Origin 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 useLippe
[45] General weakness and prostration of strength. Sensation of constriction in the throat ; chest ; heart ; bladder ; rectum. Haemorrhages, nose ; lungs ; rectum ; stomach.
By regionLippe
Mind And Disposition Sadness and bad humor ; taciturnity, melancholy, hypochondriasis.
Head Vertigo, from sanguineous congestions to the head. Pulsating pain, with the sensation of weight in the right side of the head. …
Eyes [5] Dimness of sight ; cannot see at a distance ; objects appear to be obscured.
Stomach And Abdomen Nausea in the morning, lasting all day. Acrid acid in the stomach, which rises in the throat and mouth. Burning pulsation or heaviness in the stomach. …
Chest Feeling of constriction in the chest, as if bound ; hindering respiration. …
Extremities Formication and weight in the arms. Oedema of the hands ; worse in the left. …
Sleep Sleeplessness without cause ; or from arterial pulsations in the scrobiculus, and in the right ear. Delirium at night, on waking up.
Fever [50] Slight chilliness towards 10 A.M. Chilliness, with chattering of the teeth. Burning heat, with shortness of breath. …
Skin [55] Dry, scaly herpes on the outside of the elbow, and on the right internal malleolus.
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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