CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Constrictions
  • Sadness
  • Melancholy
  • Hemorrhage
  • Periodicity
  • Spasmodic pains
  • Feels as if caged
  • Atheromatous arteries
  • Weak heart
  • Congestions
  • Irregular distribution of blood
  • Favors formation of clots speedily
  • Toxic goitre with cardiac symptoms
  • Pulseless
  • Panting
  • Prostrated
  • Taciturn
  • Ill-humored
  • Fear of death
  • Screams with pain
  • Anxiety
  • Headache if obliged to pass dinner hour
  • Sensation as of a weight on vertex
  • Right-sided pulsating pain
  • Congestive headaches
  • Periodical headaches
  • Threatening apoplexy
  • Blood-vessels to the head distended
  • Feels as if head were compressed in a vise
  • Pulsation in ears
  • Dim sight
  • Right sided prosopalgia
  • Constricting pains in face
  • Returns at same hour daily
  • Profuse bleeding from nose
  • Fluent coryza
  • Constriction of esophagus
  • Dryness of tongue as if burnt
  • Needs much liquid to get food down
  • Suffocative constriction at throat
  • Full throbbing carotids
  • Angina pectoris
  • Constriction in stomach
  • Pulsation in stomach
  • Heaviness in stomach
  • Vomiting of blood
  • Hard black stools
  • Diarrhea in morning
  • Hemorrhoids swollen and painful
  • Sensation of great weight in anus
  • Hemorrhage from bowels in malarial fevers and with heart symptoms
  • Constriction of neck of bladder
  • Retention of urine
  • Hemorrhage from bladder
  • Clots of blood in urethra
  • Constant urination
  • Constriction in uterine region
  • Constriction in ovaries
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Pulsating pain in uterus
  • Pulsating pain in ovaries
  • Vaginismus
  • Menses early
  • Dark menses
  • Pitch-like menses
  • Menses cease on lying down with heart symptoms
  • Oppressed breathing as from a weight on chest
  • Constriction in chest as if bound
  • Hindering respiration
  • Inflammation of diaphragm
  • Heart-constriction as from an iron band
  • Palpitation
  • Pain shooting down left arm
  • Hemoptysis with convulsive spasmodic cough
  • Diaphragmitis with great difficulty of breathing
  • Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency
  • Violent and rapid heart action
  • Heart weakness of arterio-sclerosis
  • Tobacco heart
  • Palpitation worse lying on left side
  • Palpitation at approach of menses
  • Angina pectoris with suffocation
  • Cold sweat
  • Ever-present iron band feeling
  • Pain in apex shooting down left arm
  • Palpitation with vertigo
  • Dyspnea
  • Flatulence
  • Very acute pains and stitches in heart
  • Pulse feeble
  • Pulse irregular
  • Pulse quick
  • Pulse without strength
  • Endocardial murmurs
  • Excessive impulse
  • Increased precordial dullness
  • Enlarged ventricle
  • Low blood pressure
  • Edema of hands and feet
  • Hands soft
  • Feet enlarged
  • Numbness of left arm
  • Icy-cold hands
  • Restless legs
  • Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body
  • Frightful dreams
  • Fever every day at same hour
  • Coldness in back
  • Intermittent fever
  • Paroxysms about midday
  • Incomplete fever stages
  • Fever accompanied by hemorrhages
  • Coldness predominates in fever
  • Cold sweat with great anguish
  • Persistent subnormal temperature

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

Allen's Keynotes

  • sanguineous congestions in persons of plethoric habit
  • often resulting in haemorrhage; sanguineous apoplexy
  • fear of death; believes disease incurable
  • haemorrhage: from nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, bladder
  • headache, pressing like a heavy weight on vertex
  • climacteric
  • headache and neuralgia; congestive, periodic, right-sided; severe, throbbing, pulsating pain
  • whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter and tighter
  • constriction: of throat, chest, heart, bladder, rectum, uterus, vagina
  • often caused or brought on by the slightest contact
  • oppression of chest, as from a great weight
  • as if an iron band prevented normal motion
  • sensation of a cord tightly tied around lower part of chest, marking attachment of diaphragm
  • heart feels as if clasped and unclasped rapidly by an iron hand
  • as if bound, "had no room to beat"
  • pains everywhere; darting, springing like chain lightening, and ending with a sharp, vise-like grip, only to be again renewed
  • menstrual flow ceases when lying down
  • palpitation: day and night
  • worse when walking and lying on left side
  • at approach of menses
  • fever paroxysm returns at 11 a. m. and 11 p. m

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