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 useDewey
The Night Blooming Cereus . Fresh flowers and youngest stems are used. Give the grand characteristics of Cactus grandiflorus. Constriction about the heart as if grasped by an iron hand ; sharp pains in the heart ; hemoptysis, with cardiac affections. Sensation as of an iron hoop in various parts of the body. Pressive headache in vertex. Irritation of the cardiac nerves, intense palpitation and fluttering about the heart. Tobacco heart.
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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