Materia Medica

Cereus Bonplandi

A Night-blooming Cereus

Mind

Great desire to work and to be doing some- thing useful.

Head

Occipital headache and pain through the globe of the eyes and orbits. [Cedron; Nos.]. Pain across the brain from left to right. Pain along right malar bone running to temple.

Chest

Convulsive pains at the heart; feels as if transfixed. Pain in chest through heart, with pain run- ning toward spleen. Pain in left pectoral muscle and cartilages of left lower ribs. Sensation of a great weight on heart, and pricking pain. Hypertrophy of

Heart

Difficult, sighing respiration, as from some com- pression of chest.

Extremities

Pain in neck, back, shioulders, down arms, hands and fingers. Pain in knees and joints of lower extremities.

Skin

Itching of skin. [Dolich.; Sulph.]

Relationships

Compare: Cactus; Spigel.; Kalmia; Cereus scrpentinus. .(Paralyzed feeling.Pains in heart, and dwindling of sexual organs. Emissions, fol- lowed by pain in testicles.)

Dose

Third to sixth attenuation.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 209. Public domain.

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