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Prunus Spinosa

30CPrunus Sp

Sloe · Blackthorn · "The Eye Bursting Headache Remedy"

prun.PlantUncommonPsoric

🎯 It acts specifically on the urinary system, head, and eyes, particularly for neuralgic pains and fluid retention.

📖 Boericke writes:

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

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who may feel a sense of internal pressure or bursting, often with a tendency toward fluid accumulation in the limbs or abdomen.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Shooting from right frontal bone through brain to occiput.

head

Pain in right eyeball, as if it would burst.

head

Ciliary neuralgia.

eyes

Sudden pain in left eye as if it would burst, better by lachrymation.

eyes

Hurriedly impelled to urinate; the urine seems to pass as far as glans, and then returns and causes pain in urethra.

urine

Must press a long time before urine appears.

urine

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for severe, bursting headaches and neuralgic toothaches that are aggravated by heat.

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.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3X to 6X

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Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Prunus Padus →PyrusLaurocerasus →Prunus Virginiana →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Prunus Spinosa is listed in 61 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 14 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Urinary System13 Eyes13 Abdomen7 Head6 Circulatory System4 Locomotor System3 Stomach3 Generalities3 Teeth2 Respiratory System2 Skin2 Male Sexual System1 Female Sexual System1 Nervous System1

See all 61 rubrics for Prunus Spinosa →