Dr. Reckeweg Cactus Grandiflorus

Causes and symptoms for Dr. Reckeweg Cactus Grandiflorus:

• Cactus is a chief remedy for congestive headaches which are periodical, threatening and worse on right side. There is a sensation as of a weight on vertex.

• Cactus Grandiflorus also has marked action on heart affections; sensation of constriction in the heart, as if iron band prevented its normal movement.

• Whole body feels as if caged and each wire is twisted tighter and tighter. Pains are of pricking in nature.

• Dysponea (breathlessness) from least exertion. Pulse is quick, throbbing, tense and hard. Pains go round to axilla, back and scapula of the left side.

• Worse by walking, at night and by lying on left side. Better after sleep, rest and in open and fresh air. Cactus favors the dissolving of clots speedily.

• Acts on circular muscular fibers, hence constrictions.

• Characteristic constrictions as of an iron band, sensation found in various places, esophagus, bladder, etc.

• Haemorrhage, constrictions, periodicity, and spasmodic pains. Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter.

• Congestion; irregular distribution of blood. Favors formation of clots speedily. Great periodicity.

• Cactus Grandiflorus is also indicated in chilliness not relieved by covering.

Mind

-Melancholy, taciturn, sad, ill-humored. Fear of death.

- Screams with pain. Anxiety.

- SADNESS IN HEART DISEASE , Closed person.

- Anxiety about health, Fear of heart disease worse by morning on waking.

- Sensitive to light, noise.

- Difficulty in expressing ideas on writing.

Generalities

- CONSTRICTION, violent pain, as if caged in wire.

- Congestion in painful part.

- Hemorrhages, with constriction, Internal hemorrhage and thrombosis.

- Worse 11 A.M. and P.M, LYING, esp.on left side.

- Better by open air.

- Periodicity.

Head

- Headache if obliged to pass dinner hour.

- Sensation as of a weight on vertex. Right-sided pulsating pain. Congestive headaches, periodical, threatening apoplexy.

- Blood-vessels to the head distended. Feels as if head were compressed in a vise.

- Pulsation in ears. Dim sight. Right sided constricting pains, returns at same hour daily.

- Pain with severe constriction; with sensation of pressure, 11 p.m.

- Pain is followed by epistaxis (nosebleed) with congestion, flushed red face

-Worse fasting, noise of talking. Better by pressure.

Nose

- Profuse bleeding from nose. Fluent coryza.

- Epistaxis, from congestion

Face

- Congestion.

- Pain worse right, least exertion, wine, noise, light, fasting

Throat

- Constriction of esophagus, Swallowing difficult, needs to drink when swallowing food

- Dryness of tongue, as if burnt; needs much liquid to get food down.

- Suffocative constriction at throat, with full, throbbing carotids in angina pectoris.

- Constricting sensation, with pulsation of carotids.

Stomach

Constriction, pulsation, or heaviness in stomach. Vomiting of blood.

Stool

- 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.

Urine

- Constriction of neck of bladder, causing retention of urine.

- Hemorrhage from bladder with Clots of blood in urethra.

- Constant urination.

Female

- Constriction in uterine region and ovaries.

-Dysmenorrhoea; pulsating pain in uterus and ovaries.

- Menses early, dark, pitch-like; cease on lying down, with heart symptoms.

- Severe constricting pains in uterus, during menses or labor.

- Clotted menses; each clot that is passed gives temporary relief from pain.

- Constricting pains during coition.

Chest

- Oppressed breathing as from a weight on chest.

- Constriction in chest, as if bound, hindering respiration.

- Heart-constriction, as from an iron band.

- Angina pectoris. Palpitation; pain shooting down left arm.

- Hemoptysis, with convulsive, spasmodic cough.

- Inflammation of diaphragm, with great difficulty of breathing.

- Pain aggravated by lying on left side, exertion, talking loudly.

- Pain ext. to left arm; with edema of hand and with difficult respiration.

- Palpitations worse by exertion, from unrequited affections, lying left side; at night from fearful dreams, menses.

- Oppression as from a weight.

Respiration

- Asthmatic, from heart disease.

- Rattling of mucus.

- Periodic suffocative spells.

Heart

- Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with violent and rapid action.

- Acts best in the incipiency of cardiac incompetence.

- Heart weakness of arterio-sclerosis. Tobacco heart.

- Violent palpitation; worse lying on left side, at approach of menses.

- Angina pectoris, with suffocation, cold sweat, and ever-present iron band feeling.

- Pain in apex, shooting down left arm.

- Palpitation, with vertigo; dyspnoea, flatulence.

- Constriction; very acute pains and stitches in heart; pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength.

- Endocardial murmurs, excessive impulse, increased precordial dullness, enlarged ventricle.

- Low blood pressure.

Extremities

- Edema of hands and feet with heart problems. Hands soft; feet enlarged.

- Numbness of left arm. Icy-cold hands. Restless legs.

- Rheumatic complaints, Worse evening, rest, beginning to move; better continued motion.

Sleep

- Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body.

- Frightful dreams with dreams of falling.

Fever

- Fever every day at same hour.

- Coldness in back and icy-cold hands.

- Intermittent; paroxysms about midday (11 am) incomplete in their stages, accompanied by hemorrhages.

- Coldness predominates; cold sweat, with great anguish.

- Persistent subnormal temperature.

Modalities

Worse, about noon, lying on left side; walking, going upstairs, 11 am and 11 pm. Better, open air.