CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS uses [Cact uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Constrictions,
as of an iron band
Haemorrhage, constrictions, periodicity and spasmodic pains
Favours formation of clots speedily
Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency, together with violent and rapid
action
SYNONYM
Selenicereus
COMMON NAME
Night-blooming Cereus
FAMILY
Cactaceae
SOURCE
Tincture of youngest and tenderest stem
A/F
| - | Sun |
| - | Damp |
| - | Love, disappointment in |
| - | Rheumatism |
MODALITIES
| < | Lying on left side |
| < | Lying on back |
| < | Occiput |
| < | Periodically |
| < | Exertion |
| < | 10-11 a.m. or 11 p.m. |
| < | Night |
| < | Walking |
| < | Going upstairs |
| < | Noise |
| < | Light |
| < | Heat of sun |
| < | Slight contact |
| < | About noon |
| < | Night (menses ceases at night) |
| < | After eating, fasting |
| > | Open air |
| > | Pressure on vertex |
| > | Sitting |
| > | Rest |
MIND
| - | Fear
of death, believes the disease is incurable |
| - | Sadness, apprehension, taciturn and tendency to be easily frightened |
| - | Irresitable desire to cry |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Constriction,
contraction and congestion of any organ in the body, especially heart,
uterus, chest, throat, bladder, rectum, etc |
| - | Constricting pains run through whole pathogenesis of Cactus because it acts
on circular muscles |
| - | Severe, violent, constricting pains, so severe that the patient cries out |
| - | Pains everywhere, darting and springing up like a chain of lightning, and
pressing with a sharp vice-like grip, only to be renewed again |
| - | The whole body feels as if caged and each wire is being twisted tighter and
tighter |
| - | Circulation becomes irregular, causing violent congestion or localised
pulsation behind stomach at odd places |
| - | It is a haemorrhagic remedy. Favours formation of clots speedily |
| - | Periodicity is marked and neuralgic pains occur periodically |
| - | Head - Headache pressing like heavy weight on vertex during climacteric
period |
| - | Congestive headaches, periodical threatening, apoplexy |
| - | Right sided prosopalgia, constricting pains, return at same hour daily |
| - | Heat in head from mental exertion |
| - | Vertigo - From deep breathing |
| - | C.V.S. - Heart feels clutched and released alternately by an iron band and
there is no room to beat |
| - | Oppression of chest as from a great weight as if an iron band, preventing
normal breathing and motion |
| - | Fluttering palpitation day and night < walking < lying on left side
< approach of menses |
| - | Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency, together with violent and rapid
action |
| - | Endocardial murmurs, excessive impulse, increased precordial dullness,
enlarged ventricle, low B.P. |
| - | Numbness, or pains entending into the left arm, hand or even fingers with
heart disease |
| - | Cardiac Rheumatism |
| - | If he holds the breath, it seems as if heart would fly to pieces, it would
go so fast |
| - | Periodical attacks of suffocation with fainting, cold sweat on face and loss
of pulse |
| - | Feels as if cord is tightly tied around the lower part of the chest marking
the attachment of diaphragm with heart |
| - | Female genitalia - Menstrual flow ceases when lying down. (Bov, Caust, Lil-t) |
| - | Menses - blood is lumpy, black, pitch-like (Cocc, Mag-c) |
| - | Severe dysmenorrhoea with heart symptoms |
| - | Fever - Paroxysm returns at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. |
KEYNOTES
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Primarily a cardiac remedy, characterized by horribly, painful or constricting condition, with congestion and disturbance of blood flow |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
| - | Sensation of being caged and each wire twisted tighter and tighter |
CLINICAL
| - | In any
haemorrhage, seeming to be in relation with heart trouble, think of
Cactus - Dr. Nash |
| - | Cardiac troubles with oedema of left hand - Dr.Leon Ranniar |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Follows Well: Acon, Arn, Ars, Bell,
Bry, Cham, Dig, Eup-per, Gels, Ip, Kali-br, Lach, Nux-v, Rhus-t, Sulph
Compare: Acon, Aloe, Alum, Aml-n, Am-m, Arn, Bell, Bov, Bry, Cadm-s,
Cahin, Calc, Carb-v, Caust, Cimic, Cor-r, Croc, Crot-h, Dig, Eup-per, Glon,
Hep, Iod, Kali- n, Kali-c, Kali-chl, Kalm, Lach, Lil-t, Murx, Naja, Nat-m,
Nux-v, Op, Phos, Puls, Ran-b, Rhus-t, Spig, Stram, Sulph, Zinc
Similar: Acon, Aloe, Alum, Aml-n, Am-m, Ant-t, Arn, Ars, Bell, Bov,
Bry, Cactin, Cadm-s, Calc, Carb-v, Caust, Cimic, Cor-r, Crot-h, Dig, Eup-per,
Glon, Iod, Ip, Just, Kali-c, Kali-chl, Kali-n, Kalm, Lach, Lil-t, Murx, Naja,
Nat-m, Nux-v, Op, Puls, Rhus-t, Sil, Spig, Stram, Sulph, Tab, Tarent, Zinc
Antidoted By: Acon, Camph, Chin
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