Homeopathy LibraryOrigin Plant · Cactaceae · Simple
Habitat Mexico and the West Indies
ClarkePreparation Tincture of youngest and tenderest stems and flowers collected in summer.
Sources 17 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
3X, Ø
Tincture (best made from flowers), to third attenuation. Higher in nervous palpitation
Reason for useT. F. Allen
Preparation , Tincture of the flowers and young twigs. Authorities. 1 , Rubini (translated by Dr. Ad. Lippe); 2 , Hencke, A. H. Z., 86, 173, proving with the 1st dil.; 3 , ibid., proving with the 3d.; 4 , ibid., proving with the 6th; 5 , ibid., proving with the tincture; 6 , Lembke, N. Z. f. H. Kl. 12, 2, proving with the tincture; 7 , Dr. John H. Fitch, The Medical Eclectic, 1, 190, proving with 7 to 20 drops of tincture; 8 , ibid., proving with one dose of 195 drops of tincture; 9 , Dr. Burt, West. Hom. Obs., 3, 239, proved 100 to 600 drops of the 3d dec. dil., under the name of "Cactus serpentarius."
By regionT. F. Allen
Mind Slight delirium at night; on waking up, it ceases for a time, but begins again as soon as he goes to sleep (seventh day), [1] . …
Head Vertigo, from sanguineous congestions to the head (after ten days), [1] . …
Eyes Weakness of sight recurring periodically; objects appear to be obscured, [1] . …
Stomach Appetite good, better than usual, [8] . …
Female Pain in the uterus and its ligaments, periodically returning every evening, and increasing gradually until 11 P.M., when it is much worse; it then ceases until the following evening for many successive days (after fourteen days), [1] . …
Chest *Sanguineous congestion in the chest , which prevents him from lying down in bed (third day), [1] . …
Books*
Antidoted by Aconitum Napellus 3, Camphora 3, Cinchona Officinalis 3 +4
Complementary —
Follows well Aconitum Napellus, Arnica Montana, Arsenicum Album +8
Compare Digitalis Purpurea, Kalmia Latifolia, Aconitum Napellus +53
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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