Cereus Bonplandii

The principal symptoms of Cer. bon. are in connection with the heart, as in the

case of Cactus, with which it must he compared. The symptoms are < at night; < from pressure

• ▸of clothing, > undressing.
• ▸Cer.
• ▸bon.
• ▸was proved by John H.
• ▸Fitch in substantial doses (7.
• ▸P.
• ▸, xii.

• ▸533).
• ▸The prover lost 7 1/2 lbs.
• ▸in weight.
• ▸He felt weighed down by an incubus.
• ▸When mental

symptoms subsided, bodily symptoms increased and vice versd. Could not bear contact of

clothes; felt better on undressing. Among the marked symptoms were: Wants to be at work; on

something useful. Pains through globe of eyes and orbit. Pain through heart; in left great pectoral

muscle; left side of chest. Expanding sensation in chest followed by sudden collapse. The effect

• ▸on the nervous system passed off in four or five days.
• ▸The pains of Cer.
• ▸b.
• ▸have a tendency to

spread to other parts. Most appear on left side. "Itching in right popliteal space" lasted eight or

nine years after the proving. "Itching with roughness of the skin like eczema above left knee

anteriorly." "Itching, with eruption like herpes below left scapula remained permanent." Fitch

(who regards Cer. b. as an "antipsoric of remarkable power") cured with it: (/) a case of eczema

of both hands extending up to elbows. (2) Deposits in urine. (3) Dropsy of cardiac and renal

• ▸origin.
• ▸(4) Left intercostal neuralgia.
• ▸(5) Anterior crural neuralgia.
• ▸Also two cases of

insanity—(6) one in a young woman, gloomy, restless, inclined to curse, swear, and throw things

at persons, if resisted; (7) the other in a married woman who had spiritual delusions—that she had

committed the unpardonable sin, &c. This came on originally after confinement.

Great desire to work and to be doing something useful.

Desire to engage in work; to have all time employed; to be engaged in something

• ▸useful.
• ▸—Desire to be dissolved.
• ▸—Disposition to pray.
• ▸—Apathetic; difficult to keep attention

• ▸fixed.
• ▸—Irritable; inclined to curse and swear.
• ▸—Time seems to pass slowly.
• ▸—Spiritual delusions;

thinks she has committed the unpardonable sin.

Occipital headache and pain through the globe of the eyes and orbits (Cedron; Onos). Pain across the brain from left to right. Pain along right malar bone running to temple.

Feeling as if head suspended from some support under skull and base of brain.—Head

• ▸felt drawn to 1.
• ▸backward.
• ▸—Pain extending through forehead (1.
• ▸) to occiput.
• ▸—Painful stunning

• ▸feeling in r.
• ▸frontal bone.
• ▸—Sensation as of a board bound to back of head, more I.
• ▸—Severe pain in

occiput; running through to brain; < walking or descending steps.—Profuse failing off of hair.

• ▸Heavy feeling in eyes; soreness.
• ▸—Pains through globe of r.
• ▸eye; of 1.
• ▸eye and

orbit.—Strong light painful—Perception of a cluster of orange-coloured spots, round and

symmetrical.

Pain behind |. mastoid process extending upward and backward; through ear and head.

• ▸Pain in kidneys; as from calculus.
• ▸—Sticking pain r.
• ▸ureter.
• ▸—Deep-

coloured, strong-smelling urine.

Clearing the larynx of mucus.—Breath fetid—Long, deep, uneasy

respirations, < before rising.—Cough on throwing off outer garments.

• ▸Convulsive pains at the heart; feels as if transfixed.
• ▸Pain in chest through heart, with pain running toward spleen.
• ▸Pain in left pectoral muscle and cartilages of left lower ribs.
• ▸Sensation of a great weight on heart, and pricking pain.
• ▸Hypertrophy of heart.
• ▸Difficult, sighing respiration, as from some compression of chest.

Chest expands itself seemingly to its utmost capacity, in an instant collapsing, to be

• ▸repeated.
• ▸—Deep inspiration at intervals; as from oppression.
• ▸—Intercostal neuralgia.
• ▸—Somewhat

persistent pain in cartilages of lower |. false ribs —Chest feels empty.

• ▸Irritable heart——Heart symptoms < lying |.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Pains in chest |.
• ▸side and through

heart.—Pains in left pectoralis major—Convulsive pains at heart on going to bed at night.

Sensation as of a great stone laid on heart; soon after as if chest broken out just in front of

heart.—As if heart transfixed by a bolt —Pricking pain.

Pain on 1. side of neck; and along clavicle; at night.—Pain in upper portion

of spine and medulla, running upwards and expanding to surface of brain, < stooping or bending

• ▸head forward.
• ▸—Pains running along back down to arms.
• ▸—Vertebral spines tender to touch.
• ▸—Pain

in r. scapula.

• ▸Pain in r.
• ▸hip.
• ▸—Pain inner side |.
• ▸knee.
• ▸—Itching in r.
• ▸popliteal space.

• ▸24.
• ▸Generalities——Lost 7 1/2 Ibs.
• ▸in weight.
• ▸—Ill at ease, restless—When mental symptoms

subside, bodily ones are <, and conversely.

Pain in neck, back, shoulders, down arms, hands and fingers. Pain in knees and joints of lower extremities.

Itching of skin (Dolich; Sulph).

• ▸Pustules on body, esp.
• ▸on nates.
• ▸—Intolerable itching.
• ▸—(The skin symptoms persisted

for nine years.)

Fits of yawning.—Drowsy; slept all night without undressing.—Dreamed: of large

assemblies; of forgotten scenes.—Re-dreamed old dreams.

• ▸Eczema.
• ▸Emaciation.
• ▸Eyes, neuralgia of.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Insanity.
• ▸Kidneys,

affections of. Neuralgia.

• ▸Compare:—Cact.
• ▸, Anhalon.
• ▸(visions of colours), Graph.
• ▸; Anac.
• ▸(tendency to swear).

• ▸Compare: Cactus; Spigel; Kalmia; Cereus serpentinus (Very irritable with tendency to swear; wild anger and low morals.
• ▸Disturbance in speech; in writing leaves off the last syllable.
• ▸Paralyzed feeling.
• ▸Pains in heart, and dwindling of sexual organs.
• ▸Emissions, followed by pain in testicles).

Third to sixth attenuation.