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 useGuernsey
A marked sense of constriction or contraction about the heart, or in the chest, as if a hand, a vice, or something had clutched the part and was holding on very tightly. The same sensations are found about the neck of the bladder, and about the oesophagus. Organic diseases of the heart.
By regionGuernsey
Head Heavy pain, like weight on vertex. Right sided headaches; periodic; pulsating and throbbing.
Fever Chilliness not relieved by covering; 11 A.M. and 11 P.M.
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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