Prickly Ash
- Its specific action is on the nervous system and mucous membranes.
- Paralysis, especially hemiplegia.
- Painful haemorrhages, after-pains, neuralgic dysmenorrhoea, and rheumatic affections, offer a therapeutic field for this remedy, especially in patients of spare habit and nervous, delicate organization.
- Indigestion from over-eating or from too much fluid.
- Sluggish capillary circulation.
- Neurasthenia, poor assimilation, insomnia, occipital headache.
- Increases mucous secretion of mouth and stimulates the secretion from all glands with ducts opening in the mouth.
Mind
- Nervous, frightened.
- Mental depression.
Head
- Feels full.
- Weight and pain on vertex.
- Pain over eyes, throbbing pressure over nose, pressure in forehead; head seems divided; ringing in ears.
- Occipital headache.
- Sick headache with dizziness and flatulence.
Face
- Neuralgia of lower jaw.
- Dryness of mouth and fauces.
- Pharyngitis (Wyethia).
Abdomen
- Griping and diarrhoea.
- Dysentery, with tympanites, tenesmus; inodorous discharges.
Female
- Menses too early and painful.
- Ovarian neuralgia, with pain in loins and lower abdomen; worse, left side, extending down the thigh, along genito-crural nerves.
- Neuralgic dysmenorrhoea, with neuralgic headaches; pain in back and down legs.
- Menses thick, almost black.
- After-pains (Arnica; Cup; Cham).
- Leucorrhoea at time of menses.
- Neurasthenic patients who are thin, emaciated; poor assimilation with insomnia and occipital headache.
Respiratory
- Aphonia.
- Constant desire to take a long breath; oppression of chest.
- Dry cough, day and night.
Extremities
- Paralysis of left side following spinal disorders.
- Numbness of left side; impairment of nerves of motion.
- Hemiplegia.
- Pain in nape, extending down back.
- Sciatica; worse, hot weather.
- Anterior, crural neuralgia (Staph).
- Left arm numb.
- Neuralgic shooting pain, as from electricity, all over limb.
Sleep
- Hard and unrefreshing; dreams of flying.
- Sleeplessness in neurasthenics.
Relationship
- Compare:
- Gnaph; Cimicif; Staph; Mezer;
- Piscidia-White dogwood--(a nerve sedative. Insomnia due to worry, nervous excitement, spasmodic coughs; pains of irregular menstruation; regulates the flow. Neuralgic and spasmodic affections. Use tincture in rather material doses).
Dose
- First to sixth potency.
