CEREUS BONPLANDII
A Night-blooming Cereus
By William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
Mind
Great desire to work and to be doing something useful.
Head
Occipital headache and pain through the globe of the eyes and orbits ( Cedron; Onos ). Pain across the brain from left to right. Pain along right malar bone running to temple.
Chest
Convulsive pains at the heart; feels as if transfixed. Pain in chest through heart, with pain running toward spleen. Pain in left pectoral muscle and cartilages of left lower ribs. Sensation of a great weight on heart, and pricking pain. Hypertrophy of heart. Difficult, sighing respiration, as from some compression of chest.
Skin
Itching of skin ( Dolich; Sulph ).
Extremities
Pain in neck, back, shoulders, down arms, hands and fingers. Pain in knees and joints of lower extremities.
Relationship
Compare: Cactus; Spigel; Kalmia; Cereus serpentinus (Very irritable with tendency to swear; wild anger and low morals. Disturbance in speech; in writing leaves off the last syllable. Paralyzed feeling. Pains in heart, and dwindling of sexual organs. Emissions, followed by pain in testicles).
Dose
Third to sixth attenuation.