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Prunus Virginiana

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Prunus Virginiana · Wild Cherry (Choke-Cherry) · "The Wild Cherry Cough Sedative"

PlantUncommonPsoric✨ Clarke only

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Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 It acts primarily as a tonic for the heart and digestive system while addressing persistent, spasmodic respiratory conditions.

📖 Clarke writes:

Cerasus virginiana. Choke-cherry. N. O. Rosaceae. Cold infusion or tincture of inner bark. Solution of concentrated resinous extract, Prunin.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Irregular, intermittent action of the heart with deficient impulse

•Dilatation of right heart, whether as a result of chronic bronchitis or of mitral stenosis

•Weak digestion, especially of elderly people

•Regarded as a mild form of Hydrocyanic acid

•Dull, heavy feeling in head (from excessive doses)

Temperament & Physical Profile

•Delicate constitution

•Elderly people (for weak digestion)

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Loss of appetite

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Cough, sympathetic with heart troubles

•Dyspepsia with tendency to acidity

•Slow digestion

•Pyrosis

•Persistent coughs acquired in winter, worse at night on lying down

•Spasmodic and asthmatic coughs

•Attacks of wheezing and whistling in trachea and large bronchi

•Cough left behind after an attack of influenza

•Scanty expectoration

•Soreness under sternum

•Cold infusion used from time immemorial

•Ø tincture, in 5- or 10-drop doses, has been most commonly used

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Irregular, intermittent heart action with deficient impulse.

Clarke

Persistent coughs acquired in winter, worsening at night when lying down.

Clarke

Dilatation of the right heart, especially following chronic bronchitis or mitral stenosis.

Clarke

Spasmodic and asthmatic coughs with wheezing and whistling in the trachea.

Clarke

Weak digestion in elderly people with a tendency toward acidity and pyrosis.

Clarke

Cough remaining after an attack of influenza.

Clarke

Dull, heavy feeling in the head from excessive doses.

Clarke

Soreness under the sternum associated with persistent cough.

Clarke

Slow digestion with loss of appetite.

Clarke

📋 Clinical Indications

Conditions Clarke associates with this remedy — no detailed symptom-by-system breakdown exists for this entry.

AcidityAnorexiaDyspepsiaHeart, weakness ofhypertrophy ofirritablePyrosis

Open in Clarke ↗

🔑 Modalities

✨ Clarke Exclusive

↓Worse from

Night

persistent cough

cough when lying down

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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