provoking cough.

Seized with hunger at times, but satiated after a few morsels. ▶ Satiated constantly. ▶ Nausea, with loathing of food and drink, so that he must lie down, then frequent diarrhœa. ▶ Distention of pit; after a few spoonfuls of soup; with shortness of breath, so that she must rest three or four times on a flight of stairs. ▶ Pressure in pit so that she could scarcely breathe.

▶ Ascites, with loss of appetite, scanty micturition, hard, nodular stool discharged with pain in rectum. ▶ Cutting transversely through, as before diarrhœa, preventing sleep. ▶ Cramps from incarceration of flatus; C. amel. bending forward, with pain on breathing; obliging careful walking so that A. should not be shaken, otherwise aggravation of urinary troubles. ▶ Colic, then profuse diarrhœa; C., with desire for stool as after taking cold; as if he had eaten much fruit and then drunk water; as after cold, wet weather; as before diarrhœa; twisting, with incomplete emission of flatus, as before diarrhœa. ▶ Constriction so that she could not lie on back or sides. ▶ Itching crawling beneath skin.

Sticking in right posterior and lower lobe of liver, which in walking takes away his breath. ▶ Pain in hepatic region; agg. standing; beneath right lobe of liver. ▶ Pain in upper A. ▶ Pinching in spots in right side. ▶ Pain in right side at night, so that she could not lie upon it; as if something were forcing through right side opposite naval; in right side below umbilicus. ▶ Swashing like a bladder filled with liquid in right side of hypogastrium. ▶ Sticking in right groin, amel. pressure. ▶ Cramp in bladder from pressure of flatus, so that he must bend double. ▶ Pressure outward in region of right inguinal ring, as if a hernia would force through.

Bleeding after hard stool. ▶ Involuntary discharge of offensive water at night in a case of ascites, then the swelling in right side of abdomen constantly diminished and the heaviness caused by the swelling disappeared from the side. ▶ Cramplike pain as if an angular body pressed inward in right side of R. an inch above anus. ▶ Cramplike bubbling in R. when sitting. ▶ Burning in A. as from salt in a wound, after slimy diarrhœa. ▶ Itching in A. ▶ Ineffectual desire for stool.

Thin, but sluggish. ▶ Hard and not daily. ▶ Like that of a dog, in small, broken pieces, with sticking in rectum.

▶ Tenesmus of bladder every quarter of an hour. ▶ Burning pain in sphincter. ▶ Burning biting in bladder and urethra, with efforts to urinate. ▶ Cramp in bladder preventing sleep at night. ▶ Ulcerative pain in urethra so that he dared not take hold of it. ▶ Burning biting in urethra. ▶ Burning pains on ineffectual efforts to urinate, so that he must bend up. ▶ Momentary relief as the urine passes, but there remains sticking in glans, which causes spasm of urethra, with tenesmus recti. ▶ He is hurriedly impelled to urinate, but the urine seems to pass into glans and then to return and cause pain in urethra. ▶ Strangury. ▶ Obliged to make great pressure to urinate. ▶ Micturition six or seven times at night, of half a pint each time, preceded by the opposite condition. ▶ Micturition in a thready form, with pressure to stool. ▶ (Micturition in two streams, as if urethra had two openings.). ▶ Urine biting and hot. ▶ Urine scanty and brown. ▶ U. clear, light wine-yellow, depositing a sediment varying from white to sky-blue.

Prepuce retracted from glans and penis small. ▶ Pinching on left side of scrotum. ▶ Agreeable itching in lower part of scrotum, amel. scratching. ▶ Painful throbbing in female. ▶ Leucorrhœa making her weak; left excoriating and staining yellow. ▶ Discharge of blood from vagina daily for eight or ten weeks, more watery and longer it lasted. ▶ Menses watery. ▶ Menses recurred profusely every fourteen days, with pain in small of back. ▶ Itching tickling in region of ovaries, not amel. scratching.

Voice rough and hoarse. ▶ Tickling in trachea on inspiration, provoking cough. ▶ Crawling in upper part of trachea, causing cough. ▶ Cough from tickling beneath larynx, renewed by holding breath. ▶ Whistling cough. ▶ Respiration anxious, short; R. short and wheezing when walking. ▶ R. difficult, with anxiety about heart. ▶ Breath seems to remain sticking in pit of stomach.

Sticking in middle of left side, not affected by inspiration; S. in right lower posterior sides of ribs on pressure, and pain as from internal suppuration; in fleshy part of left mamma on deep inspiration when walking and sitting, extending to every side and above left shoulder; intermittent, in middle of right side, preventing inspiration. ▶ Pain from talking, with sensation as if she would become hoarse and lose the power to talk; P. beneath sternum and oppression of chest from fulness of pit of stomach and abdomen; pulling tensive, in left side, agg. inspiration; externally on left lower part as if a sharp corner pressed against it. ▶ Bruised pain in large pectoral muscles on touch. ▶ Seemed pressed inward, pain internally on breathing. ▶ Tightness in upper part of left. ▶ Heaviness and oppression; H. in left, obliging deep breathing; in lower part, with anxiety there, often compelling deep breathing.

Pain in nape involving occiput on stooping. ▶ Stiffness of back as from an injury. ▶ Sticking between scapulæ on deep breathing, extending to lumbar vertebræ and taking away his breath. ▶ Pain near spine as if a plug were forced inward two inches below left scapula on stooping. ▶ Sticking from right loin towards umbilicus, taking away his breath; piercing deep inward beneath crest of ilium, taking away his breath, agg. lying backward. ▶ Sensation as from suppuration in lumbar vertebræ, agg. lying, amel. gentle motion, when it extended to hip-joint and caused a sensation as if ligaments were too short, then he cannot lie on either side on account of pain in hip. ▶ Pain in small of back; when sitting.

Suppurative pain in left axillary glands. ▶ Swollen sensation in left axillary gland. ▶ Pain on top of right shoulder, ending in deltoid, preventing him from raising arm. ▶ Paralytic pain in left shoulder-joint, extending across chest; in left elbow, extending to wrist. ▶ Pinching in right elbow, with pain on motion. ▶ Forearm, jerking pain in left ; P. as from a blow on left ; P. as if burnt on outer side of right; tensive P. in muscles of left impeding motion; P. as from stiffness in right when writing, so that he could scarcely hold the pen; cramplike pressure on outer side of right, agg. grasping. ▶ Wrenching pain in right wrist during rest. ▶ Pain in right wrist as if a bursa would form. ▶ Cramplike constriction in right hand, extending to tips of fingers.

Pinching shooting in right thumb, then in left. ▶ Constriction in two right middle. ▶ Pain between left thumb and index; wrenching, in right thumb when writing, so that he nearly dropped the pen; spasmodic, in left thumb; as from stiffness in right thumb; as if burned on outer side of right little; pulling P. extending from left through arm into left pectoral muscles. ▶ Painful pulling forward in left thumb. ▶ Painful drawing in right fourth. ▶ Bruised pain in ball of little; in metacarpal joint of left thumb. ▶ Paralytic pain in right thumb.

Staggering. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Needle-like sticking here and there in thighs and nates, so that he scratches, which causes a sensation of hot needles. ▶ Tearing externally in middle of right thigh. ▶ Pinching high up on inner side of right thigh. ▶ Pain in middle of right thigh; P. in hip, agg. forenoon, scarcely felt in afternoon; tensive; on inner surface of left T. ▶ Weariness in hip-joints. ▶ Pinching in hollow of right knee. ▶ Pain in margins of bones of left knee; twitching in left knee; wrenching, in right during rest; sprained, in right; as from stiffness on inner side of left when walking. ▶ Sensation about right knee as from steam. ▶ Weakness of knees; when standing. ▶ Pain in tendo-achillis as if it would be torn off; P. in tendo-achillis that often is pulsating; as if a plug were pressed against inner side of left calf; bruised, in middle of left fibula; paralytic, extending upward in right leg. ▶ Sprained pain in left ankle; below left outer malleolus. ▶ Suppurating pain in right sole. ▶ Sticking in ball of left great toe. ▶ Pain in great toe, extending forward, as if last phalanges would be pulled off. ▶ Tense pain in left toes.

Seems tense on thighs and calves on ascending stairs, with swollen sensation in the parts. ▶ Itching sticking in various parts at night, waking him, amel. scratching. ▶ Itching in middle of right thigh externally, pimples after scratching; I. in tips of various fingers, as if frozen; sticking, on inner side of thigh and on back, that at last, if he stopped scratching, changed to twitching or pulsation.

Fell asleep when reading after dinner. ▶ Slept quietly for some hours on becoming warm in bed, but no more all night. ▶ Sleep light. ▶ Sleep restless, she was wakeful almost all night. ▶ When she woke after a few hours' sleep she was as wide awake as if she had slept all night. ▶ Early waking. ▶ Later falling asleep and early waking, but seemed to have slept enough. ▶ Sleep mingled with dreams and fantasies. ▶ Dream of having boils. ▶ Dream that he was writing on a table covered with dirty and as he moved the clean paper it became smeared with butter and fat.

Chilly and stretchy; C. towards evening. ▶ Burning on legs, so that he must pulls off his boots. ▶ General dry heat, with redness of prepuce and redness and painfulness of gland; dry heat except on arms, agg. genitals, partly amel. sweat, amel. in bed. ▶ Sweat on face during sleep.

Pressing pain beneath the skull.
Shooting from the right side of the forehead through the brain to the occiput.
Twinging in the right temple from within outward; and into the ear.
Jerking, thrusting, shooting, bursting pains through the right hemisphere of the brain.

Pain through the right eyeball, as if the eye would burst (at times extending through the brain to the occiput).

Violent shooting or wrenching pains in the teeth, < anything warm.

Cramp-like pain in the region of the bladder; must bend double as from pressure of gas.

Cramp-like pain as from an angular body in the right side of rectum, just above anus.

Tenesmus of the bladder.
Burning pain in the sphincter.
Burning biting in the bladder and urethra, with frequent efforts to urinate.
Burning pain with ineffectual efforts to urinate; has to bend double.
On urinating the urine seems to pass into the glans penis and then return, causing extreme pain in urethra.

Short anxious respiration; often with palpitation and suffocation.
Tightness and heaviness of the chest, obliging deep breathing.

Stiffness as from an injury, especially when sitting.