Cereas Bonplandii

A variety of Cactus grandiflorus. N, O. Cactaceae. Tincture of stems. H*f- — Eczema. Emaciation. Eyes, neuralgia of. Heart, affections of. Insanity. Kidneys, affections of. Neuralgia. of clothing, > undressing. Cer. ban, was proved by John H. Fitch in substantial doses (H. P., xii. 533). The prover lost 7i lbs. in weight He felt weighed down by an incubus. When mental symptoms subsided, bodily symptoms increased and vice vend. Could not bear contact of clothes; felt better on undressing. Among the marked symptoms were : Wants to be at work ; on something useful. Pains through globe of eyes and orbit. Pain through heart ; in left great pectoral muscle; left side of chest. Expanding sensation in chest followed by sudden collapse. The effect on the nervous system passed off in four or five days. The pains of Cer, b. have a tendency to spread to other parts. Most appear on left side. " Itching in right popliteal space " lasted eight or nine years after the proving. " Itching with roughness of the skin like eczema above left knee anteriorly." " Itching, with eruption like herpes below left scapula remained permanent." Fitch (who regards Cer. b, as an " antipsoric of remarkable power ") cured with it : (i) a case of eczema of both hands extending up to elbows. (2) Deposits in urine. (3) Dropsy of cardiac and renal origin. (4) Left intercostal neuralgia. (5) Anterior crural neuralgia. Also two cases of insanity — (6) one in a young woman, gloomy, restless, inclined to curse, swear, and throw things at persons, if resisted ; (7) the other in a married woman who had spiritual

Relations p. 450

that she had committed the unpardonable sin, &c. This came on originally after confinement Relations. — Compare: — Cact., Anhalon. (visions of colours), Graph, j Anac. (tendency to swear).

Mind p. 450

Desire to engage in work ; to have all time employed ; to be engaged in something useful. — Desire to be dissolved. Disposition to pray. — Apathetic ; difficult to keep attention fixed. — Irritable ; inclined to curse and swear. — Time seems to pass slowly. — Spiritual delusions; thinks she has committed the unpardonable sin.

Head p. 450

Feeling as if head suspended from some support under skull and base of brain. — Head felt drawn to l. backward. — Pain extending throughjforehead (1.) to occiput. — Painful stunning feeling in r. frontal bone. — Sensation as of a board bound to back of head, more 1. — Severe pain in occiput ; running through to brain ; < walking or descending steps. — Profuse falling off of hair.

Eyes p. 450

Heavy feeling in eyes ; soreness. — Pains through globe of r. eye ; of l. eye and orbit. — Strong light painful. — Perception of a cluster of orange-coloured spots, round and symmetrical.

Ears p. 450

Pain behind l. mastoid process extending upward and backward ; through ear and head.

Nose p. 450

Sneezing. — Discharges hardened mucus, greenish.

Face p. 450

Haggard look. — Pain along r. malar bone, running to temple, through to occiput.

Mouth p. 450

Tongue : red ; deep purple. — Watery sensation In mouth. — Sahvation.

Throat p. 450

Persistent mucus in throat, pale greenish or clear. organs ; mental irritations were prominent. < On exposure to cold, to which there is great sensitiveness. J. H. Fitch proved Cer. s., as well as Cer, h. Kunde also proved Cer. s. Relations* — Compare : — Cact. g., Cereus bon., Coni. ; Pso. (sensitiveness to cold), Anac. (inclined to swear).

Mind p. 452

Angry at trifles. — Fits of sudden ungovernable rage. — Inclined to swear.— Prays all night. — Makes mistakes, reading or writing.

Head p. 452

Dizzy in morning, with mucus in throat — Tensive pain in head and brain. — Feeling as if back part of brain were detached from front, and rotten.

Nose p. 452

Epistaxis.

Mouth p. 452

At dinner bites inside mouth, r. cheek.

Throat p. 452

Much tenacious mucus in throat and back of nose.

Urinary Organs p. 452

Pain in region of r. kidney. — Urging to urinate. —Enuresis. — Urine yellowish ; or pale tea-green.

Male Sexual Organs p. 452

Genital organs small and dwindled. — Excited genital condition. — Emission, seems as if pass6d in a lump. — Emission followed by cutting pain first in one, then in other testicle.

Heart p. 452

Paralysed f eeling in heart — Pain after exertion, followed by short breath, > by full breath. — Afterwards, short sharp pains through heart. — Thrusting pains at heart followed by sighing respiration.

Fever p. 452

Very sensitive to cold.