Opuntia Ficus

The use of a testicular extract in cases of senile decay and nervous breakdown

was first proposed by Brown-Sequard, and formed one of the examples by which he illustrated

his doctrine of "inner secretions." He maintained that the various glands of the organism had, in

addition to their obvious secretion or excretion, an additional secretion which was not obvious,

but which materially contributed to the welfare of the organism. The doctrine is now generally

accepted, and the use of the Sarcodes in general medicine is based upon it. Homoeopathy can use

these remedies in both ways. Orch. has been used with success, in the triturations, in climacteric

sufferings; and in old-school practice in the sequelz of ovariotomy, in cases of debility, sexual

weakness, and premature senile decay.

Aberrations of mind; not entirely conscious of it—Blasphemous mood.—Alternately

busy and wanting to pray.—Alternately praying and swearing; fit of rage on thwarting of

plans.—Petulant; irritable; vindictive.—Omits and transposes letters in writing.

Pain in globe of r. eye —Burning smarting in margin of lids, with feeling of

contractions in line of lashes.

• ▸Bites inside of (r.
• ▸) cheek on chewing.
• ▸—Teeth sensitive.
• ▸—Tea tasting insipid.
• ▸—Saliva

in mouth.

Much mucus rises from throat.—Throat feels sore, afternoon; choked or pinching

feeling round top of larynx.—Shuddering on swallowing.

Poor appetite for breakfast—Went without dinner.—Nausea extending from

stomach down into bowels, with sensation as if diarrhoea would set in.—Nausea with dull, heavy

pain in stomach, with feeling as if cramps would set in.—Alternate nausea of stomach and

bowels.

Bloated abdomen.—Pain through spleen and heart—Sensation as if contents of

bowels in lower abdomen were very acrid; < in median line.—Excoriating, sick feeling in lower

third of abdomen, with sensation as if bowels had all settled down into lower abdomen.

Urgent desire; stools rather loose —Stool: loose 4 p.m.; evening stool easy

at first, afterwards hard; soft, but difficult, with urging in morning; smelling like strong

drugs.—In straining at stool varicose veins on |. side enlarged very greatly.

Not able to wait.—Urine: increased frequency and quantity; increased

quantity, but not frequency; bloody.

Pain in r. testicle; priapism, with lascivious desire; drawing pains in

r. testicle—Emissions.—Atrophied appearance of genitals.

Heaving respiration, which does not > oppression at

chest.—Oppression of chest > by a single heaving respiration.—Cold shudders right through

chest.

• ▸Pain in muscles of neck, |.
• ▸side anteriorly, 12.
• ▸25 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, later of r.
• ▸side anteriorly below

ear; pain and ache in both sides below ears, coming and going.

Pain in proximal ends of first and second metacarpal bones of |. hand.—Pain

in |. arm, just below elbow, palmar aspect.

After kneeling or resting on lower limbs they become numb, with tingling

• ▸and pricking.
• ▸—Pain: in muscles of inner side of |.
• ▸leg; head of fibula; r.
• ▸little toe.

Cold, chilly.—Cold feet; very chilly in the cold room; coldness of body.

Orchitinum.

• ▸Testicular Extract.
• ▸Spermin.
• ▸A Sarcode.
• ▸Trituration.

Compare; Chaparra amargosa (which Mexican physicians laud as a specific in chronic diarrhoea). Ricinus communis (diarrhoea, dysentery, obstinate chronic diarrhoea).

Second attenuation.