Cactus Grandiflorus

▲   GENERAL

General

Cactus Grandiflorus acts on circular muscular fibers, hence constrictions. It is the heart and arteries especially that at once respond to the influence of Cactus Grandiflorus, producing very characteristic Constrictions as of an Ferrum Met ^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.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, about noon, lying on left side; walking, going upstairs, 11 a.m. and 11 p.m.

Better

BETTER, open air.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Digitalis Purpurea ^Digital.; Spigel.; Convallaria Majalis ^Convallar.; Kalmia Latifolia ^Kalmia; Naja Tripudia ^Naja; Magnolia Grandiflora ^Magnol.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Aconite ^Acon.; Camphora ^Camph.; China ^China.

▲   MIND

Mind

Melancholy, taciturn, sad, ill-humored

Fear of death

Screams with pain

Anxiety.

Behaviour; shrieking; with the pain

Insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety

▲   HEAD

Head

Blood-vessels to the head distended

Feels as if head were compressed in a vise

Pulsation in ears

Dim sight

Congestion (see pulsation)

fullness

from mental exertion

from mental exertion

while perspiring; where perspiration fails in shivering fit

Hot

from mental exertion

Headache

Headache if obliged to pass dinner hour ( Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Lachesis ^Lach.; Lycopodium ^Lyc.) Sensation as of a weight on vertex

Right-sided pulsating pain

Congestive headaches, periodical, threatening apoplexy

Right-sided prosopalgia, constricting pains, returns at same hour daily ( Cedron ^Cedron.)

Heaviness (see pain; pressing); pressure

Pain, headache

evening; 11 p.m.

with high or low temperature; headache during the chill

violent pains

top of head (vertex)

pressing (see bursting, pulling); top of head (vertex)

pressure

▲   EYES

Eyes

Bruise

▲   EARS

Ear

Noises in ear

ringing

▲   FACE

Face

Expression

distressed

suffering

Perspiration; cold

▲   NOSE

Nose

Profuse bleeding from nose

Nose bleed

Discharge

Fluent coryza.

▲   THROAT

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.

Choking, constricting

gullet

▲   CHEST

Chest

Inflammation of diaphragm

Hear-constriction, as from an Ferrum Met ^Iron BAND

Angina pectoris

Palpitation; pain shooting down left arm

Hemoptysis, with convulsive, spasmodic cough

Heart; Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with violent and rapid action

Cactus Grandiflorus 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.

Catarrh

Congestion

lying down impossible

Constriction, tension

as if from armour

as from a band around chest

lower part

breast bone

on movement

heart

grasping sensation

Heart

aneurysm

of the heart

angina pectoris

dilatation of heart

fatty degeneration of heart

hypertrophy of heart

palpitations

from exertion

while lying down; side; left

Lungs; haemorrhage (see expectoration)

Murmurs

Oppressed feeling

heart

Pain

heart

pressing; heart

Respiration

Oppressed breathing as from a weight on chest

Constriction in chest, as if bound, hindering respiration

Diaphragmitis, with great difficulty of breathing.

Deep; desire to breathe deeply

Difficult (dyspnea)

while lying

lying with the head low

while lying; on the back

while lying; lying with shoulders elevated

lying down; on the back

lying down; lying with shoulders elevated

periodic attacks

Impeded, obstructed; constriction of chest

Rattling

night and day

lying down

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Copious

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Coldness

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Constriction, pulsation, or heaviness in stomach

Constriction; behind lower ribs

Vomiting

Vomiting of blood.

Stomach; vomiting; blood

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Haemorrhage from anus

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.

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Constriction of neck of bladder, causing retention of urine

Hemorrhage from bladder

Clots of blood in urethra

Constant urination.

Bloody

Female

Female

constriction; vagina

constriction; vagina; from touch

pain; vagina; prolonged contraction or spasm of vagina (vaginismus)

preventing sexual intercourse

pain; constricting, contracting; vagina

Womb

Constriction in uterine region and ovaries

Dysmenorrhoea; pulsating pain in uterus and ovaries

Genitals

Vaginismus

C.); cease on lying down, with heart symptoms.

Menses

Menses early, dark, pitch-like ( Cocculus Indicus ^Cocc.; arct">Mag)

Female

contractions; womb; during period

period; painful; and difficult (dysmenorrhea)

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain); during period

pain; constricting, contracting; womb; during period

pain; cramping; womb; during period

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Oedema of hands and feet

Hands soft; feet enlarged

Numbness of left arm

Icy-cold hands

Restless legs.

Numbness (see tingling); upper limbs; left

upper limbs; left; in heart disease

Pain; upper limbs; left; with heart symptoms

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

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.

Late morning

Periodic, recurring

recurring daily

regular and distinct intervals

At certain time of day or night

from 11 a.m.

from 11 a.m.; and 11 p.m.

from 11 p.m.

Burning heat; night

No perspiration

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body

Frightful dreams.

Sleeplessness, insomnia

Generalities

Blood vessels

congestion of blood

congestion of blood; internally

As if caged in wire, twisted tighter and tighter

Constriction

internally

of orifices

sensation of a band

Twitching

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