{"id":16104,"remedy_name":"Cereus Bonplandii","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Night","keynote_indications":"Cereus bonplandii is a variety of Cactus grandifloras. The principal symptoms of Cere -b. \nare in connection with the heart (Cact.). \nCere-b. was proved by John H. Fitch in substantial doses. The prover lost 7.5 pounds in weight. He felt weighed \ndown by an \nincubus. When mental symptoms subsided, bodily symptoms increased and vice versa. Could not bear contact \nof clothes, felt better on undressing. \nFitch who regarded Cere-b. as an \u201canti- psoric of remarkable pow\u00e9r\u201d cured with it a case of eczema of both \nhands extending up to elbows. Deposits in urine. Dropsy of cardiac and kidney origin. Left intercostal neuralgia. \nAnterior crural neuralgia. \nFitch cured two cases of insanity, one in a young woman, gloomy, restless inclined to curse, swear and throw \nthings at persons, if resisted. The other case was in a married women who had spiritual delusions that she had \ncommitted the unpardonable sin, etc. This came on originally after confinement. \nMarked symptoms included a desire to be at work, doing something useful. Pains through globe of eyes and \norbit. Pain through heart in left great pectoral muscle, left side of chest. Expanding sensation in chest followed \nby sudden collapse. The effect on the nervous system passed off in four or five days.  \nPains have a tendency to spread to other parts. Most appear on left side. \u201cItching in right popliteal space\u201d \nlasted eight or nine years after the proving. \u201cItching with roughness of the skin like eczema above left knee \nanteriorly.\u201d \u201cItching with eruption like herpes below left scapula remained permanent.\u201d","modalities":"Better undressing. Worse at night. Worse from pressure of clothing.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Gloomy and restless. Great desire to work and to be doing something useful. Inclination to curse and \nswear (Anae., Nit- ac.). Inclination to throw things (Staph.) at persons if resisted. Loathing of life before menses. \nDelusion is under a powerful influence. Mistakes in time. Praying. Gloomy and restless. Great desire to work and to be doing something useful. Inclination to curse and \nswear (Anae., Nit- ac.). Inclination to throw things (Staph.) at persons if resisted. Loathing of life before menses. \nDelusion is under a powerful influence. Mistakes in time. Praying.","Head":"Occipital headache and pain through the globe of the eyes and orbits (Cedr., Onos.). Pain across the \nbrain from left to right. Pain along right malar bone running to temple. Occipital headache and pain through the globe of the eyes and orbits (Cedr., Onos.). Pain across the \nbrain from left to right. Pain along right malar bone running to temple.","Chest":"Pain in chest through heart with pain running toward spleen. Pain in left pectoral muscle and cartilages \nof left lower ribs. Difficult, sighing respiration, as from some compression of chest. Convulsive pains at the heart, feels as if transfixed. Hypertrophy of heart. Sensation of a great weight \non heart and pricking pain.","Extremities":"Pain in neck, back, shoulders, down arms, hands and fingers. Pain in knees and joints of lower limbs.","Skin":"Itching of skin (Dolich., Sulph.). \nCOMMENTS - Symptoms from the proving including a miserable feeling on retiring. Throws himself on bed \nwithout undressing. Great yawning fit. Feels not pleasant. Feels half sick. Very dull in the morning. Feels very \nbadly, has an ill -defined bad feeling in the evening and at night. Easily chilled in a room, better on disrobing \nfor bed. \nAlternations of symptoms of mind and bodily pains. When pains of the body are noticed, symptoms affecting \nthe mind are suspended. The most prominent symptoms are the catarrhal and gastric ones, while those \naffecting the chest, heart, eyes, brain and nerves are more slowly developed and are the ones that persist. \nRemarkable anti-psoric. Some skin symptoms developed by it persisted off and on for year. Itching of the right \npopliteal space. Itching with roughness of the skin like eczema, above the left knee anterior ly. Itching with an \neruption resembling herpes zoster below the left scapula. Sleeplessness.  \nThe provings point in the direction of kidney troubles and deposits in the urine. Dropsy of heart and kidney \norigin. Intercostal neuralgia, worse on left side. Anterior crural neuralgia. Rheumatism. Eczema of both hands, \nextending to elbows. Albuminuria with great edema."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}