Cactus Grandiflorus cact.

HEART (muscle). CIRCULATION. Head; right. Chest. Circular muscles.

Lying: On left side. On occiput. Periodically. Exertion. 10-11 A.M. or 11 P.M. Night.

Open air. Pressure on vertex.

CONSTRICTIONS; heart; chest; neck; body feels tight or wrapped, (Bar-c. Grap. Med. Nux-v. Sul.). Irregular circulation. Violent congestion. Hot gushings into chest. Localised pulsations; behind stomach. HÆMORRHAGE. Pains that extort cries. Periodical neuralgias.

As of a weight on vertex or chest. Red face. Cough; from heart affections; rattling. Menses lumpy; black; cease on lying. HEART FEELS CLUTCHED AND RELEASES ALTERNATELY, BY AN IRON HAND; or feels it expand and contract; seems to turn over (Lach.); stitches; irritable; intermittent beat. As if an iron band about chest. Numb left arm. Fingers tingle. Chill, not > covering. Strong pulsations in odd places.

Related: Aco. Coc-c.

Sanguineous congestions in persons of plethoric habit (Acon.); often resulting in haemorrhage; sanguineous apoplexy. Fear of death; believes disease incurable (Ars.). Haemorrhage: from nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, bladder (Crot., Mill., Phos.). Headache, pressing like a heavy weight on vertex ( > by pressure, Meny.); climacteric (Glon., Lach.). Headache and neuralgia; congestive, periodic, right-sided; severe, throbbing, pulsating pain. Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter and tighter. Constriction: of throat, chest, heart, bladder, rectum, uterus, vagina; often caused or brought on by the slightest contact. Oppression of chest, as from a great weight; as if an iron band prevented normal motion. Sensation of a cord tightly tied around lower part of chest, marking attachment of diaphragm. Heart feels as if clasped and unclasped rapidly by an iron hand; as if bound, "had no room to beat.". Pains everywhere; darting, springing like chain lightening, and ending with a sharp, vise-like grip, only to be again renewed. Menstrual flow ceases when lying down (Bov., Caust.). Palpitation: day and night; worse when walking and lying on left side (Lach.); at approach of menses. Fever paroxysm returns at 11 a. m. and 11 p. m.

Compare: Acon., Dig., Gels., Kal., Lach., Tab.

A marked sense of constriction or contraction about the heart, or in the chest, as if a hand, a vice, or something had clutched the part and was holding on very tightly. The same sensations are found about the neck of the bladder, and about the œsophagus. Organic diseases of the heart.

Heavy pain, like weight on vertex. Right sided headaches; periodic; pulsating and throbbing.

Hæmatemesis; hæmaturia; hæmoptysis. Congestions.

Constipation. Fluent hæmorrhoids.

Chilliness not relieved by covering; 11 A.M. and 11 P.M.

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

Night-blooming Cereus (SELENICEREUS SPINULOSUS)

Acts on circular muscular fibers, hence constrictions. It is the heart and arteries especially that at once respond to the influence of Cactus, producing very characteristic constrictions as of an iron band. This sensation is found in various places, œsophagus, bladder, etc. The mental symptoms produced correspond to those found when there are heart affections, sadness, and melancholy. Hæmorrhage, constrictions, periodicity, and spasmodic pains. Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter. Atheromatous arteries and weak heart. Congestions; irregular distribution of blood. Favors formation of clots speedily. Great periodicity. Toxic goitre with cardiac symptoms. Cactus is pulseless, panting and prostrated.

Melancholy, taciturn, sad, ill-humored. Fear of death. Screams with pain. Anxiety.

Headache if obliged to pass dinner hour (Ars; Lach; Lyc). Sensation as of a weight on vertex. Right-sided pulsating pain. Congestive headaches, periodical, threatening apoplexy. Blood-vessels to the head distended. Feels as if head were compressed in a vise. Pulsation in ears. Dim sight. Right sided prosopalgia, constricting pains, returns at same hour daily (Cedron).

Profuse bleeding from nose. Fluent coryza.

Constriction of œsophagus. Dryness of tongue, as if burnt; needs much liquid to get food down. Suffocative constriction at throat, with full, throbbing carotids in angina pectoris.

Constriction, pulsation, or heaviness in stomach. Vomiting of blood.

Hard, black stools. Diarrhœa in morning. Hæmorrhoids swollen and painful. Sensation of great weight in anus. Hæmorrhage from bowels in malarial fevers and with heart symptoms.

Constriction of neck of bladder, causing retention of urine. Hæmorrhage from bladder. Clots of blood in urethra. Constant urination.

Constriction in uterine region and ovaries. Dysmenorrhœa; pulsating pain in uterus and ovaries. Vaginismus. Menses early, dark, pitch-like (Cocc; Mag c); cease on lying down, with heart symptoms.

Oppressed breathing as from a weight on chest. Constriction in chest, as if bound, hindering respiration. Inflammation of diaphragm. Heart-constriction, as from an iron band. Angina pectoris. Palpitation; pain shooting down left arm. Hæmoptysis, with convulsive, spasmodic cough. Diaphragmitis, with great difficulty of breathing.

Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with violent and rapid action. Acts best in the incipiency of cardiac incompetence. Heart weakness of arterio-sclerosis. Tobacco heart. Violent palpitation; worse lying on left side, at approach of menses. Angina pectoris, with suffocation, cold sweat, and ever-present iron band feeling. Pain in apex, shooting down left arm. Palpitation, with vertigo; dyspnœa, flatulence. Constriction; very acute pains and stitches in heart; pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength. Endocardial murmurs, excessive impulse, increased præcordial dullness, enlarged ventricle. Low blood pressure.

Œdema of hands and feet. Hands soft; feet enlarged. Numbness of left arm. Icy-cold hands. Restless legs.

Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body. Frightful dreams.

Fever every day at same hour. Coldness in back and icy-cold hands. Intermittent; paroxysms about midday (11 am) incomplete in their stages, accompanied by hæmorrhages. Coldness predominates; cold sweat, with great anguish. Persistent subnormal temperature.

Worse, about noon, lying on left side; walking, going upstairs, 11 am and 11 pm. Better, open air.

Antidotes: Acon; Camph; China.

Compare: Digital; Spigel; Convallar; Kalmia; Naja; Magnol.

Tincture (best made from flowers), to third attenuation. Higher in nervous palpitation.

Constriction of the heart, as if an iron band prevented its normal movement; < lying on left side.

Constriction, general; of heart, chest, bladder, rectum, uterus, vagina, etc.

Hæmorrhages in connection with heart troubles; nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, bladder.

Palpitation; day or night; worse when walking and lying on left side, approach of menses.

Fear of death; believes the disease incurable.

Cactus grandiflorus is another great heart remedy, and its grand characteristic is not at all like Digitalis. It is a "sensation of constriction of the heart , as if an iron band prevented its normal movement." (Iodine has a sensation as if heart was squeezed together. Lilium tigrin., as if grasped and released alternately. Lachesis, constriction on awaking, throws off covering; Arsenicum alb., constriction or oppression on walking). This sensation of constriction is not confined to the heart, but is found in the chest, bladder, rectum, uterus, vagina; in short, it seems to be a general characteristic for this remedy, as does that of fullness for Æsculus hippocastanum.

The heart troubles of Cactus are quite apt to be caused by inflammatory rheumatism, where it is one of our best remedies.

Among the symptoms found, more or less connected with heart troubles, for which Cactus is indicated, are: Heavy pain on vertex like a weight (Glonoine; Lachesis at climacteric), a frequent symptom in persons suffering with heart troubles, cerebral congestion, profuse epistaxis, hæmatemesis, hæmorrhages from anus, hæmaturia or hæmoptysis. In any hæmorrhages, seeming to be in sympathy with heart trouble, think of Cactus.

Now, besides the leading characteristic of Cactus on the heart, we have other chest and heart symptoms which are very valuable. Oppression of chest or difficult breathing, as if the chest could not be expanded, with this sense of band-like constriction.

"Periodical attacks of suffocation, with fainting, cold perspiration on face and loss of pulse."

"Fluttering and palpitation of heart, increased when walking or lying on left side."

"Great irregularity of heart's action, intermittent pulse, valvular murmurs in organic diseases of heart."

"Palpitation < lying on left side (Nat. mur.).

Œdema of left hand, foot and leg."

"Rheumatism of all joints, beginning in upper extremities." (Ledum in lower.).

"Numbness of the left arm" (Aconite; aching, Rhus toxicod.).

"Cactus is a remedy of not very wide range; but of paramount importance in its sphere."

Sadness and bad humor ; taciturnity, melancholy, hypochondriasis.

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.

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

Hearing diminished by the buzzing in the ears. Pulsations in the ears (otitis).

Profuse bleeding of the nose.

Face bloated and red, with pulsation in the head.

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

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.

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.

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.

Women. Pulsating pain in the uterus and ovaries. Sensation of constriction in the uterine region. Very painful menstruation. Labor suppressed.

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).

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.

General weakness and prostration of strength. Sensation of constriction in the throat ; chest ; heart ; bladder ; rectum. Hæmorrhages, nose ; lungs ; rectum ; stomach.

Sleeplessness without cause ; or from arterial pulsations in the scrobiculus, and in the right ear. Delirium at night, on waking up.

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.

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

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).

Cereus grandiflorus. Night-blooming Cereus. (Mexico and the West Indies.) N. O. Cactaceæ. Tincture of youngest and tenderest stems and flowers collected in summer.

Aneurism. Angina pectoris . Apoplexy. Arteries, atheroma of. Asthma. Bladder, paralysis of. Brain, congestion of . Bronchitis. Diaphragm, rheumatism of . Dropsies. Ear, inflammation of. Fistula. Goître, exophthalmic. Hæmaturia. Hæmorrhages. Headache. Heart, affections of ; hypertrophy of. Indigestion. Intermittent fevers. Lungs, hæmorrhage from . Melancholy. Menstruation, painful. Miliaria . Neuralgia. Otitis. Ovaritis. Pneumonia. Prostate, affections of. Rheumatism. Sun, effects of. Sunstroke . Traumatic fever. Vaginismus.

We are indebted to Rubini of Naples and his devoted wife for the first provings of this great remedy. Cactus affects powerfully the entire organism, but its intensest operation is on the heart and circulation. In congestive violence it rivals Acon ., which is one of its antidotes. As with Acon ., too, the pains are unendurable; they extort screams. Sadness, apprehension, fear of death and a tendency to be easily frightened characterise the Cactus mental state, as they do many conditions of heart disease. Given as an organ-remedy it will benefit a large number of cases of weakened and painful heart; and if its keynote symptom of constriction — "as if an iron band prevented its normal movements," or "heart as if compressed violently and as violently struggled to burst its bonds" — is present, it will cure. Pain and numbness in left arm accompanying heart disease. Sharp pains in diaphragm and girdle pain round its attachment. Indigestion with these symptoms. Snader considers Cactus specially indicated where the heart is weak and the arteries atheromatous. This is confirmed by a venerable correspondent of the Hom. World (July, 1898), who, finding his temporal arteries much swollen and hard to touch, took several doses of Cact . 1x, with the result that in a few days they became normal. Snader uses the lower attenuations in this condition. A case of angina pectoris was cured by the 30th, with the following characteristic: sensation as though a swarm of hornets were going from pectoral region to heart. Cactus has the weakness and coldness of the extremities which characterise many heart cases, and render it an appropriate remedy. Constricting pains run through the pathogenesis (throat; chest; heart; bladder; rectum; vagina). Twitching of muscles, and sensation of constriction produced by touching the affected part. Hæmorrhages (nose; lungs; rectum; stomach). Sanguineous congestions, which are in a way a counter-part of the constrictive sensations. Prostration. Among the other prominent symptoms of Cactus are: "Heavy pain in vertex, like a weight." "Periodical attacks of suffocation, with fainting, cold sweat on face, and loss of pulse." "Fluttering and palpitation of heart, < when walking or lying on left side." "Heart disease with swelling of left hand only." "Numbness of left arm." "Rheumatism of all joints, beginning in upper extremities." The pains are very sharp, causing the patient to cry out. Many symptoms are < at night (" Night -blooming Cereus"). Menses cease at night. Many symptoms < lying down, or come on when lying down. Periodicity is well marked (quotidian fever, 11 a.m.). Chill at same hour every day, 11 a.m. or 11 p.m. Choudhury has reported a case cured, the characteristics being: "Chill severe, 11 a.m., thirsty, headache, body hot; no separate heat." When there is heat there is thirst and short breath. At times there is entire absence of sweat. There is < after eating (weight at stomach); and also < from missing a meal or fasting (prosopalgia and other neuralgias); < from lying on left side; from noise and light from heat; from sun's rays; from exertion; from damp.

Botanical relatives: Cereus bonplandii, C. serpentinus, Opuntia, and, in a sense, Coccus cacti, Antidoted by: Aco., Camph., Chi., Eup. perfol. Compatible: Dig. (tumultuous action of heart; slow, irregular pulse; scanty urine; dropsy); Eup. perf., Lach Nux, Sul. (pleurisy). Follows well: Aco., Arn., Ars., Bell., Bry., Cham., Gels., Ip., K. bro. (diaphragmitis), Lach., Nux, Rhus. Compare: In mental symptoms, Dig., Lach. In congestions to head, Bell., Glo. In pain and pressure in head, Arn., Carb. v., Coral., Iod., Nux, Op., Spi. Weight in vertex, Alo., Alum. In heart affections, Aco., Act. r., Amyl. n., Arn., Bell., Bov., Crotal., Dig., Eup. perf., Kalm., Lach., Lil. t., Naja, Puls., Spi., Zn. (as if a cap over heart); irritable heart, Cer. b., Hep., Pho. In constrictions (of chest) Zn., K. chlo., Cad. s., Alum., Bell., Bov., Arn., Cain., K. nit., Lach., Stram., (uterus) Murex, (vagina) Kali c. In menses ceasing at night, Caust. In leucorrhœa, Am. mur. In intermittents, Ars., Bry., Calc., Eup. perf., Nat. m:, Rhus, Sul. In dropsies, Dig., Kalm. In sleeplessness, Sul. Neuralgia and other forms of pain which are sure to appear when an accustomed meal is missed, Ars. Hæmoptysis, strong throbbing at heart, Aco. (Aco. has more anxiety and fever). Pain in diaphragm, Ran. b. (Ran. b. has pains shoot from front to back; Cact. has sharp pains in diaphragm and girdle pain round attachment). Reptile sensation, Crocus.

Sun. Damp. Love disappointment.

Sadness and bad humour; taciturnity; melancholy; hypochondriasis. — Cries, knows not why; < by consolation. — Screaming with pain. — During menses, hysteria. — Fear of death, belief that his disease is incurable. — Love of solitude.

Vertigo, from sanguineous congestions to head. — Heavy pressing in the head as if a great weight lay on the vertex; > from pressure; < from noise (even talking) and light. — Throbbing pain with sensation of weight and violent neuralgias in r. side of head; periodic. — Feeling as if head compressed in a vice, and would burst from severity of pain.

Dimness of sight; cannot see at a distance; objects seem obscured.

Hearing diminished by the buzzing in the ears. — Pulsations in the ears (otitis).

Profuse epistaxis; soon ceasing.

Paleness of the face. — Bloated and red; with pulsations in head. — Prosopalgia, right-sided, chronic; < from slightest exertion; bearable only when lying still in bed; brought on by wine, music, strong light, missing dinner at usual hour.

Loss of taste for food with nausea. — Tongue purple, thick brown sordes on teeth. — Prickling on point of tongue. — Breath very offensive.

Feeling of warmth about throat and chest. — Constriction of œsophagus, which prevents swallowing. — Constriction of throat exciting a constant desire to swallow. — Suffocative constriction at throat with full, throbbing carotids. — Scraping sensation at soft palate.

Appetite good; digestion weak. — Complete loss of appetite, stomach rejects everything. — After eating weight and distress in stomach. — Nausea in the morning, lasting all day. — Acrid, sour fluid in stomach which rises in throat and mouth. — Frequent vomiting. — Copious hæmatemesis. — Burning pulsation or heaviness in stomach. — Constriction or pulsation in scrobiculus. — Gastro-enteritis.

Pulsation in the cœliac artery (after dinner), burning extends down from it in flashes. — Sharp pains shooting through diaphragm and up into chest. — Colic with loose stool. — Insupportable heat in abdomen. — Pain and bearing-down in lower abdomen.

Constipation; stool hard and black. — Diarrhœa, watery, mucous, bilious (in forenoon). — Sensation of great weight (in anus), and urging to evacuate a great quantity, but nothing passes. — Copious hæmorrhage from the bowels (from the anus). — Itching in the anus. — Fluent hæmorrhoids. — Fistula in ano with violent palpitation of heart.

Constriction of neck of bladder. — Irritation in urethra, as if he would pass water constantly. — Urine passes by drops, with much burning. — Profuse urine, of a straw colour. — Urine, on cooling, deposits a red sand. — Hæmaturia; urination prevented by clots. — Frequent urging; at night, with a copious flow each time.

Prostatic affections; weight in anus.

Pulsating pain in uterus and ovaries. — Constriction in uterine region; round pelvis. — Constriction of vagina preventing coition (vaginismus). — Very painful menstruation; extorting loud cries. — Menses too early; scanty menstruation, ceasing while lying. — Labour suppressed. — Breast, tumour in; inflammation of.

Difficulty of breathing; attacks of suffocation with fainting. — Chronic bronchitis, with rattling of mucus. — Spasmodic cough and copious mucous expectoration. — Pricking pains in chest with oppressed respiration (pneumonia). — Oppression of breathing in going upstairs. — Catarrhal cough with much viscid expectoration. — Much rattling of mucus. — Cannot lie in a horizontal position. — Periodical suffocation, with fainting, and sweat on face and loss of pulse. — Hæmoptysis, with convulsive cough. — Sharp pains shooting from body to back and up into chest, with sensation of rush of blood to chest (rheumatism of diaphragm).

Difficulty of breathing; continued oppression and uneasiness as if the chest were constricted with a (hot) iron band, hindering respiration. — Whirling sensation from chest to brain; arterial throbbing. — Oppressed breathing from a weight on chest. — Congestion of the chest which prevents lying down; palpitation; constriction as from a tight cord around false ribs. — Sensation of a great constriction in middle of sternum, as if the parts were compressed by iron pincers, with oppression of breathing; worse on motion.

Pain deep in heart like a jerking body, frequently repeated. — Something seemed to be whirling up from chest to brain. — Sensation as if heart turned over ; as if it whirled round; as if some one was grasping heart firmly, with sensation as if it whirled round; as if heart was bound down and had not room enough to beat; as if bolts were holding it; as if compressed or squeezed by a band. — Lancinating pain in heart when perspiration fails. — Deathlike feeling at heart and round to l. back. — Acute pains, pricking and stitches in the heart. — Palpitation of the heart, day and night; < when walking, and at night, when lying on l. side. — Palpitation in small irregular beats (at times frequent, at others slow), from slightest excitement or deep thought, with necessity for deep inspiration. — Pains in apex of heart, shooting down l. arm to ends of fingers; feeble pulse; dyspnœa. — Endocardial murmurs; excessive impulse; increased precordial dulness; enlarged ventricle. — Heart disease with œdema of l. hand only. — Aneurism. — Atheromatous arteries.

Exophthalmic goître. — Cold in back and icy cold hands. — Rheumatism of shoulder. — Pain under l. shoulder-blade (with palpitation). — Lumbar muscles tender on pressure and stiff, esp. on first moving after repose.

Rheumatic pains, in shoulders, upper and lower arms, in hips down to feet; < in rest and in motion, and in all positions.

Pain in shoulders and arms. — Sore aching in l. arm down to elbow; down to fingers. — Numbness of l. arm. — Formication and weight in arms. — Œdema of the hands; worse in the l.

Restlessness of legs; cannot keep them still. — Œdema of the feet, extending to the knees; the skin is shining; pressure with the fingers leaves an indentation.

General weakness and prostration of strength. — Sensation of constriction: in throat; chest; heart; bladder; rectum. — Hæmorrhages: from nose; lungs; rectum; bladder; stomach. — Congestions.

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

Sleeplessness without cause; or from arterial pulsations in the scrobiculus, and in the r. ear. — Dreams: frightful; lascivious.

Slight chilliness towards 10 a.m. — Chilliness, with chattering of the teeth. — Chilliness not relieved by covering; 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. — Burning heat, with shortness of breath. — Scorching heat at night, with headache, following a chill and terminating in perspiration. — Coldness in back and icy cold hands. — Intermittent fever (quotidian) recurring every day at the same hour (for many successive days). — 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, and unquenchable thirst and perspiration.

General stupidity.
Difficulty in finding right expression when writing the symptoms down.
Thinks she will not recover ; weeps much ; despondent. θ Cardiac rheumatism.
Feels she is dying and thinks she will not live till morning, but has no fear of death. θ Cardiac rheumatism.
Love of solitude.
Irresistible inclination to cry (an intelligent woman).
Cries, knows not why ; consolation aggravates.
Screaming with pains, or complete loss of consciousness. θ Cardiac rheumatism.
Taciturn, unwilling to speak a word or to answer.
Cheerful and vivacious. θ Heart disease.
Sadness, taciturnity, and irresistible inclination to weep.
Invincible sadness
Hypochondriacal.
Fear of death ; he believes his disease incurable.
Indescribable fear that something terrible is going to happen to him.
During and after attack, great anxiety, fearing some organic lesion of heart which will cause sudden death. θ Angina pectoris.
Anxiety returning in evening.
Easily frightened, often awakes in a fright. θ Enlargement of heart.
Felt much alarmed on waking, but could not tell cause of alarm.

Vertigo from congestion ; face red, bloated ; pulsation in brain ; madness, anxiety.
Vertigo ; < from physical exertion, turning in bed, stooping, rising from a recumbent position, and deep inspiration.

Heaviness of head.
A numb pain with a stupefied feeling, extending from above eyes across base of brain.
Pain in forehead and eyes, with ringing in ears.
Stinging pain in forehead over eyes.
Pulsation in temples as if skull would burst ; intolerable at night.
Pain in right temple by spells, brought on by a glass of wine, attending opera, or after getting dinner at too late an hour.
Congestion to brain, bloodshot eyes, coma, suffocation, flushes in face ; fever, from exposure to sun's rays.
Heavy pain like a weight on vertex ; > by pressure, but < from sounds, hearing talking, or strong light.
Right-sided headaches and neuralgias which are periodic, pulsating and throbbing, and of an extreme type.
Pulsating pain, with sensation of weight in right side of head, continuing day and night, so severe as to make him cry out.
Heavy pulsating pain in head.
Troublesome pressure in right parietal bone ; later pain in left parietal bone, early on rising.
Pain and pressure on vertex, with palpitation and sensation as if heart was grasped. θ Coryza.
Tensive pain on vertex.
Feeling as if head was compressed in a vise and that it would burst open from severity of pain ; after catching cold.
Something seems to be whirling up from chest to brain, and all arteries seem to throb ; feels as if dying. θ Rheumatism of heart.
Headache from noise and light.
Headache commences in morning and grows, as day advances, to an unendurable height, with vomiting.
Excessive pain in head, so anxious he cannot remain in bed ; prostrated, weak.
Headache in different parts of head ; < from motion and deep inspiration.
Headache from sanguineous congestion or rheumatism.
Cerebral congestion.
Sanguineous apoplexy.

Pain in right temple coming in spells ; begins in morning, increases during day, with vomiting ; nose constantly dry ; must lie perfectly quiet ; < from keeping up, noise, light or exertion.
Pressive pain in left parietal bone, rather external.
Painful drawing in aponeurotic covering of occiput ; > bending head backward.
Cold, clammy sweat on forehead, upper and lower limbs. θ Cardiac rheumatism.

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Constrictions, contractions and congestions run through Cactus.

Determination of blood to the head, and coldness of the extremities. Or determination of blood to an organ, the chest, or the heart. There is never an equal circulation of blood in the body; it is spasmodic and irregular. Disturbed by contractions of circular fibres everywhere. When this comes in places where it can be felt; and realized by the senses, it is felt as contractions, as if caged in wires, and this gives us the key to Cactus.

Where contractions cannot be felt, where there is no sense of feeling, we know that it goes on as a spasmodic condition of circular fibres; but these contractions that are felt are more upon the surface of the body, and in organs having circular fibers tubes and canals.

They constrict, and this constriction is felt like a spasm. It has a sensation of tightness and constriction about the head, about the chest, about the attachments of the diaphragm, all over the abdomen. Contractions about the heart that are tonic in character, like a tight clutching; constriction.

"Constriction felt about the heart."

These constrictions are felt about the throat, in the oesophagus, causing a spasm; in the vagina, causing vaginismus and preventing coition.

In the uterus it produces the, most violent cramps. Clutching, and constrictions, as it the uterus were grasped and held tightly, like a spasm. But at these times, when these constrictions take place, there are congestions.

"Rush of blood to the part, with constriction."

"Violent congestion of the uterus with constrictions. Rush of blood to the chest, as if the chest was filled with hot gushes of blood, with constrictions, and constriction of the heart."

These peculiarities run through Cactus more markedly than any other remedy. Many remedies have similar things now and then, but in Cactus it is common; it is the nature of Cactus to constrict, to cause constriction in places where it has never been felt, and never been thought of.

Constrictions of the whole body, as if the body was held in a wire cage. Constrictions of the scalp, of the skin, growing tighter and tighter. Violent congestions that come on suddenly. Congestion of the brain, with hot head, flushed face.

At the beginning of complaints, at the beginning of pneumonia; congestive chill with hot head and cold body (like Arn.) with violent constrictions and tightness, as if the head were pressed, as if the membrane of the brain were too tight, as if the brain were covered with a tight cloth, and were being screwed tighter and tighter.

Uniform tightness of an organ, as if it were being bound tighter and tighter, but in tubes and canals it is a constriction of a particular part. Many times like as if tied with a string. Constriction, like hour-glass contraction, in the uterus.

It has inflammations, congestions, rush of blood to the part, gradually progressing to inflammation, and infiltration. Inflammation of various parts.

It has rheumatism. It is a remedy very useful in gouty constitutions; very useful in acute inflammatory rheumatism; and in this instance the congestion is in the joints that happen to be affected.

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Sanguineous congestions in persons of plethoric habit (Acon.); often resulting in hemorrhage.

Fear of death; believes the disease incurable (Ars.).

Hemorrhage: from nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, bladder

(Crot., Kreos., Mill., Phos.).

Headache: pressing, like a heavy weight on vertex; climac- teric; congestive, periodic, right-sided, severe throbbing pul- sating pain.

Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter and tighter.

Constriction: of throat, chest, heart, bladder, rectum, uterus, vagina; often caused or brought on by the slightest contact.

Pains everywhere; darting, springing, like chain-lightning, and ending with a sharp, vise-like grip, only to be again renewed.

Oppression of chest, as from a great weight; as if an iron band prevented normal motion.

Sensation of a cord tightly tied around lower part of chest marking attachment of diaphragm.

Heart feels as if clasped and unclasped rapidly by an iron hand; as if bound, "had no room to beat."

Palpitation: day and night; worse when walking and lying on left side (Lach.); at approach of menses.

Menstrual flow ceases when lying down (Bov., Caust.).

Motion; touch.

In open air.

Quotidian. Periodicity well marked. Return at same hour each day: pains down thighs, chill, fever, pains in uterus and ovaries.

11 A. M., or 11 P. M.—Characteristic.

Returns at same hour every day (Aran., Ced., Gels., Sabad.).

After exposure to heat of sun.

Without thirst. Coldness in the back and icy cold hands (after water in the cellar,—Ars., Rhus). Chilliness which lasts three hours, makes the teeth chatter, and does not go off although he lies down and covers himself up with many blankets. Chill not relieved by anything, either covering or external heat (Aran.).

Burning heat of 24 hours' duration (succeeding a three hours' chill), with dyspnœa and shortness of breath, and a smothering sensation so that he cannot remain quiet in bed. Great heat in the head and flushes in the face as if before a strong fire, which causes horrible anxiety. Insupportable heat in abdomen; lancinating pain in heart, suppressed urine, pains in bladder and pulsating pains in uterine region, vomiting, headache, coma, stupefaction, insensibility, terminating in very slight perspiration.

Some thirst at close of heat.

Heat sometimes wanting.

With great thirst (Cinch.). After burning heat, with shortness of breath, inability to remain lying on account of dyspnœa, a profuse sweat breaks out attended with unquenchable thirst for large quantities of cold water (Ars., Cinch.). Violent vomiting when perspiration fails.

Clean; taste soapy; stomach deranged.

From 11 P. M. till 12 M. the next day, complete apyrexia. The regularity of attack is perfect; and all stages are clearly defined. The congestive symptoms of brain and chest predominate during the heat (Bell., Cinch., Natr. m.). Rarely indicated, but has no substitute; effectually and permanently cures. May be compared with Aranea, Cedron, or Cinchona.

Quotidian intermittent; congestion to head; flushes in face; suppressed urine; pains in bladder; lancinating in heart; violent vomiting; sweat does not appear after exposure to sun's rays.

Clock-like regularity of paroxysm, 11 A. M. or 11 P. M.

Congestive and constrictive symptoms of head and chest predominate.

After exposure to intense heat of sun.

Taciturn, unwilling to speak a word, or to answer.
Cries, knows not why; consolation aggravates.
Unconquerable sadness.
Fear of death; he believes his disease incurable.
Hypochondriacal.

Vertigo from congestion; face red, bloated, pulsation in the brain; madness, anxiety.

Congestion to the brain, bloodshot eyes, coma, suffocation, flushes in face; fever, from exposure to sun's rays.
Heavy pain on the vertex, better by pressure, but worse from talking or strong light.
Pulsation in temple, as if the skull would burst; intolerable at night.
Headache worse right side, caused by excitement, as at opera; wine; belated dinner.

Dimness of the sight; weakness of sight returning periodically.

Hardness of hearing from congestion; pulsation in the ears; noise like running water or buzzing, after otitis from checked sweat.

Profuse nosebleed, soon ceasing.

Face: blue; cold sweat; pale; flushed.
Prosopalgia right-sided, chronic; worse from slightest exertion, tolerable only when lying still in bed brought on by wine, music, strong light, or missing dinner at the usual hour.

Fetid breath in the morning.

Constriction of throat, exciting a constant desire to swallow.
Constriction of the œsophagus; must drink large quantities to force the fluid into the stomach.

Loss of appetite.

After eating, weight and distress in the stomach.
After dinner, pulsation (in cœliac axis) behind stomach.

Nausea in the morning, continues all day.
Acrid, sour fluid, rising into the throat and mouth, making food taste acid.
Vomiting of blood.

Constrictive feeling at the scrobiculus cordis, extending to the hypochondria, impeding breathing.
Burning; pulsating in the stomach.

Engorgement of liver; acute or chronic from heart disease.
Feeling as of a cord tightly tied around lower part of chest; marking out the attachment of the diaphragm.
Sharp pains shooting through diaphragm and up into chest.

Insupportable heat in abdomen, as though something burned him internally.
Wandering pains in the umbilical region, which cease and recur periodically.

Morning diarrhœa, preceded by great pains.
Sensation of weight in anus, strong desire for stool, but nothing passes.
Pricking in anus, as from pins, ceasing on slight friction.

Constant desire to urinate.
Urine: profuse, straw-colored; passes in drops, with much burning; constriction of neck of bladder; suppressed in fever.
Hæmaturia; urination prevented by clots.

Menses too soon; black, pitch-like.
Menstruation with constrictive spasm of uterus; pains agonizing, worse evening; flow scanty, ceases when lying down.
Painful constriction around the pelvis, extending gradually towards the stomach, causing a sensation as of a great blow in the region of kidneys, making her cry out.
Pulsating pain in ovarian regions; pains extend down thighs, return periodically at the same time each day.

Inflammation of the mammæ: sensation of fulness in the chest; oversensitive to cold air.

Voice low, hoarse; constriction of the chest.

Oppression of breathing on going up stairs.
Oppression of the chest as from a great weight, difficult breathing; uneasiness, as if an iron band prevented normal motion of chest.

Spasmodic cough, with copious mucous expectoration.
Cough, with thick yellow sputa, like boiled starch.

Hæmoptysis, with marked arterial excitement (but less fever and restlessness than Acon.); convulsive cough.
Bronchitis, with palpitation of the heart; bronchial catarrh, from overaction of the heart.
Continual rattling of mucus; oppressed breathing; cannot lie in a horizontal position; attacks of anxiety and suffocation.
Prickling pains in chest, bloody sputa; hard, quick, vibrating pulse; sharp, wandering pains in chest and scapular region.
Feeling of constriction in the chest, impeding speech.
Congestion to the chest, which prevents lying down; palpitation; constriction of the chest.

Sensation of constriction in heart, as if an iron hand prevented its normal movements.
Pricking pains impeding breathing and movements of the body; oppression; cannot lie on the left side; blue face; pulse quick, throbbing, tense and hard.
Dull, heavy pain, worse from pressure; suffocating respiration; face blue; œdema, especially of the left hand and of the legs to the knees; feet icy-cold; pulse intermittent.
Pains in the apex of the heart shooting down left arm to the ends of the fingers; feeble pulse; dyspnœa.
Endocardial murmurs; excessive impulse; increased precordial dulness, enlarged right ventricle.
Palpitation with vertigo, loss of consciousness, dyspnœa; worse walking, at night, lying on the left side, at the approach of the menses and from any exertion.
Palpitation preceded by rumbling in the stomach.
Palpitation of long standing, caused by an unfortunate love affair.
Irregularity of the heart's action, at times frequent, at others slow; great irritation of the cardiac nerves; enlarged left ventricle.

Sensation of constriction in the middle of the sternum, as if compressed by iron pincers, with difficult breathing; worse from motion.
Rheumatism of the muscles of the chest.

Formication and weight in the arms.
Œdema of the hands, mostly of the left.

Restlessness of legs, cannot keep them still.
Œdema of legs, skin shining; dents remain a long time.

Motion: 30. Walking: 29. Ascending: 26. Exertion: 8, 29. Lying: 8, 23. Cannot lie: 40; horizontally: 28; on left side: 29.

General weakness, prostration, great depression, sleepless.
Fainting.

Sleepless without cause; or from pulsation in pit of stomach or in ears.
Delirium at night; on awaking it ceases, but returns in sleep.

Morning: 12, 16, 20. Evening: 23, 26. Night: 3, 29, 37. 11 A.M. and 11 P.M.: 40.

Exposure to sun: 3, 40.
Cold air: 24.

Coldness in back and cold hands.
Chill not relieved by covering; returns the same hour each day; regular paroxysms at 11 A.M. and 11 P.M.
Fever, intermittent, with congestion to head, flushes in face, suppressed urine, pains in bladder, lancinating in heart, violent vomiting; sweat does not appear; after exposure to sun.
Heat after chill, with dyspnœa, headache and thirst; with insensibility till midnight, then shortness of breath and inability to remain lying; followed by profuse sweat, with great thirst.

Returning periodically: 5, 19, 23, 40.

Right: 3, 8, 29. Left: 32.
Skin symptoms, lower left to upper right; then lower right to upper left.

Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter and tighter.

Organic diseases of the heart.
Dropsical affections.

Pressure: 3, 39. Friction: 20.

Dry, scaly herpes without itching; appeared first on left inner malleolus, next on outer side of right elbow; then on right inner malleolus, last on outer side of left elbow.

Antidotes to Cactus, Acon., Camphor., Cinchon. Compare: Acon. (in hemorrhages, cardiac excitement, etc., but later more anguish and restlessness); Magnolia grand. (heart); Convallaria maj. (heart).

A tincture is prepared from the fresh flowers and youngest twigs of Cactus grandiflorus L. (Cereus grand., Dec.).

Particularly a "heart remedy," most of the symptoms being the outcome of cardiac disturbance. ▶ A malarial feature is marked and valuable, and in this respect (only) it is to be compared with Gelsem.

Dig., Crotalus, Phos., Amyl nit., Spigel., Gelsem.

Muscles did not obey the will accurately, owing to defective vision or to other causes. ▶ Restlessness when sitting, legs thrown here and there involuntarily; R. with haste in his actions, he seemed never to be in time, with agitation at heart and feeling of oppression. ▶ Jerking-tearing in forehead and in limbs. ▶ Pain now and then during the day, in muscles of right upper arm, of chest, of calves, of soles. ▶ General discomfort. ▶ General malaise. ▶ Weakness; with sadness and bad humor; so that he does not venture to speak; so that he does not venture to walk. ▶ Inspiration of fresh air is very reviving.

Intermittent neuralgia, agg. fasting.

Congestive headaches. ▶ Threatening apoplexy. ▶ Neuralgic headaches, especially in right side and on vertex, periodical.

Dyspepsia, with heart symptoms, palpitation, constriction, etc.

Hæmorrhage from the bowels in malarial fevers and with heart symptoms.

Hæmorrhage from the bladder.

Inflammation of the ovaries, with constriction. ▶ Vaginismus. ▶ Dysmenorrhœa, pains occur periodically, menses cease on lying down, with heart symptoms.

Bronchitis, with rattling of mucus, great distress for breath, etc. ▶ Hæmorrhage from the lungs, with violent action of the heart, oppressed respiration (Compare Aconite).

Inflammation of diaphragm, with feeling of pain and soreness marking the attachments of the diaphragm.

Cardiac dropsy, with labored breathing, œdematous extremities, inability to lie down. ▶ Nosebleed, with hard, violent action of the heart and constriction. ▶ Acute inflammation of heart, pericardium and endocardium. ▶ Hypertrophy of heart. ▶ Violent palpitation. ▶ Angina pectoris. ▶ In all these diseases there is present the characteristic feeling as if an iron hand prevented the normal action of the heart, with suffocation, cold sweat, etc.

Intermittent fever, paroxysms about midday (11 A.M.), the paroxysms may be incomplete in their stages, accompanied by hæmorrhages, especially from the bowels; coldness predominates, not amel. heat; it may be followed immediately by cold sweat, with terrible anguish; in one case (a child) the paroxysm was accompanied by convulsions and hæmorrhage from the bowels.

▶ Hypochondriasis. ▶ Fear of death, belief that his disease is incurable. (Dig.). ▶ Sadness, taciturnity and weeping mood. ▶ Love of solitude. ▶ Anxiety, returning in evening. ▶ Passion at slightest contrariety. ▶ Feeling of having done violence to myself. ▶ Semi-remorse at having done something wrong. ▶ Disposition to do deliberately whatever was undertaken. ▶ Impulse to do something facetious; something bordering on the grotesque; to swallow large and unwholesome portion of medicine. ▶ Repugnance to the taking of more medicine. ▶ Talking nonsense in sleep at night and talking disconnectedly on waking. ▶ Difficulty in arriving at conclusions.

Aching from congestion; A., with weariness; causing anxiety, so that he cannot stay in bed; with weight on vertex, pressing in temples, pulsating in temples, ears and eyes, as if they would burst outward, weakness of vision and intolerance of light and sound. ▶ Empty feeling. ▶ Fulness as from congestion. ▶ Sensation at night as if brain had grown fast to skull. ▶ Vertigo; from congestion to head; causing staggering.

Aching in forehead; in left side in evening and on waking in night; in F., agg. bright light, loud voices or noises; intermittent, in F., agg. in house. ▶ Pulsating pain in temples, agg. at night. ▶ Pulsations in temples, as if skull would burst; in T. and ears, causing hypochondriasis. ▶ Weight in right temple, amel. pressure, and on right eyebrow. ▶ Pain like a weight on vertex; amel. pressure, agg. sound of talking and by any noise. ▶ Tensive pain in vertex every two days.

Pressure on right parietal bone; in left. ▶ Pain in left parietal bone in morning after rising; in left, in forenoon, more externally; in right side of head, agg. raising head from pillow; in right side, agg. sound of talking and by bright light; pulsating, in right side of head, with weight. ▶ Aching in cerebellum; in occiput, amel. quick exercise or mental activity; in O., agg. motion of head, with drawing. ▶ Painful drawing in aponeurotic covering of occiput, agg. bending head backward. ▶ Heaviness in posterior part of brain in retiring, agg. touch of pillow, amel. lying on side, with pain.

Vision weak; periodically; lost momentarily; lost, with circles of red light. ▶ Pulsations in ears. ▶ Hearing diminished by buzzing in ears. ▶ Noise all night like the running of a river.

Dry coryza, with necessity at night to breathe, with the mouth open; fluent and acrid C. ▶ Profuse nosebleed. ▶ Face pale, with emaciation; flushed; bloated (acceso) and red, with pulsating pain in head.

Tongue dry and coated, with slime in nares and throat. ▶ Sensation in mouth of having swallowed something unpleasant. ▶ Scraping in palate. ▶ Breath fetid in morning. ▶ Taste soapy; T. slimy, weedy. ▶ Scraping on soft palate. ▶ Felt in throat an accumulation of mucus, which was expectorated. ▶ Constriction in throat, causing frequent swallowing of saliva; C. in œsophagus, preventing swallowing, he must drink much water to force anything into stomach.

Appetite better than usual; at breakfast; great, but digestion slow and weak; lost; lost, with nausea; lost, with loss of taste of food. ▶ Thirst; satisfied with a small quantity of water at one time. ▶ Acrid, acid rising in throat, and mouth and making all food taste acid. ▶ Nausea; with retching and copious discharge of mucus. ▶ Copious vomiting of blood.

▶ Gastro-enteritis. ▶ Pain; terrible, with pressure inward, constriction of scrobiculus, extending to hypochondria and to fifth rib, as from a hot-iron cincture having involuted edges of an inch in size, pressing more and more till respiration was distressing. ▶ Pulsation; in pit; in cœliac artery after dinner, corresponding with pulsation of right temporal artery. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Oppression and weight. ▶ Stricture about S. and chest. ▶ Constriction in scrobiculus, extending to hypochondria and impeding respiration. ▶ Burning. ▶ Empty feeling. ▶ Sensation of something disagreeable in it. ▶ Uneasiness as from difficult digestion. ▶ Digestion bad, all food causes weight in S. and so much suffering that he prefers to fast. ▶ Digestion slow, even after eight or ten hours the taste of food rises in throat.

Borborygmi before stool. ▶ Pain; almost causing faintness. ▶ Distress here and there as if a serpent were turning around. ▶ Soreness, with distention. ▶ Burning internally. ▶ Externally heat in parieties. ▶ Cutting in umbilicus after stool; in lower umbilical and hypogastric regions. ▶ Wandering periodical pains in umbilical region. ▶ Constriction in groins, extending around pelvis.

▶ Copious hæmorrhage (Crotal, Phos.). ▶ Bleeding of hæmorrhoids after stool. ▶ Swollen painful varices outside. ▶ Pricking, amel. slight friction. ▶ Sensation of great weight and urging to evacuate a great quantity, but nothing passes. ▶ Sensation as if rectum were swollen, causing scraping during stool and prickling. ▶ Itching.

Soft, then pain in hypogastrium. ▶ Frequent diarrhœa from 6 to 12 A.M., preceded by great pain, no stool in afternoon; frequent bilious, always preceded by pain; bilious, with pain in abdomen; frequent mucous, preceded by drawing pain; copious watery, the morning stools always preceded by pains and borborygmus. ▶ Hard, difficult, then discharge of blood from anus. ▶ Constipation; as from hæmorrhoidal congestion.

Constriction of neck of bladder. ▶ Frequent urging at night, with a copious flow each time. ▶ Ineffectual urging. ▶ Micturition by drops, with much burning. ▶ Involuntary M. in sleep at 5 A.M. ▶ Frequent and copious M. ▶ Irritation in urethra as if he should urinate constantly. ▶ Redness of orifice of urethra. ▶ Heat in urethra, gradually increasing. ▶ Urine copious; after a long endeavor to pass it; and reddish, turbid; and straw-colored. ▶ Urine scanty. ▶ U. of the odor of freshly-drawn green tea. ▶ U. deposits a red sand.

Tendency to congestion to urinogenital system. ▶ Priapisms towards evening; just before retiring. ▶ Great desire, with priapisms. ▶ Copious emission about 12 M., after strong desire.

Pain in uterus and its ligaments every evening, increasing gradually till 11 P.M. ▶ Pulsating pain in uterus and ovarian region, like an internal tumor suppurating, at the same hour every day, extending to thighs. ▶ (Constriction in uterine region, gradually extending to stomach, causing sensation of a great flow in veins and eliciting cries, then passing off rapidly.). ▶ Painful menstruation, causing loud cries; painful, with prostration. ▶ Menses eight days too soon. ▶ Black, pitchy, rather abundant M. ▶ Scanty M., ceasing while lying.

Cough, which aggravated the suffering, with mucous expectoration; C., with thick expectoration like boiled starch and yellow; catarrhal, with much viscid expectoration; spasmodic, with copious mucous expectoration; obstinate, stertorous, agg. night; dry at night, from itching in larynx.

▶ Hæmoptysis (Phos.). ▶ Difficult breathing, with oppression and uneasiness as if chest were constricted by an iron band (Dig. in part.). ▶ Periodical suffocation, with fainting, cold sweat on face and loss of pulse (Dig.). ▶ Congestive asthma. ▶ Oppressed breathing when walking; agg. open air; with anxiety; as from weight on chest (Phos.). ▶ Short inspiration; short breathing when walking and when ascending stairs, with palpitation.

Stitches in right upper. ▶ Pain; in upper part of right side; at night in nerves running from left axilla to adjoining pectoral region; in left breast, agg. touch, amel. gently raising it; agg. walking and ascending stairs, causing deep breathing, with palpitation; between left second and third ribs when sitting quietly, causing deep breathing; sharp wandering, in cavity, worse in scapular region. ▶ Painful drawings in left muscles extending to shoulder-joint and impeding respiration and use of arm. ▶ Constriction as if bound; as from a tight cord around false ribs, with obstruction of breath; in middle of sternum, as with iron pincers, agg. motion, with oppression of breathing; preventing free speech, when forced to speak the voice is weak and hoarse; in upper part, hindering respiration. ▶ Oppression, with loss of breath; O. in left subclavian region. ▶ Congestion, preventing lying in bed.

▶ Pricking pain, impending respiration and motion of body. ▶ Acute pain, with stitches, causing loud cries (Spig.) with obstruction of breath. ▶ Heavy pain, agg. pressure. ▶ Heaviness and pressure. ▶ Constriction as by an iron band (Amyl. n.). ▶ Sensation as if a reptile were moving backward, agg. by day. ▶ Drawing.

▶ Increased action all forenoon, and on walking pulsation in chest, with anxiety; beating, agg. lying on side at night, with pulsation in chest, and with anxiety and restlessness. ▶ Rapid, short, irregular beats on rapid motion. ▶ Violent irregular beats, with pressure and heaviness; violent irregular beats towards evening, from a sudden movement while sitting; on slow walking, rising from a chair, turning suddenly. ▶ Single irregular beats, with necessity to inspire deeply. ▶ Small, quick, irregular pulsations in morning on moving in bed. ▶ Violent beat on slow walking in the room, with tightness of chest and deep breathing.

▶ Palpitation (Spig., etc.), agg. walking, and at night when lying on left side; on sitting and lying in evening, agg. lying on back, with oppression at heart; at night in bed, with pulsation in upper part of chest; on standing and sitting, with anxiety at heart; at beginning of any motion, with anxiety in chest rising into throat but continued walking does not bring on P.; from rapid motion, such as suddenly stooping or rising from a seat, and from excitement, not from rapid walking; in small, irregular beats from slight excitement or deep thought, with necessity for deep inspiration. ▶ Nervous palpitation, augmented gradually at occurrence of catamenia. ▶ Heart symptoms felt on waking at night and changing position, as in daytime. ▶ Symptoms so violent when beginning to walk that he must stand still and inspire deeply, the same occurred on ascending and descending stairs.

Irregular. ▶ Hard and sudden, but not rapid.

Pain in spine, worse in lumbar region, pressing down gluteal muscles to inferior extremities. ▶ In muscles of lower right side, extending into gluteals, in morning before rising, lasting all day.

Tearing in joints, now in shoulder, now in elbows, now in fingers, agg. right side. ▶ Pain towards evening; P. in various joints. ▶ Drawing in fingers, toes, knees and ankles. ▶ Drawing pain in axilla and in neighboring part of chest anteriorly, affecting the nerves, in bed, before sleep. ▶ Tearing in left shoulder-joint; in shoulder and arms, at first worse in joints, afterwards worse in long bones. ▶ Constriction of shoulders, so that he could not move them. ▶ Tearing through left arm; drawing in right arm in morning on waking, lasting through forenoon, after rising it extends into right wrist. ▶ Numbness of left arm at night, with pricking in little finger. ▶ Weariness of arms, with heaviness. ▶ Œdema of hands, agg. left.

Pain in knees; waking him at night, extending from right knee-cap to outer side of leg, agg. slightest motion of leg. ▶ Weariness of legs in morning after rising, with heaviness in them and with sleepiness. ▶ (Œdema of legs up to knees, the skin shines and pressure with fingers leaves an impression for a long time); (O. of feet up to inferior third of legs). ▶ Cramplike pain in right sole when walking.

Dry, scaly herpes (Ars.) at outside of elbows, right, then left ; on internal malleoli, left, then right. ▶ Formication of arms, agg. left, with weight and difficulty in raising them. ▶ Itching on lower part of tibia; on ankles; on abdomen in evening on undressing, and on calves; like stings of insects, on chest and abdomen every evening, amel. in bed on going to sleep, afterwards it appeared during the day, amel. at evening.

Sleepiness, lay down early and slept well all night with his clothes on; S. as after severe illness. ▶ Sleeplessness; in evening and night from arterial pulsations in pit of stomach and in right ear; the forepart of the night on account of rush of ideas, then restless sleep; the first hours in the evening, then sudden waking; with pulsations in both ears. ▶ Restless sleep. ▶ Interrupted sleep, and the next morning fatigue as if he had not slept at all. ▶ Delirium at night, ceasing on waking, but returning as soon as he goes to sleep. ▶ Voluptuous dreams, with painful erections; V. dreams, with emission of semen.

Shivering, which passes of quickly towards 2 P.M. ▶ Chilliness towards 10 P.M.; at night; with chattering of teeth. ▶ Fever every day at the same hour (Cedron), chill at 1 P.M. then heat, dyspnœa, pulsating pain in uterine region, ending in sweat, then from 11 P.M. till 12 A.M. complete apyrexia. ▶ Chill, then fever and headache, ending at 4 P.M. in sweat; C., then heat, which causes shortness of breath and madness, so that he cannot remain quiet in bed. ▶ Coldness in back and icy-cold hands, although he took warm soup and his face and hands became hot. ▶ Heat at night, with headache, dyspnœa and inability to remain lying; H. in head and face, causing madness and anxiety. ▶ Copious sweat after the hot stage.

Imperfectly known; its action on the circulation is very decided, causing great disturbance in the heart's action, predisposing to hæmorrhages, but, so far as we know, not producing fever; its similarity to some forms of malarial fever, however, is pronounced, and has proved useful clinically.

Weakness; pains, as from constriction by an iron band, or tight cord, generally > fresh, open air.

Sadness; hypochondriac mood.
Wishes to be alone, and not to speak to any one.
Fear of death; thinks he will not get well.

Pain, like a weight, on the vertex, > pressure, and < talking and noise.
Pulsating pain in the right side of the head, with a feeling of weight.
Pain, as if the head were in a vise, or as if it would burst open.
Threatening apoplexy.

Photophobia (with headache).
Vision dim.
Circles of red light before the eyes.

Profuse nose-bleed, even with pale face.

Sometimes pale, death-like, sometimes bloody.
(Pains in the right side, < slightest exertion, > lying still.)

Constriction of the throat, suffocative.

Vomiting blood.
Gastro-enteritis, with violent pain; sensation of constriction.
Palpitation in the pit of the stomach.

Sensation of great weight, and urging to evacuate, as though a large stool would follow, but without result.
Profuse hæmorrhage from the bowels, or from hæmorrhoids.
Diarrhœa irregular, with heart complications.

Frequent urging at night, with a copious flow each day.
Irritation in the urethra, as if necessary to urinate constantly.
Urine reddish, turbid, profuse.
Urine bloody.

Painful menstruation.
Menstruation too early.
Menstruation too scanty; ceases while lying down.
Inflammation of the ovaries, with constriction.
Vaginismus.
Dysmenorrhœa; pains occur periodically; menses cease on lying down, with heart symptoms.

Cough, with much viscid expectoration; spasmodic: worse at night.
Cough irritable, hacking, seeming to come from the trachea; worse at night, dry.
Expectoration free, yellow or jelly-like; like boiled starch.
Expectoration of blood.
Breathing difficult; a feeling as if the chest were constricted by an iron band.
Periodical suffocation, with fainting, cold sweat and loss of pulse.
Oppressed breathing, as from a weight on the chest.
Feeling as if the chest were bound by a tight cord, or as if bound by an iron band.
Congestion of the chest.

A feeling of constriction at the heart, as from an iron hand.
Acute pain in the heart, with stitches, causing loud cries, with difficult breathing.
Heart's action rapid, short, irregular, especially on rapid motion.
Heart's action irregular, with feeling of pressure and heaviness.
Palpitation; worse from walking and at night, when lying on the left side.
Palpitation from the least excitement, or from thinking, wit need of deep breathing.

Pain under left scapula.
Coldness of the back, with icy-cold hands.

Tearing pains in the various joints.
Numbness of the left arm at night, with prickling in the little finger.
Œdema of the hands, especially of the left hand.
Œdema of the lower extremities.

Sleeplessness, or restless sleep.

Intermittent.
Febrile attacks daily at same hour, generally about the middle of the day, from 11 to 1.
Coldness in the back, with icy-cold hands; the febrile stage not marked; chill may be followed by cold sweat, without intermediate fever.
(Malaria paroxysms accompanied by hæmorrhage, especially from the bowels, rarely by convulsions in children.)

Cact. / (Grand.) / Cato.

Cactus,- Rightly comes in sight
When we think of Aconite.
In demand for every itis,
When we deem that Aconite is.
All his ailments seem to start,
From congestion of the heart.
Binding squeezing at the heart,
As, indeed, in every part,
Is his key-note-with a pain
Like a weight upon the brain.
Fluttering at the stomach, may
Also indicate his way;
And a bleeding from the chest,
Caught with rattling-lungs oppressed-
Pain and spasm of the heart,
Palpitation taking part.
Ills that come and go on time,
With exactness of a rhyme.

Cato,-Has a Sense of Constriction at the heart.

Cato, the Sport,-Is joyous with Ida and Lily.

This Cato,-Who is subject to a sense of weight on the vertex.-Is in the Indian Cave with black Glono.

Sense of Constriction at the heart: Cact., spo., Aco., Arn., Iod., Lil. t.

Sense of Weight on the Vertex: Cact., Can. I., Cal. c., Verat. a., Sep., Glon. (Occiput feels heavy as lead, Pet.)

Indicated in affections of the heart and circulatory system, with a sense of painful constriction. Used chiefly in haemorrhages (nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, bladder), headache, menstrual affections, and in neuralgia, angina pectoris, etc.

Congestive headache, with sense of distended blood vessels in the head and a feeling as though the head were compressed in a vise.

Headache with pulsations in the ears.

Sense of constriction in heart, oesophagus, stomach, bladder, uterine region.

Dyspnoea, with sense of constriction about the heart, as though an iron hand were pressing it, or as though an iron hand were grasping it.

Palpitation of the heart, with pain shooting down the left arm; at approach of menses; angina pectoris.

Fear of death.

Dysmenorrhoea, with dark, pitch-like flow, pulsating ovarian and uterine pain, palpitation of the heart, and sense of constriction in the affected parts.

Menstrual flow ceases when lying down.

Worse on the left side; from physical exertion; when going upstairs.