N. O. Cactaceæ. Tincture of stems.

Clinical

Anger, fits of / Enuresis / Epistaxis / Heart, pains in / Impotence

Characteristics

The heart was less prominently affected by Cer. serp. than by the other Cacti; but pains in head and a paralysed feeling were experienced. A voluptuous feeling; dwindling of sexual 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. b. Kunze also proved Cer. s.

Relations

Compare: . Cact. g., Cereus bon., Coni.; Pso. (sensitiveness to cold). Anac. (inclined to swear).

1. Mind

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

2. Head

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.

5. Nose

Epistaxis.

8. Mouth

At dinner bites inside mouth, r. cheek.

9. Throat

Much tenacious mucus in throat and back of nose.

14. Urinary Organs

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

15. Male Sexual Organs

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

19. Heart

Paralysed feeling 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.

27. Fever

Very sensitive to cold.

Cereus Serpentinus across the other classic books

Cereus Serpentinus appears in 2 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.

“[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. Emotional. Light, lascivious feeling (second day)…”

Cereus Serpentinus in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Cereus Serpentinus in 7 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.

THROAT - MUCUS

EXTREMITIES - PAIN - aching - Hand - extending to - elbow

MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Testes - night

CHEST - PAIN - Heart - exertion

MALE GENITALIA - ATROPHY

EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper Limbs - writing,while

MALE GENITALIA - COLDNESS - Testes

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Cereus Serpentinus