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Cactus Selenicereus
(Night-blooming Cereus)
General
Acts on circular muscular fibers, hence constrictions. It is the
heart and arteries especially that at once respond to the influence
of Cactus, 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.
HEMORRHAGE, CONSTRICTIONS, PERIODICITY, and SPASMODIC PAINS. Whole
body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter. Atheromatous
arteries and weak heart. Congestions; irregular distribution of
blood. FAVORS FORMATION OF CLOTS SPEEDILY. Great periodicity.
Toxic goitre with cardiac symptoms. Cactus is pulseless, panting
and prostrated.
Mind.
Melancholy, taciturn, sad, ill-humored. Fear of death. Screams
with pain. Anxiety.
Head.
Headache if obliged to pass dinner hour. (Ars.; Lach.; Lyc.) SENSATION
AS OF A WEIGHT ON VERTEX. Right-sided pulsating pain. CONGESTIVE
HEADACHES, periodical, threatening apoplexy. Blood-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.]
Nose.
Profuse bleeding from nose. Fluent coryza.
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.
Stomach.
CONSTRICTION, pulsation, or heaviness in stomach. Vomiting of
blood.
Stool.
Hard, black stools. Diarrhoea in morning. Hemorrhoids swollen
and painful. Sensation of great weight in anus. Hemorrhages from
bowels in malarial fevers and with heart symptoms.
Urine.
Constriction of neck of bladder, causing retention of urine. Hemorrhage
from bladder. Clots of blood in urethra. Constant urination.
Female.
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.
Oppressed breathing as from a weight on chest. CONSTRICTION IN
CHEST, AS IF BOUND, HINDERING RESPIRATION. Inflammation of diaphragm.
HEAR-CONSTRICTION, AS FROM AN IRON BAND. Angina pectoris. Palpitation;
pain shooting down left arm. Hemoptysis, with convulsive, spasmodic
cough. Diaphragmitis, with great difficulty of breathing.
Heart.
ENDOCARDITIS WITH MITRAL INSUFFICIENCY TOGETHER WITH VIOLENT AND
RAPID ACTION. Acts best in he incipiency of cardia incompetence.
Heart weakness of arteriosclerosis. 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. CONSTRICTION; very acute pains and stitches
in heart; pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength. Endocardial
murmurs, excessive impulse, increased precordial dullness, enlarged
ventricle. Low blood pressure.
Extremities.
Oedema 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. Coldness in back and icy-cold hands.
Intermittent; paroxysms about midday (11 a.m.) incomplete in their
stages, accompanied by Hemorrhages. Coldness predominates; cold
sweat, with great anguish. Persistent SUBNORMAL temperature.
Aggravation.
WORSE, about noon, lying on left side; walking, going upstairs,
11 a.m. and 11 p.m.
Amelioration.
BETTER, open air.
Relationship.
Antidotes: Acon.; Camph.; China.
Compare: Digital.; Spigel.; Convallar.; Kalmia; Naja; Magnol.
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