Common Name
English: Blackthorn / Sloe

can be helpful in the following conditions:

Headache & Neuralgia

• Treats pressing-asunder pain beneath the skull with intense head heaviness.
• Relieves sharp shooting from the right frontal bone through to the occiput.
• Supports neuralgic conditions affecting the head, especially with bursting or lightning-like sensations.
• Eases ciliary neuralgia with piercing pain in the right eyeball.

Eye & Vision

• Useful in ciliary neuralgia with violent eye pain radiating through the brain.
• Prunus spinosa eases bursting pain in one or both eyes—right eye pain radiates to occiput; left eye pain relieved by tear flow.
• Helps in managing irido-choroiditis and opacity of the vitreous humor.

Teeth & Mouth

• Treats neuralgic toothache, with sensation as if the teeth were forcibly extracted.

Abdomen & Bladder

• Eases cramp-like pain in the region of the bladder, especially aggravated by walking.
• Helpful in managing ascites and general abdominal fluid retention.

Rectum & Stool

• Treats difficult, knotty, hard, nodular stools and rectal pain, as if a sharp object were being pressed inward.
• Prunus spinosa soothes burning in the anus following slimy, irritant diarrhea.

Urinary Tract Issues

• Addresses tenesmus of the bladder with frequent, ineffectual urges to urinate.
• Relieves neuralgic dysuria with pain and difficulty initiating urination.
• Useful when there is a peculiar sensation of urine reaching the glans but then receding, causing urethral pain.
• Patient must wait or strain a long time before urine is passed.

Respiratory & Cardiac

• Relieves wheezing and chest oppression, especially noticeable while walking.
• Eases anxious, short respiration during episodes of cardiovascular strain.
• Used in angina pectoris with furious heart pounding triggered even by slight motion.

Skin & Extremities

• Useful in herpes zoster with burning, sensitive skin eruptions.
• Prunus spinosa treats anasarca and morning lassitude after unrefreshing sleep.

• Soothes itching on the fingertips, often described as if they were frostbitten.