Cereus bonplandii

 C. вonplandii, Par met (variety of сerus grandiflorus).
 Natural order: сactaceae.
 Preparation: Tincture of the stems.

 Mind.
 Emotional. Desire to engage at work Desire to have the time all employed. Felt all day an astonishing inclination to be engaged in something useful. Felt a desire to give something quite necessary to myself to another. Desire to be dissolved, especially the trunk (after three hours). Reluctance to take medicine (2nd day). Experienced an agreeably tranquil frame of mind and body. A grateful feeling of dependence on a divine spirit was experienced (2nd day). Not very pleasant in mind. Very much disturbed in mind. Arose feeling miserable (2nd day).
 Praying, or disposition to pray. Very irritable.
 Very irritable; act from impulse (2nd day). Apathetic during attendance at church; could not fix the mind on devotional exercises, effort being strong (2nd day).
 Intellectual. Difficult to keep employed. Very dull all morning; pass the time in a listless manner. Time passed very slowly (5th day).

 Head.
 Vertigo. On rising up from a kneeling posture, dizziness comes over one, followed by sickness at stomach, continuing for some little time. Swimming of the head.
 General head. Felt a feeling as if the head were suspended from some support under the skull and base of the brain (after 10 minutes).
 Head felt drawn to the left backward. Heat feels badly (2nd day).
 Headache (6th day). The effect on the brain and nervous system passes off in 4 or 5 days principally.
 Forehead. Painful sensation in the anterior lobes of the cerebrum, extending from the frontal bone backward (after 6 hours and a half).
 Pain across anterior lobes of brain, just behind os frontis.
 Slight heavy feeling in top of forehead. Pain extending along the external angular process of frontal bone, right side. Pain extending through the forehead, left side, to the occiput (after 20 minutes).
 Pain in right forehead. Momentarily, a painful stunning sensation in the right side of the os frontis. Sensation of a slight burning feeling, extending backward from the right forehead.
 Sensation of pain of a boring nature, extending from the left frontal region deeper and backward (after 10 minutes). Sensation of a pressing feeling in right forehead (after 10 minutes).
 Parietals. Pain verging around and along left parietal bone from left occiput.
 Occiput. Disagreeable feeling in the back of the head, seeming to pass down over the neck and terminate in a disagreeable sensation, an approach to qualmishness at the stomach. Sensation as of a broad bound to back of head, more plainly on the left side. Headache, occipital pain. Headache affecting occiput for quarter of an hour. Severe occipital headache (3rd day). Pain in occiput, running through to the lobes of the cerebrum. Pain in occiput, high up in the head. Felt a decidedly painful drawing sensation in occipital region, soon subsiding. Feeling of being pressed at left occiput, and immediately afterwards a counter pain on left side of forehead, the latter continuing a moment or 2. Slight pressive sensation in the right occiput, from behind forward. On walking out, descending 1 or 2 steps, had a severe pain, forcing from without inwards in the occiput, on a line with the sagittal suture.
 External head. On combing the hair, find it falls out in considerable quantities (2nd day).
 Eye.
 Heavy feeling at the eyes, as in cephalic catarrh (6th day). Rose suffering severe pain in eyes (5th day). Sore feeling at the eyes (6th day). Sore feeling in eyes, as if pained by strong sunlight.
 Orbit. Pain above right eye, passing down over globe of eye.
 Pressive pain in orbits, from before backward. Tenderness at supraorbital notch (after 6 hours and a half).
 Lids. Left eyelid slightly painful when the head is bent to the floor. A little capillary congestion of the conjunctiva.
 Lachrymal apparatus. Swimming eyes.
 Ball. Somewhat painful sensation in globe of left eye.
 Pain through the globe of the right eye. Pain through the globe of the left eye and orbit (after 6 hours and a half).
 Vision. Great sensitiveness to the impulse of light all day (photophobia), (5th day). Strong light painful to eyes (6th day).
 Perception of a cluster of orange-colored spots, round-shaped and symmetrical.
 Ear.
 Pain behind mastoid process, left side, extending backward and upward. Pain through ear and head, commencing at a point at the back of left ear, and running upward and forward diagonally in the direction of the opposite ear and right parietal bone.
 Nose.
 Sneezing, fetid flatus passed from bowels. Accumulation of mucus in both nostrils (3rd day). Hardened mucus from left nostril.
 Mucus from nose, as in catarrh. Dislodge greenish discharges from the right nares; similar discharge in less quantity from the left. Stinging in right nostril. Haggard look (6th day).
 Yellowish hue of the countenance. Awoke before 5 p.m; looked somewhat haggard (2nd day). Pain along right malar bone, running to temple, through to occiput.

 Tongue. Tongue too red to be natural. Deep purplish hue over the whole tongue. Tongue feathery. Sensation of a thread of mucus on the tongue. Tongue feeling rough.
 General Mouth. Mucus adherent to the roof of mouth, cleared by a single effort. сlearing of the hard palate of mucus. Watery sensation, not disagreeable in the mouth. Sensation of saliva in the mouth, which is swallowed, of no particular taste. Sensation of coldness and a metallic taste in the mouth.
 Saliva. Water in mouth. Watery mouth, with some shade of insipidness. Saliva in the mouth (after 10 minutes. 6 drops).
 Throat.
 Mucus in throat. Mucus in the throat, a persistent symptom early in the proving, and quantity abundant. Mucus of a pale greenish color, sometimes colorless of nearly so. It was from the throat, mainly, pharynx, and top of larynx. сlearing of mucus from throat (6th day). Slight uneasiness in throat verging to stomach, with simultaneous congested sensation in both eyes.
 Eructations. Dry eructations from the stomach. Slight painful feeling at epigastrium. Slight sensation of pain in epigastrium at intervals, coming and going in short paroxysms.

 Taste. Taste watery. Alkaline taste. Taste of green vegetables.
 Appetite. Relish for sweet things. Ate light breakfast (2nd day).
 Thirst. Thirstlessness.

 Abdomen.
 Light rumbling in the left side of the abdomen. Slight griping (soon after). Felt a slight griping, accompanied by the beginning of a soreness, extending through the region of the whole portal circulation (after 10 minutes). Pain in left groin, sharp and cutting, as from impacted calculus in the ureter.
 Rectum and Anus.
 Slight desire to evacuate bowels (6 drops).
 Stool.
 Copious and urgent evacuation from the bowels. Felt very well afterwards (after 6 hours and three-quarters). Stool not easy not sufficient (2nd day). Effort to evacuate bowels nearly or quite ineffectual.

 Pain in left kidney (after 4 hours and one-third).
 Pain long-continued in left kidney, as from renal calculus. Quite severe sticking pain in the right kidney (2nd day). Slight pain of sticking character in region of right kidney. Feel pain in right kidney; sore to pressure. Sticking pain in right ureter (2nd day).
 Slight desire to pass urine, lasting for a minute (immediately).
 Micturition. In the night, pass a small quantity of clear urine.
 Passed urine, less than half the usual quantity, and yellowish. 6 p.m, pass a small quantity of yellowish saturated urine (2nd day).
 Urine. Deep-colored urine (4th day). Urine passed of a slight brownish tinge, scanty, and smelling strongly after a few minutes.
 Sexual Organs.
 Priapism in presence of the opposite sex (3rd day).
 Early in afternoon noticed a feeling of flabbiness in the genitalia, which felt small (2nd day). No feeling at sexual organ. Anaesthesia of the genital organs (5th day). Waked in the right, with slight sexual desire. The effect on the generative functions passed off in about 10 days.

 Clearing the larynx of mucus. Voice sounds dim (2nd day).
 On divesting oneself of outer garments, experience coughing.
 Breath fetid; noticed by others. Fetid breath noticed by self (subjective symptom). Sighing respiration (noticed many times).
 Respiration is measured; no interval between inspiration and expiration. Deep inspiration. Deep inspiration (after six hours and a half). Deep inspiration, as if tired, accompanied with no fatigue. At intervals, deep inspiration, as if the chest were laboring under the effect of some indefinable oppression. Deep inspiration and expiration; chest is emptied quickly (2nd day).
 Experienced the long, deep, uneasy respiration of previous days, but more intensified, before rising (2nd day).
 Chest.
 Thorax acts automatically, not in accordance with one’s whim (2nd day). Tendency to automatically expand the chest (this recurs as a symptom very frequently). The chest expands itself seemingly to its utmost capacity, in an instant collapsing, to be repeated.
 Weakness of chest, with deep inspiration. сhest feels empty (2nd day). Slight feeling of oppression. сhest feels pained or oppressed. Slightly painful sensation in the left chest in the region of the heart. Pain in chest, left side, and through the heart, flanked by a painful sensation at an toward the spleen, the latter momentary, the former continuing, especially that at the heart. Pain in left great pectoral muscle, more aggravated toward the tendon of the lesser pectoral and at coracoid process.
 Somewhat persistent pain in the cartilages of the left lower false ribs.
 Tenderness over ribs, left side anteriorly, just below the heart (after 6 hours and a half).  Appetite poor.
 Neck. Pain on left side of neck (after 3 hours). At night, pain in the neck of the left side above and along the clavicle. Pain in upper portion of spine and medulla oblongata, running upward and expanding through the brain to near its surface, especially on stooping or bending head forward, as in bowing or kneeling.

 Pain at heart. (2nd day). At night when retired, felt severe convulsive pains at the heart; severe agonized pain for several hours, which returned toward morning (2nd day).
 Sensation of a great stone laid upon the heart; soon after, sensation as if the chest was broken out just in front of the heart (2nd day).
  Feeling as if the heart was transfixed by a blunt instrument, as on a bolt . Slight pricking pain at the heart (2nd day). All along felt strong desire to antidote the very powerful effect of the drug on the heart and nervous system; could with difficulty at times restrain the desire to take medicine for that purpose.
 Pulse a little irregular just after dinner (6th day). A little before 6 p.m counted pulse for 1 minute; found several diacrotic beats and intermissions in that time (2nd day).

 Back. Pain running along the back down to the arms.
 Tenderness on pressure along the spines of all the cervical and the three or four upper dorsal vertebrae (after 5 hours and a half).
 Dorsal. Pain in the right scapula. Painful feeling in dorsal vertebrae. Dorsal region feels lame on stooping.
 Lumbar. Pain at a spot in the muscles of the back, midway between the left scapula and sacrum (2nd day). Sensation of uneasiness, extending to the back as far as the lumbar region, on taking frequent heavy respiration.
 Extremities in General.
 In the coracoid of the right shoulder, as well as in the hamstring tendons of the left thigh, there was pain; so also in the last phalanx of left index finger.
 Superior Extremities.
 Tired feeling in both arms. Pain in both arms, followed by pain in chest (after 4 hours and 1/3rd). Pain, with numbness of right arm, when writing (2nd day). Pain running across the inner side of left arm, felt in the bend of the elbow after subsiding elsewhere. Pain in outer border of elbow-joint, left arm, back of and at left shoulder-joint. Tenderness of the flexor muscles of both arms (upper), ( after 5 hours and a half).
 Shoulder. Pain in left shoulder, like that produced by carrying a heavy weight.
 Arm. Pain in both upper arms. Pain along inner side of right upper arm (2nd day). Pain along the outer side of right upper arm, while writing (2nd day). Pain in the muscles of the arm above the elbow anteriorly (after 4 hours and 1/3rd).
 Elbow. Dull pain in left elbow and forearm (2nd day).
 Forearm. Pain in left forearm (after 4 hours and 1/3rd). Soreness and lameness in right forearm above wrist; considerable in flexor muscles of right arm on contact. Pain in muscles of the back of the forearm (after 4 hours and 1/3rd). Pain in arm posteriorly, over ulna, above wrist (after 5 hours and a half). Pain in left ulna, with numbness (2nd day).
 Wrist. Pain in back of left wrist, running to forearm (after 4 hours and 1/3rd). Pain on ulnar side of the left carpometacarpal joint.
 Hand. Lameness in dorsum of left hand. Pain on dorsum of right hand (after 4 hour and a 1/3rd). Pain in first metacarpal bone of right hand (2nd day). Pain in metacarpophalangeal joints of right hand.
 Fingers. Pain in metacarpal bone of thumb and contiguous bone of right hand. Drawing sensation from end of thumb of right hand upward; seems as if sprained. Pain quite constant. Left to right drawing pain of right index finger affecting the bone. Pain in last joint of left index finger (after 4 hours and 1/3rd). Pain in right finger and right wrist (after 3 hours). Pain right ring finger (after 1 hour).
 Pain in left ring finger returning (after 4 hours and 1/3rd).
 Pain in right little finger. Pain, with lameness in left little finger (after 5 hours and a half).
 Inferior Extremities.
 Noticed for several days a dull heaviness in my steps.
 Compressed feeling from the sacrum down through the limbs, terminating at the heels (2nd day).
 Hip. Pain in right hip and head of right thigh-bone.
 Pain in right trochanter (after 4 hour and 1/3rd).
 Knee. Pain in both knees and in left little finger (after 4 hours and 1/3rd). Pain in both knees, on rising. Pain in right knee.
 Pain in knees and ankles, dorsa of feet (2nd day). Pain on inner side of the knee (after 4 hours and 1/3rd). Pain on inner side of left knee, low down (after 4 hours and 1/3rd). Pain in right patella; difficult to touch without considerable pain on pressure with the hand (after 3 hours).
 Ankle. Pain above right external malleolus (at night).

 While taking the medicine, I lost in weight 7 and one half pounds, which I did not regain for some weeks. Allowed the time to pass until noon unoccupied in anything of importance (2nd day).
 Ill at ease, restless. Do not know what to do myself.
 Subjective. Felt weary (2nd day). Feel fatigued on riding, especially in the lumbar region. Weak feeling and pressure at the heart, on reading or thinking consecutively (6th day). Faint feeling, followed by nausea, on rising (4th day). Feel very uncomfortable; do not know what to do with myself (after 6 hours and a half). Each night seemed to be under the influence of something powerful. Feel that I am sick (5th day). Feel like one recovering from a cold (3rd day). Went to bed feeling miserably.
 Feel the effect of an incubus weighing me down, affecting more particularly the nervous system (4th day). Pain through right shoulder-blade, through right hip, and again in right kidney (2nd day). When mental symptoms subside corporeal ones are aggravated and conversely. Feel worse from the pressure of clothing (after 3 hours). Feel better on disrobing for the night. Muscular pains were mainly gone in a few days, although echoes of the morbid symptoms were perceptible slightly after 4 or 5 weeks had elapsed. The symptoms affecting the heart and chest were mainly gone in 10 days after taking the medicine; some symptoms being noted longer, as sighing respiration.

 Skin.
 Eruptions. Pustules on body, more on the nates and gluteal region.
 Pustule on the lip near the left ala of the nose (2nd day).
 Subjective. Felt for two days, more on 2nd day, intolerable itching over the whole surface of the body. On the 3rd day it was perfectly unbearable. After annoying me very much, it gradually left me. Itching in various parts of the body (2nd day). Itching of the nose (2nd day). Lower extremities have a prickling feeling, when kneeled or flexed (4th day). Itching of right popliteal space (5th day). Itching quite severe, with roughness of the skin in the right popliteal space (at night). Itching of the skin of the right popliteal space returns many times after concluding the proving, and is very noticeable almost every day of the 9th week. Itching on sole of left foot (4th day). The itching of the sole of the left foot perfectly aggravating (much more severe that symptom on the 9th day) on the 8th week; in fact as troublesome and presenting as severe objective symptoms as any chilblain.

 Sleepiness. Yawning. Great fit of yawning (2nd day). 11 , drowsiness (after 11 hours). Drowsiness on closing the eyes.
 Slept soundly; did not hear anything of a heavy shower that came on in the night. Slept all night without undressing, as I had thrown myself down and fallen asleep.
 Sleeplessness. Late at night but not sleepy. 11 not sleepy; mind disturbed (after 6 hours and a half). During the night slept but little (2nd day).
 Dreams. Full of dreams of large assemblies of persons, and things relating to scenes forgotten for years. Slept pretty well; disturbed by dreams of a dog, and a fracas, very exciting to the nerves. Re-dreamed old dreams in part or whole.

 Conditions. Aggravation.
 (Night), Pain in heart; pain in neck; pain above malleolus; feeling as if under influence of something powerful.
 (On bending head to floor), Eyelid painful.
 (On descending steps), Pain in occiput.
 (From pressure of clothing), Feels worse.
 (On reading and thinking consecutively), Weak feeling etc., at heart.
 (On heavy respiration), Sensation extending to back.
 (On rising from kneeling), Dizziness, etc.
 (Stooping, or bending head forward), Pain in upper portion of spine, etc., (On undressing), сough When writing). Pain in arm.
 Amelioration.
 Amelioration, (On undressing for the night), Feels better.

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