Opuntia vulgaris, Mill. (Cactus opuntia, L.).

Opuntia alba spina.

Natural order , Cactaceæ.

Preparation , Tincture of flowers, No. 1; of stems, No. 2.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Burdick, N. A. J. of Hom., N. S., 5, Aug. 1874, p. 48, effects of one or two deep inhalations of the tincture of flowers of O. vulgaris; 2 , Dr. R. E. Kunze, Trans. Eclectic Med. Soc. of N. Y., 1875, proving of J. H. Fitch, M.D., who took 10 drops of tincture of O. alba-spina at 6.30 P.M., 1 drachm at 11.45 P.M. first day, 1 drachm at 8 A.M. second day, same 6 P.M. third and fourth days; 3 , one symptom of O. vulgaris, from Murray, App. Med., 3, 343 (from A. H. Z., 19, 128).

MIND

Aberrations of mind, not entirely conscious of mental vagrancy (eighth day), 2.
The mind appears to be much affected, and does not appreciate any of its morbid condition; much tempted to do things one should not do (eighth day), 2.
Involuntary blasphemous mood (eighth day), 2.
In a few minutes, desire to be at prayer; go there, and in a minute or two desire to go out and "tidy" up; soon went out on an errand downstairs, then come up and go again to prayer (first day), 2.
Fit of swearing at evening after coming home; praying in the morning, swearing on disappointment in plans; fit of rage, at 6 P.M., on thwarting of plans (third day), 2.
In the afternoon, fit of petulance, angry at near relatives, swearing mood, not at all pleased, cannot get over the thought of injuries done by friends (eighth day), 2.
Petulance and desire to be at work; very irritable; cannot stand the least trifle (eighth day), 2.
Very vindictive at night (tenth day), 2.
Felt an intense desire to be busy; could scarcely give way to the wishes of the friends with whom I was associated (ninth day), 2. [10.]
Felt remarkable freedom in doing what I had to do; mind pretty clear (ninth day), 2.
Stopped in the midst of my work as if by an irresistible power (thirteenth day), 2.
Neglect business all day (sixth day), 2.
Lazy, diffident in transacting business (seventh day), 2.
Omits the first letter of a word in writing, transposes the first and second letters, writing the second first and the first second (second day), 2.
Omit the first letter of the last syllable of a compound word (eighth day), 2.
Transpose in writing the two final letters of a word unless writing very slowly (eighth day), 2.

HEAD AND EYE

Headache of rather a mild form, a tensive feeling in the brain (fifth day), 2.
Sensation as if the head were transfixed with a lance or spear (third day), 2.
Pain in the globe of the right eye early, continuing (ninth day), 2. [20.]
Towards evening pain through the globe of the eye (ninth day), 2.
Burning smarting in margin of eyelids, with feeling of contractions in line of eyelashes, 1.

NOSE, FACE, AND MOUTH

Left nostril bleeds on picking, a little blood and watery phlegm (eighth day), 2.
Slight bloody mucous discharge from the left nostril (eighth day), 2.
Pale face (fifth day), 2.
Bite the inside of cheek on chewing on right side (eighth day), 2.
The teeth appear sensitive (I may have taken cold), (eighth day), 2.
Tea tastes very insipid (it is not very strong); yesterday strong tea was very agreeable (eighth day), 2.
Saliva in the mouth (third and fourth days), 2.

THROAT AND STOMACH

Great raising of mucus (phlegm from the throat), at 4 P.M. (seventh day), 2. [30.]
Considerable mucus from the throat (eighth day), 2.
Throat feels sore in afternoon, choked or pinching feeling around the top of the larynx (third day), 2.
Horripilation on swallowing (first day), 2.
Appetite not first rate at breakfast, restricted at dinner (fifth day), 2.
Went without dinner (ninth day), 2.
Nausea, extending from the stomach down into the bowels, with sensation as if diarrhœa would set in, 1.*
Nausea, with dull heavy pain in stomach, with feeling as if cramps would set in, 1.
Alternate nausea of stomach and bowels, 1.

ABDOMEN, RECTUM AND STOOL

Bloatedness at the abdomen (eighth day), 2.
Pain through the spleen and heart (after one hour), 2. [40.]
Sensation as if the contents of the bowels in lower portion of abdomen were very acrid; worse in median line, 1.
Excoriating sick feeling in lower third of abdomen, with sensation as if the bowels had all settled down into lower part of abdomen, 1.
Urgent desire for stool; evacuation rather loose (after one hour), 2.
At evening stool, at first easy, afterwards hard (sixth day); urging to stool in the morning, soft, but difficult (seventh day), 2.
In straining at stool, varicose veins on left side enlarge very greatly (eighth day), 2.
Evacuation of bowels smell like strong drugs (eighth day), 2.
Bowels move oftener than natural (third day), 2.
Loose stool, at 4 P.M. (eighth day), 2.

URINARY, AND SEXUAL ORGANS

Not able to wait on urinating (ninth day), 2.
Urine increased in frequency, much more copious (eighth day), 2. [50.]
Urine increased in quantity, not in frequency, all day (eighth day), 2.
Urine free (third day), 2.
Bloody urine, 3.
Pain in the right testicle; priapism, with lascivious desire; drawing pain in right testicle (after second dose, first day), 2.
Atrophied appearance of the external genital organs (eighth day), 2.
Seminal emission (tenth day), 2.

RESPIRATION, CHEST, AND HEART

Heaving respiration, which does not give relief of chest oppression (third day), 2.
Single heaving respiration (second day), 2.
Respiration with slight heave of the chest, followed by less marked heaving respiration, gradually becoming quick and natural, still chest feels at ease (eighth day), 2.
Oppression of the chest relieved by a single heaving respiration; single violent chest heave to the respiration, producing an agreeable feeling at chest (after twenty minutes, second day), 2. [60.]
Cold strikes straight through the chest, upper portion (eighth day), 2.
Sticking pain through the heart (after one hour), 2.

NECK

Pain in muscles of neck, left side anteriorly, at 12.25 P.M.; later, pain in the muscles of the right side of the neck below ear, momentarily on the right side anteriorly of the neck; pain and ache on both sides of the neck below ears, coming on and passing off (fourth day), 2.

EXTREMITIES

Pain in the proximal ends of the first and second metacarpal bones of left hand (second day), 2.
Pain in left arm just below the elbow, palmar aspect (after one hour), 2.
After kneeling or resting on lower limbs they become numb, with tingling or pricking (eighth day), 2.
Arranged one of the drawers of my desk; after kneeling, lower limbs asleep, immovable (this is a two days' old symptom), (eighth day), 2.
Pain in muscles on the inner side of left leg (second day), 2.
Pain in head of left fibula (second day), 2.
Pain in right little toe (second day), 2.

GENERALS, SKIN, SLEEP, AND FEVER. [70.]

Feeling of prostration, 1.
Bad feeling, involving the nervous system (fifth day), 2.
Nervous at night (seventh day), 2.
Have had for a few days an eruption of pimples on the neck just back of the left ear, covering the mastoid process and bleeding easily (eighth day), 2.
At night dream of women (second day), 2.
Feeling of coldness, 1.
Very cold and chilly (the day is cold and weather changing), (eighth day), 2.
Cold feeling, with ache at the neck just below the ear, in the sterno-mastoid muscles, near their insertion (eighth day), 2.
Cold feet, feel chilly in a cold room (eighth day), 2.
Cold feet; coldness of the body (ninth day), 2. [80.]
Cold feet (eighth day), 2.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Praying mood; urging to stool.
( Afternoon ), Petulant mood; sore throat; 12.25, pain in muscles of left side of neck; pain in muscles of right side.
( Towards evening ), Pain through globe of eye.
( Evening ), Fit of swearing.
( Night ), Vindictive mood.
( Heaving respiration ), Oppression at chest.
( After kneeling on lower extremities ), Numbness.
( When writing ), Confusion of mind.

Opuntia