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Cactus Grandiflorus

Cereus grandiflorus
CACT · 17 entries across 17 books
HabitatMexico and the West Indies. PreparationTincture of youngest and tenderest stems and flowers collected in summer. Clarke
3X, Ø
Tincture (best made from flowers), to third attenuation. Higher in nervous palpitationDose · Boericke

Reason for use

Cactus grand. is one of the most valuable of our remedies in rheumatic affections of the heart.

It matters not what the cause or condition may be — whether it be rheumatic endocarditis, pericarditis or valvular troubles — provided the indications for its use are present, particularly the characteristic " iron band " constriction and the great oppression for breath.

The full Roberts text, by section

Eyes

(Cactus)

ACUTE RHEUMATIC OPHTHALMIA.

Chest

(Cactus)

SHARP PAINS SHOOTING THROUGH DIAPHRAGM AND UP INTO CHEST ; JERKING RESPIRATION.

SENSATION AS IF CORD WERE TIED TIGHTLY ABOUT THE CHEST MARKING THE ATTACHMENT OF THE DIAPHRAGM.

RHEUMATISM OF MUSCLES OF CHEST.

SENSATION OF CONSTRICTION IN MIDDLE OF STERNUM AS IF COMPRESSED BY IRON PINCERS ; DIFFICULT BREATHING < BY MOTION.

SENSATION AS IF CHEST WERE COMPRESSED BY AN IRON CAGE NOT ALLOWING ANY EXPANSION.

Heart

(Cactus)

DULL HEAVY PAIN < BY PRESSURE, SUFFOCATIVE RESPIRATION.

GREAT PRESSURE AT HEART GOING AROUND UNDER LEFT AXILLA TO BACK " LIKE A BELT OF PAIN ", < midnight ; LIKE A HAND GRASPING THE HEART with soreness to touch.

PRICKING STICKING PAIN IN HEART IMPEDING BREATHING OR MOTION.

PAROXYSMS OF VIOLENT STITCHING PAIN IN HEART WITH ICY COLDNESS OF LIMBS.

CONSTANT PAIN IN CARDIAC REGION WITH SENSATION AS IF THE HEART WERE BOUND DOWN ; HAS NOT ROOM ENOUGH TO BEAT.

SENSATION AS IF THE HEART WERE HELD BY IRON HAND FOR HOURS.

RHEUMATIC INFLAMMATION OF HEART WITH SEVERE PAIN IN APEX SHOOTING DOWN LEFT ARM TO FINGERS.

PALPITATION OF HEART < LYING ON LEFT SIDE, WALKING and in night.

ENDOCARDIAL MURMURS.

VALVULAR MURMURS ; HARSH MURMUR IN PLACE OF SECOND SOUND PULSE FEEBLE, INTERMITTENT, almost gone.

NECK AND BACK . — (Cactus)

PAINS SHOOT THROUGH BODY TO BACK AND UP INTO CHEST WITH RUSH OF BLOOD TO CHEST.

Intolerable pain in lower part of muscles of right neck, extending to gluteal muscles.

LUMBAR MUSCLES TENDER ON PRESSURE AND STIFF ON FIRST MOVING.

PAIN UNDER LEFT SHOULDER BLADE.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Cactus)

Troublesome rheumatic condition of shoulder.

Pain in shoulders and arms of constricting character.

Tearing pains in joints, shifting from one joint to another.

SORE ACHING PAIN IN LEFT ARM DOWN TO ELBOW.

SEVERE PAIN IN LEFT ARM DOWN TO FINGER TIPS.

Numbness of left arm.

Sense of weight in arms.

Drawing tearing pain in right arm in morning on waking, afterward extends to wrist joint.

OEDEMA OF HANDS, LEFT HAND WORSE.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Cactus)

Numbness of legs.

(Rheumatic pains in left ankle.)

OEDEMA OF LIMBS ; SKIN SHINING ; DENTS REMAIN A LONG WHILE.

Weariness and heaviness of limbs.

Pain in calves and soles of feet.

(Clinching pain in sole of foot lasting only a short time, but annoying.)

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL . — (Cactus)

Rheumatic pain in all the limbs, at ease in no position, < at rest and on motion.

OEDEMA OF LIMBS.

CONCOMITANTS . — (Cactus)

SAD AND DESPONDENT.

SUSPICIOUS.

HEADACHE AS IF A GREAT WEIGHT LAY ON VERTEX.

URINE PROFUSE, red sandy sediment.

GREAT OPPRESSION FOR BREATH ; SENSATION AS IF THE CHEST WERE ENCASED IN AN IRON CAGE WITH NO POWER OF EXPANSION.

IN ALL TROUBLES HAS THE SENSATION OF CONSTRICTION.

Complete text of the Cactus Grandiflorus entry in Roberts - The Rheumatic Remedies; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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4 Hering

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14 T. F. Allen

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16 Guernsey

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17 Cowperthwaite

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18 Dewey

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20 Hempel

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21 Hale

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22 Roberts · shown above

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23 T. F. Allen

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33 Gladstone Clarke

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  4. A laboratory study of 20 drugs on normal human beings with comments on their symptomatology and therapeutic useHEPBURN JS, BOERICKE GW, RICKETTS R et al. · Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy · 1950

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