# Cereus Bonplandii

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Cereus bonplandii is a variety of Cactus grandifloras. The principal symptoms of Cere -b. 
are in connection with the heart (Cact.). 
Cere-b. was proved by John H. Fitch in substantial doses. The prover lost 7.5 pounds in weight. He felt weighed 
down by an 
incubus. When mental symptoms subsided, bodily symptoms increased and vice versa. Could not bear contact 
of clothes, felt better on undressing. 
Fitch who regarded Cere-b. as an “anti- psoric of remarkable powér” cured with it a case of eczema of both 
hands extending up to elbows. Deposits in urine. Dropsy of cardiac and kidney origin. Left intercostal neuralgia. 
Anterior crural neuralgia. 
Fitch cured two cases of insanity, one in a young woman, gloomy, restless inclined to curse, swear and throw 
things at persons, if resisted. The other case was in a married women who had spiritual delusions that she had 
committed the unpardonable sin, etc. This came on originally after confinement. 
Marked symptoms included a desire to be at work, doing something useful. Pains through globe of eyes and 
orbit. Pain through heart in left great pectoral muscle, left side of chest. Expanding sensation in chest followed 
by sudden collapse. The effect on the nervous system passed off in four or five days.  
Pains have a tendency to spread to other parts. Most appear on left side. “Itching in right popliteal space” 
lasted eight or nine years after the proving. “Itching with roughness of the skin like eczema above left knee 
anteriorly.” “Itching with eruption like herpes below left scapula remained permanent.”

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
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 
swear (Anae., Nit- ac.).
- Inclination to throw things (Staph.) at persons if resisted.
- Loathing of life before menses.
- Delusion 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 
swear (Anae., Nit- ac.).
- Inclination to throw things (Staph.) at persons if resisted.
- Loathing of life before menses.
- Delusion 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 
brain 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 
brain 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 
of 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 
on 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.).
- COMMENTS - Symptoms from the proving including a miserable feeling on retiring.
- Throws himself on bed 
without undressing.
- Great yawning fit.
- Feels not pleasant.
- Feels half sick.
- Very dull in the morning.
- Feels very 
badly, has an ill -defined bad feeling in the evening and at night.
- Easily chilled in a room, better on disrobing 
for bed.
- Alternations of symptoms of mind and bodily pains.
- When pains of the body are noticed, symptoms affecting 
the mind are suspended.
- The most prominent symptoms are the catarrhal and gastric ones, while those 
affecting the chest, heart, eyes, brain and nerves are more slowly developed and are the ones that persist.
- Remarkable anti-psoric.
- Some skin symptoms developed by it persisted off and on for year.
- Itching of the right 
popliteal space.
- Itching with roughness of the skin like eczema, above the left knee anterior ly.
- Itching with an 
eruption resembling herpes zoster below the left scapula.
- Sleeplessness.
- The provings point in the direction of kidney troubles and deposits in the urine.
- Dropsy of heart and kidney 
origin.
- Intercostal neuralgia, worse on left side.
- Anterior crural neuralgia.
- Rheumatism.
- Eczema of both hands, 
extending to elbows.
- Albuminuria with great edema.