*N. O. Cactaceae. Tincture of stems.
Clinical
Anger, fits of. Enuresis. Epistaxis. Heart, pains in. Impotence.
Characteristics
The heart was less prominently affected by *Cer. serp. than by the other *Cacti, but pains in head and a paralysed feeling were experienced. A voluptuous feeling, dwindling of sexual organs, metal irritations were prominent. Worse On exposure to cold, to which there is great sensitiveness. ***J. H. Fitch proved *Cer- s., as well as *Cer-b. Kunze also proved *Cer-s.
Relations.
*Compare: Cact. g., Cereus bon., Coni.,, Psorinum (sensitiveness to cold.). Anacardium (inclined to swear).
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Angry at trifles. Fits of sudden ungovernable rage. Inclined to swear. Prays all night. Makes mistakes, reading or writing.
Head
Dizzy in morning, with mucus in throat. Tensive pain in head and brain. Feeling as if back part of brain were detached from front, and rotten.
Nose
Epistaxis.
Mouth
At dinner bites inside mouth, right cheek.
Throat
Much tenacious mucus in throat and back of nose.
Urinary Organs
Pain in region of right kidney. Urging to urinate. Enuresis. -Urine yellowish, or pale tea-green.
Male Sexual Organs.
Genital organs small and dwindled. Excited genital condition. Emission, seems as if passed in a lump. Emission followed by cutting pain first in one, then in other testicle.
Heart
Paralysed feeling in heart. Pain after exertion, followed by short breath, better by full breath. Afterwards, short sharp pains through heart. Thrusting pains at heart followed by sighing respiration.
Fever
Very sensitive to cold.