Cereus Serpentinus

[See also Dr. Burt's proving under Cactus.]

Cereus serpentinus, Haw.

Nat. order , Cactaceæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the stems.

Authority.

Dr. John H. Fitch, proving with 15 drops (first day) and 1/2 dr. of tincture (third day), Kunze's Monograph on Cactus, p. 31.

MIND

• Emotional.
• Light, lascivious feeling (second day).
• Prone to lascivious thoughts (tenth day).
• Pray nearly all night (third day).
• At night, remained at a late hour at prayer; intended to remain all night at prayer, but fell asleep.
• Very irritable, inclined to profanity (sixteenth day).
• Very irritable, nervous, swear a little (third day).
• Angry at trifles.
• Fit of sudden ungovernable rage (eighth day).
• Great apathy for several days (tenth day). [10.]
• Insipidity of life; everything mechanical, no enjoyment (eighth day).
• Intellectual.
• Feel mixed up, rage, swearing mood (nineteenth day).
• Unfitness for study; after reading a short time, get impression to desist (ninth day).
• Mistakes made in conversation; use the word fat for hat.
• Omit the final part of a word in writing (ninth day).

HEAD

• Felt dizzy in morning, raising, with a scraping effort, mucus from the throat (second day).
• Tensive pain in head and brain.
• Feeling as if the back part of the brain were detached from the anterior portion and rotten (eighth day).

EYE

• Pain; slight drawing in right orbit (eighth day).
• Itching of the inner canthus of the right eye, internal surface of the lid bordering the tarsal cartilage.

EAR. [20.]

• Singing in right ear (ninth day).

NOSE

• Epistaxis (sixteenth day).

FACE

• In morning, awoke with a yellowish hue of countenance; slightly chilly (no fire in room), (second day).

MOUTH

• Tongue has been dry for two or three days (fifth day).
• At dinner, bite the inside of the mouth, right cheek (second day).

THROAT

• Mucus in throat (sixteenth day).
• Mucus in throat and nose adhering (seventh day).
• In afternoon, much mucus in throat, also in evening (tenth day).
• Much loose mucus in throat (pharynx), (seventh day).
• Much tenacious mucus in throat, detached with difficulty (fourth day). [30.]
• Much raising of mucus from the throat, and discharged from the throat (seventeenth day).
• Much expectoration of congealed mucus from the throat and nasal passages, through the course of the morning.
• At times, considerable expectoration of mucus from throat, and dislodgment of mucus from nostrils.
• Clearing of the throat of mucus very often (seventeenth day).
• Throat cleared of mucus a great deal of the time this morning (twentieth day).

ABDOMEN

• Gas passed from bowels (fourth day).
• A good deal of gas passed by the bowels at times, and symptoms recurring again (fifth day).
• Very strongly smelling flatus from the bowels (eighth day).

STOOL

• 8.40 A.M., loose stool (second day).
• 9.30 P.M., had a stool like a large lump; difficult; felt better afterward (eighth day).

URINARY ORGANS. [40.]

• 10 P.M., pain in the region of the right kidney (eighth day).
• Urgency to urinate (third day).
• Enuresis (sixteenth day).
• Urine increased; urinate every four hours (third day).
• Urine pale tea-green (ninth day).
• Urine yellowish, with a tinge of green (ninth day).
• Urine the past three days deep-colored (fifth day).
• At noon, in passing urine, it precipitated a cloudy sediment (fifth day).

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Genital organs seem small (third and fourth days).
• Genital organs small and dwindled. [50.]
• Excited condition of genital organs; hyperæmia and hyperasthenia increased by walking (ninth day).
• Sensation as if a seminal emission were in danger of taking place, with absence of any lascivious thought or fancy (eighth day).
• Pain in right testicle, with coldness (fourteenth day).
• Towards 10 A.M., a seminal emission, which seems as if it passed "like a lump;" feeling as if a lump had passed one (ninth day).
• Remain up very late, retire, and have an emission of semen, followed by an incisive and very great urgent pain, first in one and then in the other testicle; passed the time in the evening in prayer, with partial relief (eighth day).

CHEST

• Thorax increased by drawing deep inspiration (third day).
• A considerable drawing sensation or pain was felt over left collar-bone (immediately); after a little while it returns, accompanied with pressure and weight over that quarter of the chest.
• Pain in chest, right side, just below the axilla and shoulder (after three hours).
• Drawing pain in right pectoral muscles, in the direction and at tendon of pectoralis minor and at coracoid process (eighth day).

HEART AND PULSE

• Feel the effect of muscular exertion of the heart (eighth day). [60.]
• Paralyzed feeling in heart (9.50 P.M.), (ninth day).
• Feel pain at heart after retiring (seventh day).
• Pain at heart after exertion, followed by shortness of breath, relieved after taking a full inspiration (nineteenth day).
• Momentary pain at heart (second day).
• Afternoon, short sharp pain through the heart (second day).
• Thrusting pain at heart, followed by sighing respiration (second day).

NECK AND BACK

• Pain in neck, with perspiration on slight exertion (fifth day).
• Pain felt, especially on posterior cervical muscles (fifth day).
• Tenderness of the cervical muscles (third day).
• Lameness of right shoulder-blade, lower portion, dorsum, running to side (third day). [70.]
• Pain in back, region of kidneys (third day).

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Pain in right arm (sixth day).
• Severe pain in right arm, in writing (seventh day).
• Pain along course of nerves on inner side of right arm (eighth day).
• Shoulder.
• Pain with coldness toward the shoulder, in a cold room (ninth day).
• Lameness (very bad) of the right shoulder, constant for most of the day; feel as if a heavy load had been carried on it, which had produced a bruised chest (third day).
• Pain in right shoulder (eighth day).
• Feeling as if the shoulders were sprained by exertion of the muscles (eighth day).
• Pinch in left deltoid muscle.
• Elbow.
• Heaviness of the left arm at the elbow, a kind of tired feeling. [80.]
• Pain (sharp) in right elbow (fifth day).
• At evening, pain in right elbow, gnawing pain (fifth day).
• Wrist.
• Pain in right wrist (fifth day).
• Hand.
• Pain in fifth metacarpal bone of right hand, with aching toward wrist, extended to elbow (ninth day).
• Fingers.
• Pain in left little finger (second day).

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Pain in right lower extremity, near knee (eighth day).
• After kneeling, numbness of right extremities, from the knee down (tenth day).
• Pain in the dorsum and inner side of right foot, drawing in character; feels as if a horse had stepped on it (eighth day).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Voluptuous feeling (ninth day).
• Faint feeling, with all the time much saliva in the mouth; (this has occurred before during seasons of great despondency, to which I have been subject), (fifth day). [90.]
• Feel badly, with dwindling of genital organs (sixteenth day).
• Feel like one recovering from a cold (cephalic catarrh), (second day).
• Painful feeling in bones, as if a snowstorm were coming (am very sensitive to such influences during the winter months), (third day).
• Its more potent action is in affecting the nerves and muscular organs on the right side of the body.

SKIN

• Pustule on forehead, left side (second day).
• Pustule on right upper lip, angle of the mouth, on parts covered by beard (fifth day).
• Very sore spot in beard just below left angle of mouth (fifth day).
• Burning-itching of the ala nasi.
• Itching of the surface of the chin covered by the beard, also the upper lip in beard.
• Itching very severe on sole and sides of right foot, mostly toward the heel (eighth day).

FEVER. [100.]

• Sensitiveness to cold (third day).
• Feel chilly easily (second day).
• Very sensitive to cold in chest (sixteenth day).
• Cold feeling at side of neck, below ears (second day).
• Perspire easily (fourth day).

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), When hawking mucus, felt dizzy; on waking, face yellow, etc.
• ( After exertion ), Pain at heart.
• ( On writing ), Pain in arm.
• Amelioration.
• ( Full inspiration ), Pain at heart.
• ( Prayer ), Pain in testicle.