CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS

CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS. [Cactus] Night blooming Cereus. Rubini. Cactaceae.

► Taciturn, unwilling to speak a word, or to answer. ► Cries, knows not why ; consolation aggravates. ► Unconquerable sadness. ► Fear of death ; he believes his disease incurable. ► Hypochondriacal.

► Vertigo from congestion ; face red, bloated, pulsation in the brain ; madness, anxiety.

► Congestion to the brain, bloodshot eyes, coma, suffocation, flushes in face ; fever, from exposure to sun's rays. ► Heavy pain on the vertex, better by pressure, but worse from talking or strong light. ► Pulsation in temple, as if the skull would burst ; intolerable at night. ► Headache worse right side, caused by excitement, as at opera ; wine ; belated dinner.

► Dimness of the sight ; weakness of sight returning periodically.

► Hardness of hearing from congestion ; pulsation in the ears ; noise like running water or buzzing, after otitis from checked sweat.

► Profuse nosebleed, soon ceasing.

► Face : blue ; cold sweat ; pale ; flushed. ► Prosopalgia right-sided, chronic ; worse from slightest exertion, tolerable only when lying still in bed brought on by wine, music, strong light, or missing dinner at the usual hour.

► Fetid breath in the morning.

► Constriction of throat, exciting a constant desire to swallow. ► Constriction of the oesophagus ; must drink large quantities to force the fluid into the stomach.

► Loss of appetite.

► After eating, weight and distress in the stomach. ► After dinner, pulsation (in coeliac axis) behind stomach.

► Nausea in the morning, continues all day. ► Acrid, sour fluid, rising into the throat and mouth, making food taste acid. ► Vomiting of blood.

► Constrictive feeling at the scrobiculus cordis, extending to the hypochondria, impeding breathing. ► Burning ; pulsating in the stomach.

► Engorgement of liver ; acute or chronic from heart disease. ► Feeling as of a cord tightly tied around lower part of chest ; marking out the attachment of the diaphragm. ► Sharp pains shooting through diaphragm and up into chest.

► Insupportable heat in abdomen, as though something burned him internally. ► Wandering pains in the umbilical region, which cease and recur periodically.

► Morning diarrhoea, preceded by great pains. ► Sensation of weight in anus, strong desire for stool, but nothing passes. ► Pricking in anus, as from pins, ceasing on slight friction.

► Constant desire to urinate. ► Urine : profuse, straw-colored ; passes in drops, with much burning ; constriction of neck of bladder ; suppressed in fever. ► Haematuria ; urination prevented by clots.

► Menses too soon ; black, pitch-like. ► Menstruation with constrictive spasm of uterus ; pains agonizing, worse evening ; flow scanty, ceases when lying down. ► Painful constriction around the pelvis, extending gradually towards the stomach, causing a sensation as of a great blow in the region of kidneys, making her cry out. ► Pulsating pain in ovarian regions ; pains extend down thighs, return periodically at the same time each day.

► Inflammation of the mammae : sensation of fulness in the chest ; oversensitive to cold air.

► Voice low, hoarse ; constriction of the chest.

► Oppression of breathing on going up stairs. ► Oppression of the chest as from a great weight, difficult breathing ; uneasiness, as if an iron band prevented normal motion of chest.

► Spasmodic cough, with copious mucous expectoration. ► Cough, with thick yellow sputa, like boiled starch.

► Haemoptysis, with marked arterial excitement (but less fever and restlessness than Acon.) ; convulsive cough. ► Bronchitis, with palpitation of the heart ; bronchial catarrh, from overaction of the heart. ► Continual rattling of mucus ; oppressed breathing ; cannot lie in a horizontal position ; attacks of anxiety and suffocation. ► Prickling pains in chest, bloody sputa ; hard, quick, vibrating pulse ; sharp, wandering pains in chest and scapular region. ► Feeling of constriction in the chest, impeding speech. ► Congestion to the chest, which prevents lying down ; palpitation ; constriction of the chest.

► Sensation of constriction in heart, as if an iron hand prevented its normal movements. ► Pricking pains impeding breathing and movements of the body ; oppression ; cannot lie on the left side ; blue face ; pulse quick, throbbing, tense and hard. ► Dull, heavy pain, worse from pressure ; suffocating respiration ; face blue ; oedema, especially of the left hand and of the legs to the knees ; feet icy-cold ; pulse intermittent. ► Pains in the apex of the heart shooting down left arm to the ends of the fingers ; feeble pulse ; dyspnoea. ► Endocardial murmurs ; excessive impulse ; increased precordial dulness, enlarged right ventricle. ► Palpitation with vertigo, loss of consciousness, dyspnoea ; worse walking, at night, lying on the left side, at the approach of the menses and from any exertion. ► Palpitation preceded by rumbling in the stomach. ► Palpitation of long standing, caused by an unfortunate love affair. ► Irregularity of the heart's action, at times frequent, at others slow ; great irritation of the cardiac nerves ; enlarged left ventricle.

► Sensation of constriction in the middle of the sternum, as if compressed by iron pincers, with difficult breathing ; worse from motion. ► Rheumatism of the muscles of the chest.

► Formication and weight in the arms. ► Oedema of the hands, mostly of the left.

► Restlessness of legs, cannot keep them still. ► Oedema of legs, skin shining ; dents remain a long time.

► Motion : 30. Walking : 29. Ascending : 26. Exertion : 8, 29. Lying : 8, 23. Cannot lie : 40 ; horizontally : 28 ; on left side : 29.

► General weakness, prostration, great depression, sleepless. ► Fainting.

► Sleepless without cause ; or from pulsation in pit of stomach or in ears. ► Delirium at night ; on awaking it ceases, but returns in sleep.

► Morning : 12, 16, 20. Evening : 23, 26. Night : 3, 29, 37. 11 A.M. and 11 P.M. : 40.

► Exposure to sun : 3, 40. ► Cold air : 24.

► Coldness in back and cold hands. ► Chill not relieved by covering ; returns the same hour each day ; regular paroxysms at 11 A.M. and 11 P.M. ► Fever, intermittent, with congestion to head, flushes in face, suppressed urine, pains in bladder, lancinating in heart, violent vomiting ; sweat does not appear ; after exposure to sun. ► Heat after chill, with dyspnoea, headache and thirst ; with insensibility till midnight, then shortness of breath and inability to remain lying ; followed by profuse sweat, with great thirst.

► Returning periodically : 5, 19, 23, 40.

► Right : 3, 8, 29. Left : 32. ► Skin symptoms, lower left to upper right ; then lower right to upper left.

► Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter and tighter.

► Organic diseases of the heart. ► Dropsical affections.

► Pressure : 3, 39. Friction : 20.

► Dry, scaly herpes without itching ; appeared first on left inner malleolus, next on outer side of right elbow ; then on right inner malleolus, last on outer side of left elbow.

► Antidotes to Cactus, Acon., Camphor., Cinchon. Compare : Acon. (in hemorrhages, cardiac excitement, etc., but later more anguish and restlessness) ; Magnolia grand. (heart) ; Convallaria maj. (heart).