Cactus
Jahr, Characteristic Symptoms of the Most Important Homoeopathic Remedies (Jahr's Clinical Guide), 1891, p. 523
Characteristic symptoms
General _ weakness, profound depression, protracted sleeplessness; interrupted sleep, so that he awakes unrefreshed in the morning ; sadness, taciturnity and irresistible inclination to weep ; melancholy and affections of the emotive sphere; vertigo from rush of blood to head; pale face and emaciation or bloated and red face with pulsating pain in head ; insufferable pain on the right side of the head, increased by noise or strong light; weight on vertex; strong pulsations in the temples, as if the skull would burst ; weakness of sight, recurring periodically ; complete loss of appetite ; all food causes weight in the stomach; copious vomiting of blood ; acrid eructations with violent burning in the stomach ; constriction of the hypochondria, impeding respiration ; great thirst, which causes him to drink much water ; very troublesome pulsations of the cceliac artery / violent pains in the bowels, almost causing him to faint ; bilious diarrhœa, always preceded by pain ; great weight in the anus and a strong desire to evacuate a great quantity, but nothing passes ; copious hemorrhage from the anus; morning diarrhœa; hematuria, strangury and paralysis of the bladder; pulsating pains in uterus and ovarian region ; dysmenorrhea ; constriction in the uterine region ; copious menstruation of black pitchy blood. Constriction of the chest, preventing free speech with hoarseness and low voice ; prolonged oppression of the chest, with difficult breathing and uneasiness / periodical attacks of suffocation with fainting, cold perspiration on the face and loss of pulse; sensation of constriction of the heart ; as if an iron band prevented its normal movement ; pricking pain and stitches in the heart with difficult breathing ; palpitation, worse when walking or when lying on the left side; metastasis of rheumatism to the heart ; Angina pectoris ; oedema of the hands, especially the left ; oedema of the feet and legs; dry, scaly, herpetic eruptions; violent itching.