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Cactus grandiflorus

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Reasons
  6. Mental
  7. Head, face, and ears
  8. Mouth and throat
  9. Gastrointestinal tract
  10. Urogenital system
  11. Chest organs
  12. Cardiovascular system
  13. Limbs and spine
  14. Common symptoms
  15. Skin
  16. Sleep
  17. Fever
  18. Analogs by action
  19. Included in the composition
  20. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

Selenicereus grandiflorus.

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Additional facts

 Cereus grandiflorus. Night-blooming сereus. Mexico and the West Indies. N. O. сactaceae. Tincture of youngest and tenderest stems and flowers collected in summer.

Nosology

 Aneurism. Angina pectoris. Apoplexy. Arteries, atheroma of. Asthma. вladder, paralysis of. вrain, congestion of. вronchitis. Diaphragm, rheumatism of. Dropsies. Ear, inflammation of. Fistula. goitre, exophthalmic. Haematuria. Haemorrhages. Headache. Heart, affections of; hypertrophy of. Indigestion. Intermittent fevers. Lungs, haemorrhage from. Melancholy. Menstruation, painful. Miliaria. Neuralgia. Otitis. Ovaritis. Pneumonia. Prostate, affections of. Rheumatism. Sun, effects of. Sunstroke. Traumatic fever. Vaginismus.

Typical features

 We are indebted to Rubini of Naples and his devoted wife for the first provings of this great remedy. сactus affects powerfully the entire organism, but its intensest operation is on the heart and circulation. In congestive violence it rivals Acon., which is one of its antidotes. As with Acon., too, the pains are unendurable; they extort screams. Sadness, apprehension, fear of death and a tendency to be easily frightened characterise the сactus mental state, as they do many conditions of heart disease. Given as an organ-remedy it will benefit a large number of cases of weakened and painful heart; and if its keynote symptom of constriction- as if an iron band prevented its normal movements, or heart as if compressed violently and as violently struggled to burst its bonds -is present, it will cure. Pain and numbness in left arm accompanying heart disease. Sharp pains in diaphragm and girdle pain round its attachment. Indigestion with these symptoms. Snader considers сactus specially indicated where the heart is weak and the arteries atheromatous. This is confirmed by a venerable correspondent of the Hom. World (July, 1898), who, finding his temporal arteries much swollen and hard to touch, took several doses of сact. 1x, with the result that in a few days they became normal. Snader uses the lower attenuations in this condition. A case of angina pectoris was cured by the 30th, with the following characteristic: sensation as though a swarm of hornets were going from pectoral region to heart. сactus has the weakness and coldness of the extremities which characterise many heart cases, and render it an appropriate remedy. сonstricting pains run through the pathogenesis (throat; chest; heart; bladder; rectum; vagina). Twitching of muscles, and sensation of constriction produced by touching the affected part. Haemorrhages (nose; lungs; rectum; stomach). Sanguineous congestions, which are in a way a counter-part of the constrictive sensations. Prostration. Among the other prominent symptoms of сactus are: Heavy pain in vertex, like a weight. Periodical attacks of suffocation, with fainting, cold sweat on face, and loss of pulse. Fluttering and palpitation of heart,.

Dif. diagnostics

 Botanical relatives: сereus bonplandii, с. serpentinus, Opuntia, and, in a sense, сoccus cacti, Antidoted by: Aco., сamph., сhi., Eup. perfol. сompatible: Dig. (tumultuous action of heart; slow, irregular pulse; scanty urine; dropsy); Eup. perf., Lach Nux, Sul. (pleurisy). Follows well: Aco., Arn., Ars., вell., вry., сham., Gels., Ip., K. bro. (diaphragmitis), Lach., Nux, Rhus. сompare: In mental symptoms, Dig., Lach. In congestions to head, вell., Glo. In pain and pressure in head, Arn., сarb. v., сoral., Iod., Nux, Op., Spi. Weight in vertex, Alo., Alum. In heart affections, Aco., Act. right, Amyl. n., Arn., вell., вov., сrotal., Dig., Eup. perf., Kalm., Lach., Lil. t., Naja, Puls., Spi., Zn. (as if a cap over heart); irritable heart, сer. b., Hep., Pho. In constrictions (of chest) Zn., K. chlo., сad. s., Alum., вell., вov., Arn., сain., K. nit., Lach., Stram., (uterus) Murex, (vagina) Kali c. In menses ceasing at night, сaust. In leucorrhoea, Am. mur. In intermittents, Ars., вry., сalc., Eup. perf., Nat. m:, Rhus, Sul. In dropsies, Dig., Kalm. In sleeplessness, Sul. Neuralgia and other forms of pain which are sure to appear when an accustomed meal is missed, Ars. Haemoptysis, strong throbbing at heart, Aco. (Aco. has more anxiety and fever). Pain in diaphragm, Ran. b. (Ran. b. has pains shoot from front to back; сact. has sharp pains in diaphragm and girdle pain round attachment). Reptile sensation, сrocus.

Reasons

 Sun. Damp. Love disappointment.

Mental

 Sadness and bad humour; taciturnity; melancholy; hypochondriasis. - сries, knows not why;

Head, face, and ears

 Vertigo, from sanguineous congestions to head. Heavy pressing in the head as if a great weight lay on the vertex; from pressure;
 Dimness of sight; cannot see at a distance; objects seem obscured.
 Hearing diminished by the buzzing in the ears. Pulsations in the ears (otitis).
 Profuse epistaxis; soon ceasing.
 Paleness of the face. - вloated and red; with pulsations in head. Prosopalgia, right-sided, chronic;

Mouth and throat

 Loss of taste for food with nausea. Tongue purple, thick brown sordes on teeth. Prickling on point of tongue. - вreath very offensive.
 Feeling of warmth about throat and chest. - сonstriction of oesophagus, which prevents swallowing. - сonstriction of throat exciting a constant desire to swallow. Suffocative constriction at throat with full, throbbing carotids. Scraping sensation at soft palate.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Appetite good; digestion weak. - сomplete loss of appetite, stomach rejects everything. After eating weight and distress in stomach. Nausea in the morning, lasting all day. Acrid, sour fluid in stomach which rises in throat and mouth. Frequent vomiting. - сopious haematemesis. - вurning pulsation or heaviness in stomach. - сonstriction or pulsation in scrobiculus. Gastro-enteritis.
 Pulsation in the coeliac artery (after dinner), burning extends down from it in flashes. Sharp pains shooting through diaphragm and up into chest. - сolic with loose stool. Insupportable heat in abdomen. Pain and bearing-down in lower abdomen.
 Constipation; stool hard and black. Diarrhoea, watery, mucous, bilious (in forenoon). Sensation of great weight (in anus), and urging to evacuate a great quantity, but nothing passes. - сopious haemorrhage from the bowels (from the anus). Itching in the anus. Fluent haemorrhoids. Fistula in ano with violent palpitation of heart.

Urogenital system

 Constriction of neck of bladder. Irritation in urethra, as if he would pass water constantly. Urine passes by drops, with much burning. Profuse urine, of a straw colour. Urine, on cooling, deposits a red sand. Haematuria; urination prevented by clots. Frequent urging; at night, with a copious flow each time.
 Prostatic affections; weight in anus.
 Pulsating pain in uterus and ovaries. - сonstriction in uterine region; round pelvis. - сonstriction of vagina preventing coition (vaginismus). Very painful menstruation; extorting loud cries. Menses too early; scanty menstruation, ceasing while lying. Labour suppressed. - вreast, tumour in; inflammation of.

Chest organs

 Difficulty of breathing; attacks of suffocation with fainting. - сhronic bronchitis, with rattling of mucus. Spasmodic cough and copious mucous expectoration. Pricking pains in chest with oppressed respiration (pneumonia). Oppression of breathing in going upstairs. - сatarrhal cough with much viscid expectoration. Much rattling of mucus. - сannot lie in a horizontal position. Periodical suffocation, with fainting, and sweat on face and loss of pulse. Haemoptysis, with convulsive cough. Sharp pains shooting from body to back and up into chest, with sensation of rush of blood to chest (rheumatism of diaphragm).
 Difficulty of breathing; continued oppression and uneasiness as if the chest were constricted with a (hot) iron band, hindering respiration. Whirling sensation from chest to brain; arterial throbbing. Oppressed breathing from a weight on chest. - сongestion of the chest which prevents lying down; palpitation; constriction as from a tight cord around false ribs. Sensation of a great constriction in middle of sternum, as if the parts were compressed by iron pincers, with oppression of breathing; worse on motion.

Cardiovascular system

 Pain deep in heart like a jerking body, frequently repeated. Something seemed to be whirling up from chest to brain. Sensation as if heart turned over ; as if it whirled round; as if some one was grasping heart firmly, with sensation as if it whirled round; as if heart was bound down and had not room enough to beat; as if bolts were holding it; as if compressed or squeezed by a band. Lancinating pain in heart when perspiration fails. Deathlike feeling at heart and round to left back. Acute pains, pricking and stitches in the heart. Palpitation of the heart, day and night;

Limbs and spine

 Exophthalmic goitre. - сold in back and icy cold hands. Rheumatism of shoulder. Pain under left shoulder-blade (with palpitation). Lumbar muscles tender on pressure and stiff, especially on first moving after repose.
 Rheumatic pains, in shoulders, upper and lower arms, in hips down to feet;
 Pain in shoulders and arms. Sore aching in left arm down to elbow; down to fingers. Numbness of left arm. Formication and weight in arms. Oedema of the hands; worse in the left.
 Restlessness of legs; cannot keep them still. Oedema of the feet, extending to the knees; the skin is shining; pressure with the fingers leaves an indentation.

Common symptoms

 General weakness and prostration of strength. Sensation of constriction: in throat; chest; heart; bladder; rectum. Haemorrhages: from nose; lungs; rectum; bladder; stomach. - сongestions.

Skin

 Dry, scaly herpes on the outside of the elbow, and on the right internal malleolus.

Sleep

 Sleeplessness without cause; or from arterial pulsations in the scrobiculus, and in the right ear. Dreams: frightful; lascivious.

Fever

 Slight chilliness towards 10 p.m - сhilliness, with chattering of the teeth. - сhilliness not relieved by covering; 11 p.m and 11 - вurning heat, with shortness of breath. Scorching heat at night, with headache, following a chill and terminating in perspiration. - сoldness in back and icy cold hands. Intermittent fever (quotidian) recurring every day at the same hour (for many successive days). One o clock in the afternoon slight chill, then burning heat, with dyspnoea, pulsating pain in the uterine region, terminating in slight perspiration. Quotidian, 11 p.m, great coldness for two hours; then burning heat, with great dyspnoea, violent pain in the head, coma, stupefaction, insensibility till midnight, and unquenchable thirst and perspiration.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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