Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

N. O. Cactaceae. Tincture of stems.

Clinical.─Anger, fits of. Enuresis. Epistaxis. Heart, pains in. Impotence.

Characteristics.─The heart was less prominently affected by Cer. serp. than by the other Cacti; but pains in head and a paralysed feeling were experienced. A voluptuous feeling; dwindling of sexual organs; mental irritations were prominent. < On exposure to cold, to which there is great sensitiveness. J. H. Fitch proved Cer. s., as well as Cer. b. Kunze also proved Cer. s.

Relations.─Compare:─Cact. g., Cereus bon., Coni.; Pso. (sensitiveness to cold). Anac. (inclined to swear).

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Angry at trifles.─Fits of sudden ungovernable rage.─Inclined to swear.─Prays all night.─Makes mistakes, reading or writing.

2. Head.─Dizzy in morning, with mucus in throat.─Tensive pain in head and brain.─Feeling as if back part of brain were detached from front, and rotten.

5. Nose.─Epistaxis.

8. Mouth.─At dinner bites inside mouth, r. cheek.

9. Throat.─Much tenacious mucus in throat and back of nose.

14. Urinary Organs.─Pain in region of r. kidney.─Urging to urinate.─Enuresis.─Urine yellowish; or pale tea-green.

15. Male Sexual Organs.─Genital organs small and dwindled.─Excited genital condition.─Emission, seems as if passed in a lump.─Emission followed by cutting pain first in one, then in other testicle.

19. Heart.─Paralysed feeling in heart.─Pain after exertion, followed by short breath, > by full breath.─Afterwards, short sharp pains through heart.─Thrusting pains at heart followed by sighing respiration.

27. Fever.─Very sensitive to cold.