🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Cereus Bonplandii. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
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 eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches. of both
hands extending up to elbows.
Deposits in urine.
DropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues. of cardiac and kidney origin.
Left intercostal neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves..
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 provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces..
“Itching with roughness of the skin like eczema above left knee
anteriorly.” “Itching with eruption like herpes below left scapula remained permanent.”
▲HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
Better undressing.
Worse at night.
Worse from pressure of clothing
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
Compare: (1) Cact., Spig., Kalm. (2) Cere-s. - very irritable with tendency to swear, wild anger
and low morals. Disturbance in speech in writing leaves off the last syllable. Paralyzed feeling. Pains in heart
and dwindling of sexual organs. Emissions, followed by pain in testicles.
▲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.
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.
▲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.
HypertrophyAbnormal enlargement of an organThe increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells. of heart.
Sensation of a great weight
on heart and pricking pain
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
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 catarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. 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.
RheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
Eczema of both hands,
extending to elbows.
Albuminuria with great edemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body.
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📚Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
🩺Medical Verification & Peer Review:
This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.
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