C. Bonplandii, Parmet (variety of Cereus grandiflorus).

Nat. order , Cactaceæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the stems.

Authority.

Dr. John H. Fitch, in monograph on Cactus, by Richard E. Kunze, M.D., of New York, took repeated doses of the tincture, from 3 to 30 drops at a dose, repeated from one to three times a day.

MIND

Emotional.
Desire to engage at work.
Desire to have the time all employed.
Felt all day an astonishing inclination to be engaged in something useful.
Felt a desire to give something quite necessary to myself to another.
Desire to be dissolved, especially the trunk (after three hours).
Reluctance to take medicine (second day).
Experienced an agreeably tranquil frame of mind and body.
A grateful feeling of dependence on a divine spirit was experienced (second day).
Not very pleasant in mind. [10.]
Very much disturbed in mind.
Arose feeling miserable (second day).
Praying, or disposition to pray.
Very irritable.
Very irritable; act from impulse (second day).
Apathetic during attendance at church; could not fix the mind on devotional exercises, effort being strong (second day).
Intellectual.
Difficult to keep employed.
Very dull all morning; pass the time in a listless manner.
Time passed very slowly (fifth day).

HEAD

Vertigo.
On rising up from a kneeling posture, dizziness comes over one, followed by sickness at stomach, continuing for some little time. [20.]
Swimming of the head.
General Head.
Felt a feeling as if the head were suspended from some support under the skull and base of the brain (after ten minutes).
Head felt drawn to the left backward.
Head feels badly (second day).
Headache (sixth day).
The effect on the brain and nervous system passes off in four or five days principally.
Forehead.
Painful sensation in the anterior lobes of the cerebrum, extending from the frontal bone backward (after six hours and a half).
Pain across anterior lobes of brain, just behind os frontis.
Slight heavy feeling in top of forehead.
Pain extending along the external angular process of frontal bone, right side. [30.]
Pain extending through the forehead, left side, to the occiput (after ten minutes).
Pain in right forehead.
Momentarily, a painful stunning sensation in the right side of the os frontis.
Sensation of a slight burning feeling, extending backward from the right forehead.
Sensation of pain of a boring nature, extending from the left frontal region deeper and backward (after ten minutes).
Sensation of a pressing feeling in right forehead (after ten minutes).
Parietals.
Pain verging around and along left parietal bone from left occiput.
Occiput.
Disagreeable feeling in the back of the head, seeming to pass down over the neck and terminate in a disagreeable sensation, an approach to qualmishness at the stomach.
Sensation as of a board bound to back of head, more plainly on the left side.
Headache, occipital pain. [40.]
Headache affecting occiput for quarter of an hour.
Severe occipital headache (third day).
Pain in occiput, running through to the lobes of the cerebrum.
Pain in occiput, high up in the head.
Felt a decidedly painful drawing sensation in occipital region, soon subsiding.
Feeling of being pressed at left occiput, and immediately afterwards a counter pain on left side of forehead, the latter continuing a moment or two.
Slight pressive sensation in the right occiput, from behind forward.

EYE

Heavy feeling at the eyes, as in cephalic catarrh (sixth day). [50.]
Rose suffering severe pain in eyes (fifth day).
Sore feeling at the eyes (sixth day).
Sore feeling in eyes, as if pained by strong sunlight.
Orbit.
Pain above right eye, passing down over globe of eye.
Pressive pain in orbits, from before backward.
Tenderness at supraorbital notch (after six hours and a half).
Lids.
Left eyelid slightly painful when the head is bent to the floor.
A little capillary congestion of the conjunctiva.
Lachrymal Apparatus.
Swimming eyes.
Ball.
Somewhat painful sensation in globe of left eye. [60.]
Pain through the globe of the right eye.*
Pain through the globe of the left eye and orbit (after six hours and a half).
Vision.
Great sensitiveness to the impulse of light all day (photophobia), (fifth day).
Strong light painful to eyes (sixth day).
Perception of a cluster of orange-colored spots, round-shaped and symmetrical.

EAR

Pain behind mastoid process, left side, extending backward and upward.
Pain through ear and head, commencing at a point at the back of left ear, and running upward and forward diagonally in the direction of the opposite ear and right parietal bone.

NOSE

Sneezing; fetid flatus passed from bowels.
Accumulation of mucus in both nostrils (third day).
Hardened mucus from left nostril. [70.]
Mucus from nose, as in catarrh.
Dislodge greenish discharges from the right nare; similar discharge in less quantity from the left.
Stinging in right nostril.
Haggard look (sixth day).
Yellowish hue of the countenance.
Awoke before 5 A.M.; looked somewhat haggard (second day).
Pain along right malar bone, running to temple, through the occiput.

MOUTH

Tongue.
Tongue too red to be natural.
Deep purplish hue over the whole tongue.
Tongue feathery. [80.]
Sensation of a thread of mucus of the tongue.
Tongue feeling rough.
General Mouth.
Mucus adherent to the roof of mouth, cleared by a single effort.
Clearing of the hard palate of mucus.
Watery sensation, not disagreeable in the mouth.
Sensation of saliva in the mouth, which is swallowed, of no particular taste.
Sensation of coldness and a metallic taste in the mouth.
Saliva.
Water in mouth.
Watery mouth, with some shade of insipidness.
Saliva in the mouth (after ten minutes, 6 drops).
Taste. [90.]
Taste watery.
Alkaline taste.
Taste of green vegetables.

THROAT

Mucus in throat.
Mucus in the throat, a persistent symptom early in the proving, and quantity abundant. Mucus of a pale greenish color, sometimes colorless or nearly so. It was from the throat, mainly, pharynx, and top of larynx.
Clearing of mucus from throat (sixth day).
Slight uneasiness in throat verging to stomach, with simultaneous congested sensation in both eyes.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Relish for sweet things.
Ate light breakfast (second day).
Thirst.
Thirstlessness.
Eructations. [100.]
Dry eructations from the stomach.
Slight painful feeling at epigastrium.
Slight sensation of pain in epigastrium at intervals, coming and going in short paroxysms.

ABDOMEN

Light rumbling in the left side of the abdomen.
Slight griping (soon after).
Felt a slight griping, accompanied by the beginning of a soreness, extending through the region of the whole portal circulation (after ten minutes).
Pain in left groin, sharp and cutting, as from impacted calculus in the ureter.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Slight desire to evacuate bowels (6 drops).

STOOL

Copious and urgent evacuation from the bowels. Felt very well afterwards (after six hours and three-quarters).
Stool not easy nor sufficient (second day). [110.]
Effort to evacuate bowels nearly or quite ineffectual.

URINARY ORGANS

Pain in left kidney (after four hours and one-third).
Pain long-continued in left kidney, as from renal calculus.
Quite severe sticking pain in right kidney (second day).
Slight pain of sticking character in region of right kidney.
Feel pain in right kidney; sore to pressure.
Sticking pain in right ureter (second day).
Slight desire to pass urine, lasting for a minute (immediately).
Micturition.
In the night, pass a small quantity of clear urine.
Passed urine, less than half the usual quantity, and yellowish. [120.]
6 A.M., pass a small quantity of yellowish saturated urine (second day).
Urine.
Deep-colored urine (fourth day).
Urine passed of a slight brownish tinge, scanty, and smelling strongly after a few minutes.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Priapism in presence of the opposite sex (third day).
Early in afternoon noticed a feeling of flabbiness in the genitalia, which felt small (second day).
Not feeling at sexual organ. Anæsthesia of the genital organs (fifth day).
Waked in the night, with slight sexual desire.
The effect on the generative functions passed off in about ten days.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Clearing the larynx of mucus.
Voice sounds dim (second day). [130.]
On divesting oneself of outer garments, experience coughing.
Breath fetid; noticed by others.
Fetid breath noticed by self (subjective symptom).
Sighing respiration (noticed many times).
Respiration is measured; no interval between inspiration and expiration.
Deep inspiration.
Deep inspiration (after six hours and a half).
Deep inspiration, as if tired, accompanied with no fatigue.
At intervals, deep inspiration, as if the chest were laboring under the effect of some indefinable oppression.
Deep inspiration and expiration; chest is emptied quickly (second day). [140.]
Experienced the long, deep, uneasy respiration of previous days, but more intensified, before rising (second day).

CHEST

Thorax acts automatically, not in accordance with one's whim (second day).
Tendency to automatically expand the chest (this recurs as a symptom very frequently).
The chest expands itself seemingly to its almost capacity, in an instant collapsing, to be repeated.
Weakness of chest, with deep inspiration.
Chest feels empty (second day).
Slight feeling of oppression.
Chest feels pained or oppressed.
Slightly painful sensation in the left chest in the region of the heart.
Pain in chest, left side, and through the heart , flanked by a painful sensation at and toward the spleen, the latter momentary, the former continuing, especially that at the heart.
Pain in left great pectoral muscle , more aggravated toward the tendon of the lesser pectoral and at coracoid process. [150.]
Somewhat persistent pain in the cartilages of the left lower false ribs.
Tenderness over ribs, left side anteriorly, just below the heart (after six hours and a half).

HEART AND PULSE

*Pain at heart (second day).
At night when retired, felt severe convulsive pains at the heart; severe agonized pain for several hours, which returns toward morning (second day).
Sensation of a great stone laid upon the heart; soon after, sensation as if the chest was broken out just in front of the heart (second day).
"Feeling as if the heart was transfixed by a blunt instrument, as on a bolt."
Slight pricking pain at the heart (second day).
All along felt strong desire to antidote the very powerful effect of the drug on the heart and nervous system; could with difficulty at times restrain the desire to take medicine for that purpose.
Pulse a little irregular just after dinner (sixth day).
A little before 6 A.M., counted pulse for one minute; found several dicrotic beats and intermissions in that time (second day).

NECK AND BACK

Neck. [160.]
Pain on left side of neck (after three hours).
At night, pain in the neck on the left side above and along the clavicle.
Pain in upper portion of spine and medulla oblongata, running upward and expanding through the brain to near its surface, especially on stooping or bending head forward, as in bowing or kneeling.
Back.
Pain running along the back down to the arms.
Tenderness on pressure along the spines of all the cervical and the three or four upper dorsal vertebræ (after five hours and a half).
Dorsal.
Pain in the right scapula.
Painful feeling in dorsal vertebræ.
Dorsal region feels lame on stooping.
Lumbar.
Pain at a spot in the muscles of the back, midway between the left scapula and sacrum (second day).
Sensation of uneasiness, extending to the back as far as the lumbar region, on taking frequent heavy respiration.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. [170.]

In the coracoid of the right shoulder, as well as in the hamstring tendons of the left thigh, there was pain; so also in the last phalanx of left index finger.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Tired feeling in both arms.
Pain in both arms, followed by pain in chest (after four hours and one-third).
Pain, with numbness of right arm, when writing (second day).
Pain running across the inner side of left arm, felt in the bend of the elbow after subsiding else where.
Pain in outer border of elbow-joint, left arm, back of and at left shoulder-joint.
Tenderness of the flexor muscles of both arm (upper), (after five hours and a half).
Shoulder.
Pain in left shoulder, like that produced by carrying a heavy weight.
Arm.
Pain in both upper arms.
Pain along inner side of right upper arm (second day). [180.]
Pain along the outer side of right upper arm, while writing (second day).
Pain in the muscles of the arm, above the elbow anteriorly (after four hours and one-third).
Elbow.
Dull pain in left elbow and forearm (second day).
Forearm.
Pain in left forearm (after four hours and one-third).
Soreness and lameness in right forearm above wrist; considerable in flexor muscles of right arm on contact.
Pain in muscles of the back of the forearm (after four hours and one-third).
Pain in arm posteriorly, over ulna, above wrist (after five hours and a half).
Pain in left ulna, with numbness (second day).
Wrist.
Pain in back of left wrist, running to forearm (after four hours and one-third).
Pain on ulnar side of the left carpo-metacarpal joint.
Hand. [190.]
Lameness in dorsum of left hand.
Pain on dorsum of right hand (after four hours and one-third).
Pain in first metacarpal bone of right hand (second day).
Pain in metacarpo-phalangeal joints of right hand.
Fingers.
Pain in metacarpal bone of thumb and contiguous bone of right hand.
Drawing sensation from end of thumb of right hand upward; seems as if sprained.
Pain quite constant.
Left to right drawing pain of right index finger affecting the bone.
Pain in last joint of left index finger (after four hours and one-third).
Pain in right ring finger and right wrist (after three hours). [200.]

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Noticed for several days a dull heaviness in my steps.
Compressed feeling from the sacrum down through the limbs, terminating at the heels (second day).
Hip.
Pain in right hip and head of right thigh-bone.
Pain in right trochanter (after four hours and one-third).
Knee.
Pain in both knees and in left little finger (after four hours and one third).
Pain in both knees, on rising. [210.]
Pain in right knee.
Pain in knees and ankles, dorsa of feet (second day).
Pain on inner side of left knee (after four hours and one-third).
Pain on inner side of left knee, low down (after four hours and one-third).
Pain in right patella; difficult to touch without considerable pain on pressure with the hand (after three hours).
Ankle.
Pain above right external malleolus (at night).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

While taking the medicine, I lost in weight seven and one-half pounds, which I did not regain for some weeks.
Allowed the time to pass until noon unoccupied in anything of importance (second day).
Ill at ease, restless.
Do not know what to do with myself.
Subjective. [220.]
Felt weary (second day).
Feel fatigued on riding, especially in the lumbar region.
Weak feeling and pressure at the heart, on reading or thinking consecutively (sixth day).
Faint feeling, followed by nausea, on rising (fourth day).
Feel very uncomfortable; do not know what to do with myself (after six hours and a half).
Each night seemed to be under the influence of something powerful.
Feel that I am sick (fifth day).
Feel like one recovering from a cold (third day).
Went to bed feeling miserably.
Feel the effect of an incubus weighing me down, affecting more particularly the nervous system (fourth day). [230.]
Pain through right shoulder-blade, through right hip, and again in right kidney (second day).
When mental symptoms subside corporeal ones are aggravated, and conversely.
Feel worse from the pressure of clothing (after three hours).
Feel better on disrobing for the night.
Muscular pains were mainly gone in a few days, although echoes of the morbid symptoms were perceptible slightly after four or five weeks had elapsed.
The symptoms affecting the heart and chest were mainly gone in ten days after taking the medicine; some symptoms being noted longer, as sighing respiration.

SKIN

Eruptions.
Pustules on body, more on the nates and gluteal region.
Pustule on the lip near the left ala of the nose (second day).
Subjective.
Felt for two days, more on second day, intolerable itching over the whole surface of the body. On the third day it was perfectly unbearable. After annoying me very much, it gradually left me.
Itching in various parts of the body (second day). [240.]
Itching of the nose (second day).
Lower extremities have a prickling feeling, when kneeled or flexed (fourth day).
Itching of right popliteal space (fifth day).
Itching quite severe, with roughness of the skin in the right popliteal space (at night).
Itching of the skin of the right popliteal space returns many times after concluding the proving, and is very noticeable almost every day of the ninth week.
Itching on sole of left foot (fourth day).
The itching of the sole of the left foot perfectly aggravating (much more severe than that symptom on the ninth day) on the eighth week; in fact as troublesome and presenting as severe objective symptoms as any chilblain.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Yawning.
Great fit of yawning (second day).
11 A.M., drowsiness (after eleven hours). [250.]
Drowsiness on closing the eyes.
Slept soundly; did not hear anything of a heavy shower that came on in the night.
Slept all night without undressing, as I had thrown myself down and fallen asleep.
Sleeplessness.
Late at night, but not sleepy.
11 P.M., not sleepy; mind disturbed (after six hours and a half).
During the night slept but little (second day).
Dreams.
Full of dreams of large assemblies of persons, and things relating to scenes forgotten for years.
Slept pretty well; disturbed by dreams of a dog, and a fracas, very exciting to the nerves.
Re-dreamed old dreams in part or whole.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Night ), Pain at heart; pain in neck; pain above malleolus; feeling as if under influence of something powerful.
( On bending head to floor ), Eyelid painful.
( On descending steps ), Pain in occiput.
( From pressure of clothing ), Feels worse.
( On reading and thinking consecutively ), Weak feeling, etc.; at heart.
( On heavy respiration ), Sensation extending to back.
( On rising from kneeling ), Dizziness, etc.
( Stooping, or bending head forward ), Pain in upper portion of spine, etc.
( On undressing ), Cough.
( When writing ), Pain in arm.
Amelioration.
( On undressing for the night ), Feels better.

Cereus Bonplandii