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Prunus Padus

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Prunus Padus · Bird Cherry · "The Bird Cherry Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the head, heart, and digestive tract, producing sensations of pressure and tumultuous activity.

📖 Clarke writes:

Cerasus padus. Padus racemosa. P. vulgaris. Bird cherry. N. O. Rosaceae. Tincture of leaves and bark of small twigs collected when in blossom.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Marked symptoms in head, rectum, chest, and heart

•Pains are pressive in head

•Sticking pains in rectum

•Pressive pains beneath sternum

•Heart-beats are tumultuous

Modalities

•Symptoms aggravated by pressure

•Symptoms aggravated by sitting

•Symptoms aggravated by standing

•Symptoms aggravated by stooping

•Symptoms aggravated by walking

Botanical & Historical Context

•Proved by Lembke

•Classed with the Cherries

•Known in Scotland as the Hayberry

•Fruit is small, black, and nauseous to the taste

•Used in the North of Europe for a palatable liqueur

•Juice is expressed and drunk with milk

•Residue of the fruit is kneaded into cakes

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Pulsating feeling under the skin at the root of the nose with visible trembling.

Clarke

Pressure behind the lower sternum as if a heavy weight is lying on it.

Clarke

Tumultuous heartbeats that are felt in the neck and shake the head.

Clarke

Drawing pain in the abdomen and umbilical region aggravated by pressure.

Clarke

Sticking pains in the rectum while sitting or walking.

Clarke

Headache characterized by dull pressure in the forehead and base of the brain.

Clarke

Pupils are notably dilated.

Clarke

Profuse bright-yellow urine.

Clarke

General sensation of weakness extending from the neck into the arms.

Clarke

Pulse is very slow and small.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤Head

Dull, heavy, or pressive headaches, often with a sensation of the head sinking to the right.

Dulness, with dull pressure in forehead.

Momentary sensation as if head would sink to r. side.

Head heavy, confused.

Pressure at base of brain.

Pressure

on forehead with external heat

in l. temple.

Heaviness of occiput with dull pain extending transversely through occiput.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Pressure

headache

abdominal pain

📚 Sources & References

✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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