CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Aneurism
- Angina pectoris
- Apoplexy
- Arteries, atheroma of
- Asthma
- Bladder, paralysis of
- Brain, congestion of
- Bronchitis
- Diaphragm, rheumatism of
- Dropsies
- Ear, inflammation of
- Fistula
- Gotre, exophthalmic
- Hmaturia
- Hmorrhages
- Headache
- Heart, affections of
- Heart, hypertrophy of
- Indigestion
- Intermittent fevers
- Lungs, hmorrhage from
- Melancholy
- Menstruation, painful
- Miliaria
- Neuralgia
- Otitis
- Ovaritis
- Pneumonia
- Prostate, affections of
- Rheumatism
- Sun, effects of
- Sunstroke
- Traumatic fever
- Vaginismus
- Sadness
- Apprehension
- Fear of death
- Constriction
- Pain and numbness in left arm accompanying heart disease
- Sharp pains in diaphragm
- Girdle pain round diaphragm's attachment
- Weakness and coldness of the extremities
- Twitching of muscles
- Sanguineous congestions
- Prostration
- 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
- Heart disease with swelling of left hand only
- Numbness of left arm
- Rheumatism of all joints, beginning in upper extremities
- Mind - Sadness and bad humour, taciturnity, melancholy, hypochondriasis
- Cries, knows not why
- During menses, hysteria
- Love of solitude
- Head - Vertigo, from sanguineous congestions to head
- Heavy pressing in the head as if a great weight lay on the vertex
- Throbbing pain with sensation of weight and violent neuralgias in r. side of head
- Feeling as if head compressed in a vice, and would burst from severity of pain
- Eyes - Dimness of sight
- Cannot see at a distance
- Objects seem obscured
- Ears - Hearing diminished by the buzzing in the ears
- Pulsations in the ears (otitis)
- Nose - Profuse epistaxis, soon ceasing
- Face - Paleness of the face
- Bloated and red, with pulsations in head
- Prosopalgia, right-sided, chronic
- Mouth - Loss of taste for food with nausea
- Tongue purple, thick brown sordes on teeth
- Prickling on point of tongue
- Breath very offensive
- Throat - Feeling of warmth about throat and chest
- Constriction of sophagus, 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
- Stomach - 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 hmatemesis
- Burning pulsation or heaviness in stomach
- Constriction or pulsation in scrobiculus
- Gastro-enteritis
- Abdomen - Pulsation in the cliac 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
- Stool and Anus - Constipation, stool hard and black
- Diarrha, watery, mucous, bilious (in forenoon)
- Sensation of great weight (in anus), and urging to evacuate a great quantity, but nothing passes
- Copious hmorrhage from the bowels (from the anus)
- Itching in the anus
- Fluent hmorrhoids
- Fistula in ano with violent palpitation of heart
- Urinary Organs - 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
- Hmaturia, urination prevented by clots
- Frequent urging, at night, with a copious flow each time
- Male Sexual Organs - Prostatic affections, weight in anus
- Female Sexual Organs - 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
- Respiratory Organs - 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
- Hmoptysis, 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)
- Chest - 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
- Heart and Pulse - 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
- Sensation as if heart whirled round
- Sensation as if some one was grasping heart firmly
- Sensation as if heart was bound down and had not room enough to beat
- Sensation as if bolts were holding it
- Sensation 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
- 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, dyspna
- Endocardial murmurs, excessive impulse, increased precordial dulness, enlarged ventricle
- Heart disease with dema of l. hand only
- Atheromatous arteries
- Neck and Back - Exophthalmic gotre
- 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
- Limbs - Rheumatic pains, in shoulders, upper and lower arms, in hips down to feet
- Upper Limbs - 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
- dema of the hands, worse in the l.
- Lower Limbs - Restlessness of legs, cannot keep them still
- dema of the feet, extending to the knees, the skin is shining, pressure with the fingers leaves an indentation
- Generalities - General weakness and prostration of strength
- Sensation of constriction: in throat, chest, heart, bladder, rectum
- Hmorrhages: from nose, lungs, rectum, bladder, stomach
- Congestions
- Skin - Dry, scaly herpes on the outside of the elbow, and on the r. internal malleolus
- Sleep - Sleeplessness without cause, or from arterial pulsations in the scrobiculus, and in the r. ear
- Dreams: frightful, lascivious
- Fever - 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 dyspna, pulsating pain in the uterine region, terminating in slight perspiration
- Quotidian, 11 a.m., great coldness for two hours, then burning heat, with great dyspna, violent pain in the head, coma, stupefaction, insensibility till midnight, and unquenchable thirst and perspiration