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 useCowperthwaite
Acts especially upon the circular fibers of the heart and arteries, causing irritability, hyperaesthesia, neuralgia, spasm, and palpitation of the heart. Through the pneumogastric nerve it acts upon the heart, lungs, and stomach, causing, in the latter, indigestion and excessive acidity, and in the lungs, constriction and asthma. Its distinguishing character is a constrictive sensation in various parts of the body, especially in the region of the heart, as if bound with an iron hoop. Characteristic symptoms.
By regionCowperthwaite
Mind (Cactus) Sadness, taciturnity, hypochondriasis ; irresistible inclination to weep. (Lyc., Natr., Nux m., Plat., Puls.)
Head (Cactus) Heavy pressing in the head as if a great weight lay on the vertex (Aloe) ; better from pressure ; worse from noise and light.(Bell.) Intense pulsating pain, with pain in right side of head.
Stomach (Cactus) Copious vomiting of blood. Acrid sour fluid, rising into the throat and mouth, making food taste acid. Burning ; pulsating in stomach. …
Fever (Cactus) Coldness in back, and icy-cold hands. Quotidian intermittent fever, which occurs every day at same hour (Cina), for many successive days. …
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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