CACTUS
GRANDIFLORUS
Common
Name: Night-blooming cereus
Mental:
Shrieking
from pain.
Hypochondriasis.
Believes disease is incurable, desire to take large doses of
medicine.
Fear
of death or something will happen. Suspicious, mistrustful.
Delusion
that she is caught in wires.
Physical:
Constrictions,
contractions and congestions.
Constriction
like a wire that gets twisted tighter and tighter. Whole body feels caged.
Severe,
violent constricting pains in which the patient cries out from pain.
Action
around heart and circulation. Heart feels as if clasped and unclasped rapidly
by iron hand.
Numbness
or pains extending into the left arm, hand or even fingers with heart disease.
Swelling
of left hand in heart disease.
Haemorrhages with constriction.
Headache
with severe congestion, followed by epitaxis with
flushed face.
Constriction
and choking sensation in the throat < fasting, usually on the right side.
Sensation
as if a weight on vertex. Right sided.
Violent
palpitation < lying on left side at approach of menses.
Severe
constricting pains during menses.
Severe
dysmenorrhea or metrorrhagia with clots, pains as
each clot is passed.
Worse
11am and 11pm.
KEY
NOTES:
Delirium
on waking at night
Delusion
body is wrapped
Delusion
is about to die with rheumatism or heart disease
Impulse
to do strange morbid things
Mania
during fever and heat
Vertigo
and headache on deep inspiration
Headache
pressing on vertex when hearing talking
Hemorrhage
from anus with heart symptoms
Constriction
of vagina on touch and coition
Respiration
rattling night and day
Congestion in chest lying down impossible