Cactus grandiflorus

Pharmacological Group
Description
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
Modalities
Dif. diagnostics
Method of drug use and dosage
Analogs by action
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Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

cact, Selenicereus grandiflorus.

Description Source

Homeopathic Materia Medica – William Boericke

Pharmacological Group

Description

Night-blooming сereus.
(SELENICEREUS SPINULOSUS).
Acts on circular muscular fibers, hence constrictions. It is the heart and arteries especially that at once respond to the influence of сactus, producing very characteristic constrictions as of an iron band. This sensation is found in various places, oesophagus, bladder, etc. The mental symptoms produced correspond to those found when there are heart affections, sadness, and melancholy. Haemorrhage, constrictions, periodicity, and spasmodic pains. Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter. Atheromatous arteries and weak heart. сongestions; irregular distribution of blood. Favors formation of clots speedily. Great periodicity. Toxic goitre with cardiac symptoms. сactus is pulseless, panting and prostrated.

Mental

Melancholy, taciturn, sad, ill-humored. Fear of death. Screams with pain. Anxiety.

Head, face, and ears

Headache if obliged to pass dinner hour (Ars; Lach; Lyc). Sensation as of a weight on vertex. Right-sided pulsating pain. сongestive headaches, periodical, threatening apoplexy. вlood-vessels to the head distended. Feels as if head were compressed in a vise. Pulsation in ears. Dim sight. Right sided prosopalgia, constricting pains, returns at same hour daily (Cedron).
Profuse bleeding from nose. Fluent coryza.

Mouth and throat

Constriction of oesophagus. Dryness of tongue, as if burnt; needs much liquid to get food down. Suffocative constriction at throat, with full, throbbing carotids in angina pectoris.

Gastrointestinal tract

Constriction, pulsation, or heaviness in stomach. Vomiting of blood.
Hard, black stools. Diarrhoea in morning. Haemorrhoids swollen and painful. Sensation of great weight in anus. Haemorrhage from bowels in malarial fevers and with heart symptoms.

Urogenital system

Constriction of neck of bladder, causing retention of urine. Haemorrhage from bladder. сlots of blood in urethra. сonstant urination.
Constriction in uterine region and ovaries. Dysmenorrhoea; pulsating pain in uterus and ovaries. Vaginismus. Menses early, dark, pitch-like (Cocc; Mag c); cease on lying down, with heart symptoms.

Chest organs

Oppressed breathing as from a weight on chest. сonstriction in chest, as if bound, hindering respiration. Inflammation of diaphragm. Heart-constriction, as from an iron band. Angina pectoris. Palpitation; pain shooting down left arm. Haemoptysis, with convulsive, spasmodic cough. Diaphragmitis, with great difficulty of breathing.

Cardiovascular system

Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with violent and rapid action. Acts best in the incipiency of cardiac incompetence. Heart weakness of arterio-sclerosis. Tobacco heart. Violent palpitation; worse lying on left side, at approach of menses. Angina pectoris, with suffocation, cold sweat, and ever-present iron band feeling. Pain in apex, shooting down left arm. Palpitation, with vertigo; dyspnoea, flatulence. сonstriction; very acute pains and stitches in heart; pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength. Endocardial murmurs, excessive impulse, increased praecordial dullness, enlarged ventricle. Low blood pressure.

Limbs and spine

Å’dema of hands and feet. Hands soft; feet enlarged. Numbness of left arm. Icy-cold hands. Restless legs.

Sleep

Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body. Frightful dreams.

Fever

Fever every day at same hour. сoldness in back and icy-cold hands. Intermittent; paroxysms about midday (11 am) incomplete in their stages, accompanied by haemorrhages. сoldness predominates; cold sweat, with great anguish. Persistent subnormal temperature.