Cactus grandiflorus

Mind and Disposition

Sadness and bad humor; taciturnity, melancholy, hypochondriasis.

Head

Vertigo, from sanguineous congestions to the head.

Pulsating pain, with the sensation of weight in the right side of the head.

Heavy pain, like a weight on the vertex; worse from sounds even talking.

Eyes

Dimness of sight; cannot see at a distance; objects appear to be obscured.

Ears

Hearing diminished by the buzzing in the ears.

Pulsations in the ears (otitis).

Nose

Profuse bleeding of the nose.

Face

Face bloated and red, with pulsation in the head.

Throat

Constriction of the œsophagus, which prevents swallowing; which excites the frequent swallowing of saliva.

Stomach and Abdomen

Nausea in the morning, lasting all day.

Acrid acid in the stomach, which rises in the throat and mouth.

Burning pulsation or heaviness in the stomach.

Constriction or pulsation in the scrobiculus.

Pulsation in the cœliac artery (after dinner).

Copious vomiting of blood.

Stool and Anus

Constipation; stool hard and black.

Diarrhœa, watery, mucous, bilious (in the forenoon).

Sensation of great weight in the anus.

Swollen, painful varices at the anus.

Copious hæmorrhage from the anus.

Itching in the anus.

Urinary Organs

Constriction of the neck of the bladder.

Irritation in the urethra, as if he would pass water constantly.

Urine passes by drops, with much burning.

Profuse urine, of a straw color.

Urine, on cooling, deposits a red sand.

Hæmaturia.

Sexual Organs

Women. Pulsating pain in the uterus and ovaries.

Sensation of constriction in the uterine region.

Very painful menstruation.

Labor suppressed.

Chest

Feeling of constriction in the chest, as if bound; hindering respiration.

Sensation of constriction in the heart, as if an iron band prevented its normal movement.

Acute pains and stitches in the heart.

Difficulty of breathing; attacks of suffocation, with fainting, cold perspiration on the face, and loss of pulse.

Palpitation of the heart; worse when walking, and at night when lying on the left side.

Chronic bronchitis, with rattling of mucus.

Hæmoptysis, with convulsive cough.

Spasmodic cough and copious mucous expectoration.

Pricking pains in the chest, with oppressed respiration, intense cough, sanguinolent sputa. (Pneumonia).

Extremities

Formication and weight in the arms.

Œdema of the hands; worse in the left.

Œdema of the feet, extending to the knee; the skin is shining; pressure with the fingers leaves an indentation.

Generalities

General weakness and prostration of strength.

Sensation of constriction in the throat; chest; heart; bladder; rectum.

Hæmorrhages, nose; lungs; rectum; stomach.

Sleep

Sleeplessness without cause; or from arterial pulsations in the scrobiculus, and in the right ear.

Delirium at night, on waking up.

Fever

Slight chilliness towards 10 A.M.

Chilliness, with chattering of the teeth.

Burning heat, with shortness of breath.

Scorching heat at night, with headache, following a chill and terminating in perspiration.

Intermittent fever (quotidian) recurring every day at the same hour.

One o'clock in the afternoon slight chill, then burning heat, with dyspnœa, pulsating pain in the uterine region, terminating in slight perspiration: -(quotidian) 11 A.M., great coldness for two hours; then burning heat, with great dyspnœa, violent pain in the head, coma, stupefaction, insensibility till midnight, then unquenchable thirst and perspiration.

Skin

Dry, scaly herpes on the outside of the elbow, and on the right internal malleolus.

Conditions

The intermittent fever attacks recur at the same hour.

Aggravation in the forenoon (diarrhœa).

At night (palpitation of the heart; headache).

When lying on the left side (palpitation of the heart).

After eating (weight in the stomach).

From noise and light (headache).