[See also Dr. Burt's proving under Cactus.]

Cereus serpentinus, Haw.

Nat. order , Cactaceæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the stems.

Authority.

Dr. John H. Fitch, proving with 15 drops (first day) and 1/2 dr. of tincture (third day), Kunze's Monograph on Cactus, p. 31.

MIND

Emotional.
Light, lascivious feeling (second day).
Prone to lascivious thoughts (tenth day).
Pray nearly all night (third day).
At night, remained at a late hour at prayer; intended to remain all night at prayer, but fell asleep.
Very irritable, inclined to profanity (sixteenth day).
Very irritable, nervous, swear a little (third day).
Angry at trifles.
Fit of sudden ungovernable rage (eighth day).
Great apathy for several days (tenth day). [10.]
Insipidity of life; everything mechanical, no enjoyment (eighth day).
Intellectual.
Feel mixed up, rage, swearing mood (nineteenth day).
Unfitness for study; after reading a short time, get impression to desist (ninth day).
Mistakes made in conversation; use the word fat for hat.
Omit the final part of a word in writing (ninth day).

HEAD

Felt dizzy in morning, raising, with a scraping effort, mucus from the throat (second day).
Tensive pain in head and brain.
Feeling as if the back part of the brain were detached from the anterior portion and rotten (eighth day).

EYE

Pain; slight drawing in right orbit (eighth day).
Itching of the inner canthus of the right eye, internal surface of the lid bordering the tarsal cartilage.

EAR. [20.]

Singing in right ear (ninth day).

NOSE

Epistaxis (sixteenth day).

FACE

In morning, awoke with a yellowish hue of countenance; slightly chilly (no fire in room), (second day).

MOUTH

Tongue has been dry for two or three days (fifth day).
At dinner, bite the inside of the mouth, right cheek (second day).

THROAT

Mucus in throat (sixteenth day).
Mucus in throat and nose adhering (seventh day).
In afternoon, much mucus in throat, also in evening (tenth day).
Much loose mucus in throat (pharynx), (seventh day).
Much tenacious mucus in throat, detached with difficulty (fourth day). [30.]
Much raising of mucus from the throat, and discharged from the throat (seventeenth day).
Much expectoration of congealed mucus from the throat and nasal passages, through the course of the morning.
At times, considerable expectoration of mucus from throat, and dislodgment of mucus from nostrils.
Clearing of the throat of mucus very often (seventeenth day).
Throat cleared of mucus a great deal of the time this morning (twentieth day).

ABDOMEN

Gas passed from bowels (fourth day).
A good deal of gas passed by the bowels at times, and symptoms recurring again (fifth day).
Very strongly smelling flatus from the bowels (eighth day).

STOOL

8.40 A.M., loose stool (second day).
9.30 P.M., had a stool like a large lump; difficult; felt better afterward (eighth day).

URINARY ORGANS. [40.]

10 P.M., pain in the region of the right kidney (eighth day).
Urgency to urinate (third day).
Enuresis (sixteenth day).
Urine increased; urinate every four hours (third day).
Urine pale tea-green (ninth day).
Urine yellowish, with a tinge of green (ninth day).
Urine the past three days deep-colored (fifth day).
At noon, in passing urine, it precipitated a cloudy sediment (fifth day).

SEXUAL ORGANS

Genital organs seem small (third and fourth days).
Genital organs small and dwindled. [50.]
Excited condition of genital organs; hyperæmia and hyperasthenia increased by walking (ninth day).
Sensation as if a seminal emission were in danger of taking place, with absence of any lascivious thought or fancy (eighth day).
Pain in right testicle, with coldness (fourteenth day).
Towards 10 A.M., a seminal emission, which seems as if it passed "like a lump;" feeling as if a lump had passed one (ninth day).
Remain up very late, retire, and have an emission of semen, followed by an incisive and very great urgent pain, first in one and then in the other testicle; passed the time in the evening in prayer, with partial relief (eighth day).

CHEST

Thorax increased by drawing deep inspiration (third day).
A considerable drawing sensation or pain was felt over left collar-bone (immediately); after a little while it returns, accompanied with pressure and weight over that quarter of the chest.
Pain in chest, right side, just below the axilla and shoulder (after three hours).
Drawing pain in right pectoral muscles, in the direction and at tendon of pectoralis minor and at coracoid process (eighth day).

HEART AND PULSE

Feel the effect of muscular exertion of the heart (eighth day). [60.]
Paralyzed feeling in heart (9.50 P.M.), (ninth day).
Feel pain at heart after retiring (seventh day).
Pain at heart after exertion, followed by shortness of breath, relieved after taking a full inspiration (nineteenth day).
Momentary pain at heart (second day).
Afternoon, short sharp pain through the heart (second day).
Thrusting pain at heart, followed by sighing respiration (second day).

NECK AND BACK

Pain in neck, with perspiration on slight exertion (fifth day).
Pain felt, especially on posterior cervical muscles (fifth day).
Tenderness of the cervical muscles (third day).
Lameness of right shoulder-blade, lower portion, dorsum, running to side (third day). [70.]
Pain in back, region of kidneys (third day).

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Pain in right arm (sixth day).
Severe pain in right arm, in writing (seventh day).
Pain along course of nerves on inner side of right arm (eighth day).
Shoulder.
Pain with coldness toward the shoulder, in a cold room (ninth day).
Lameness (very bad) of the right shoulder, constant for most of the day; feel as if a heavy load had been carried on it, which had produced a bruised chest (third day).
Pain in right shoulder (eighth day).
Feeling as if the shoulders were sprained by exertion of the muscles (eighth day).
Pinch in left deltoid muscle.
Elbow.
Heaviness of the left arm at the elbow, a kind of tired feeling. [80.]
Pain (sharp) in right elbow (fifth day).
At evening, pain in right elbow, gnawing pain (fifth day).
Wrist.
Pain in right wrist (fifth day).
Hand.
Pain in fifth metacarpal bone of right hand, with aching toward wrist, extended to elbow (ninth day).
Fingers.
Pain in left little finger (second day).

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Pain in right lower extremity, near knee (eighth day).
After kneeling, numbness of right extremities, from the knee down (tenth day).
Pain in the dorsum and inner side of right foot, drawing in character; feels as if a horse had stepped on it (eighth day).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Voluptuous feeling (ninth day).
Faint feeling, with all the time much saliva in the mouth; (this has occurred before during seasons of great despondency, to which I have been subject), (fifth day). [90.]
Feel badly, with dwindling of genital organs (sixteenth day).
Feel like one recovering from a cold (cephalic catarrh), (second day).
Painful feeling in bones, as if a snowstorm were coming (am very sensitive to such influences during the winter months), (third day).
Its more potent action is in affecting the nerves and muscular organs on the right side of the body.

SKIN

Pustule on forehead, left side (second day).
Pustule on right upper lip, angle of the mouth, on parts covered by beard (fifth day).
Very sore spot in beard just below left angle of mouth (fifth day).
Burning-itching of the ala nasi.
Itching of the surface of the chin covered by the beard, also the upper lip in beard.
Itching very severe on sole and sides of right foot, mostly toward the heel (eighth day).

FEVER. [100.]

Sensitiveness to cold (third day).
Feel chilly easily (second day).
Very sensitive to cold in chest (sixteenth day).
Cold feeling at side of neck, below ears (second day).
Perspire easily (fourth day).

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), When hawking mucus, felt dizzy; on waking, face yellow, etc.
( After exertion ), Pain at heart.
( On writing ), Pain in arm.
Amelioration.
( Full inspiration ), Pain at heart.
( Prayer ), Pain in testicle.

Cereus Serpentinus