Opuntia vulgaris

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 1. OPUNTIA VULGARIS. сACTUS OPUNTIA. Prickly Pear.
 2. OPUNTIA ALBA SPINA. Prickly Pear. N. O. сactaceae. Tincture of flowers of O. vulg. Tincture of stems of O. s. a.

 Diarrhoea, Nausea. Priapism. Spleen, pains in.

 Two kinds of Prickly pear have been proved-Opun. vulg. and Opun. alba spina. вurdick took one or two deep inhalations of the tincture of the flowers of the former. J. H. Fitch (who proved many of the сactaceae) took ten drops of the tincture of the second. The bulk of the symptoms of the proving are Fitch s; but the most peculiar symptom (which has also been verified) is вurdick s: Nausea extending from stomach down into bowels, with sensation as if diarrhoea would set in. Also feeling as if bowels had settled down into lower abdomen. Fitch had actual diarrhoea. All the urinary and genital symptoms were his except Bloody urine, which is an effect of O. vulg., but not вurdick s. сoldness was observed by both provers. The peculiar mental symptoms recalling the swearing tendency of Anac., are Fitch s. Sticking and pricking pains predominate, also numbness and tension.

 Compare: сact., сer. b., Anhal. In nausea and sinking-down sensation in stomach and abdomen, Ipec. вlasphemy, Anac.

 Aberrations of mind; not entirely conscious of it. - вlasphemous mood. Alternately busy and wanting to pray. Alternately praying and swearing; fit of rage on thwarting of plans. Petulant; irritable; vindictive. Omits and transposes letters in writing.

 Tensive feeling in brain. Sensation as if head transfixed with a lance.
 Pain in globe of right eye. - вurning smarting in margin of lids, with feeling of contractions in line of lashes.
 L. nostril bleeds on picking; a little blood and watery mucus.
 Pale face.

 Bites inside of (right) cheek on chewing. Teeth sensitive. Tea tasting insipid. Saliva in mouth.
 Much mucus rises from throat. Throat feels sore, afternoon; choked or pinching feeling round top of larynx. Shuddering on swallowing.

 Poor appetite for breakfast. Went without dinner. Nausea extending from stomach down into bowels, with sensation as if diarrhoea would set in. Nausea with dull, heavy pain in stomach, with feeling as if cramps would set in. Alternate nausea of stomach and bowels.
 Bloated abdomen. Pain through spleen and heart. Sensation as if contents of bowels in lower abdomen were very acrid;
 Urgent desire; stools rather loose. Stool: loose 4 ; evening stool easy at first, afterwards hard; soft, but difficult, with urging in morning; smelling like strong drugs. In straining at stool varicose veins on left side enlarged very greatly.

 Not able to wait. Urine: increased frequency and quantity; increased quantity, but not frequency; bloody.
 Pain in right testicle; priapism, with lascivious desire; drawing pains in right testicle. Emissions. Atrophied appearance of genitals.

 Heaving respiration, which does not oppression at chest. Oppression of chest by a single heaving respiration. - сold shudders right through chest.  Appetite poor.
 Pain in muscles of neck, left side anteriorly, 12.25 , later of right side anteriorly below ear; pain and ache in both sides below ears, coming and going.

 Sticking pains through heart.

 Pain in proximal ends of first and second metacarpal bones of left hand. Pain in left arm, just below elbow, palmar aspect.
 After kneeling or resting on lower limbs they become numb, with tingling and pricking. Pain: in muscles of inner side of left leg; head of fibula; right little toe.

 Prostration.

 Eruption of pimples on neck and behind left ear, bleeding easily.

 At night dream of women.

 Cold, chilly. - сold feet; very chilly in the cold room; coldness of body.