Cereus Serpentinus
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General
Cereus Serpentinus.
N. O. Cactaceae. Tincture of stems.
Clinical
Anger, fits of. Enuresis. Epistaxis. Heart, pains in. Impotence.
Characteristics
The heart was less prominently affected by Cer. serp. than by the other Cacti; but pains in head and a paralysed feeling were experienced. A voluptuous feeling; dwindling of sexual organs; mental irritations were prominent. < On exposure to cold, to which there is great sensitiveness. J. H. Fitch proved Cer. s., as well as Cer. b. Kunze also proved Cer. s.
Relations
Compare:—Cact. g., Cereus bon., Coni.; Pso. (sensitiveness to cold). Anac. (inclined to swear).
Mind
Angry at trifles
Fits of sudden ungovernable rage
Inclined to swear
Prays all night
Makes mistakes, reading or writing.
Head
Dizzy in morning, with mucus in throat
Tensive pain in head and brain
Feeling as if back part of brain were detached from front, and rotten.
Nose
Epistaxis.
Mouth
At dinner bites inside mouth, r. cheek.
Throat
Much tenacious mucus in throat and back of nose.
Urinary Organs
Pain in region of r. kidney
Urging to urinate
Enuresis
Urine yellowish; or pale tea-green.
Male Sexual Organs
Genital organs small and dwindled
Excited genital condition
Emission, seems as if passed in a lump
Emission followed by cutting pain first in one, then in other testicle.
Heart
Paralysed feeling in heart
Pain after exertion, followed by short breath, > by full breath
Afterwards, short sharp pains through heart
Thrusting pains at heart followed by sighing respiration.
Fever
Very sensitive to cold.