CEREUS BONPLANDII.
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. ► On
walking out, descending one or two steps, had a severe pain, forcing from without inwards in
the occiput, on a line with the sagittal suture. ► External
Head. ► On combing the hair, find it falls out
in considerable quantities (second day).
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.]
► Pain in right ring finger (after one hour). ► Pain in left ring finger returning (after four hours and
one-third). ► Pain in right little finger. ► Pain, with lameness in left finger (after five hours and a
half).
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.® 2000
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