CASES

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

CASES