Cactus grandiflorus
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Cactus grandiflora
Night-blooming Cereus. Cactaceae.
Sanguineous congestions in persons of plethoric habit (Acon.) ; often resulting in haemorrhage ; sanguineous apoplexy.
Fear of death; believes the disease incurable (Ars.).
Haemorrhage : from nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, bladder (Grot., Mill., Phos.).
Headache, pressing like a heavy weight on vertex (> by pressure, Meny.) ; climacteric (Glon., Lach.).
Pleadache and neuralgia ; congestive, periodic, rightsided ; severe, throbbing, pulsating pain.
Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter and tighter.
Constriction: of throat, chest, heart, bladder, rectum, uterus, vagina; often caused or brought on by the slightest contact.
Oppression of chest, as from a great weight; as if an iron band prevented normal motion.
Sensation of a cord tightly tied around lower part of chest, marking attachment of diaphragm.
Heart feels as if clasped and unclasped rapidly by an iron hand; as if bound, 'diad no room to beat.”
Pains everywhere; darting, springing like chain lightning, and ending with a sharp, vise-like grip, only to be again renewed.
Menstrual flow ceases when lying down (Bov., Caust. ) .
Palpitation: day and night; worse when walking and lying on left side (Lach. ) ; at approach of menses.
Fever paroxysm returns at ii a. m. and ii p. m.
Lach., Tab.
What the other books say about Cactus grandiflorus
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Cactus grandiflorus in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Cactus grandiflorus in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Cactus grandiflorus in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Cactus grandiflorus — Keynotes, pp. 68–69. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/cactus-grandiflorus. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.