Cereus bonplandii
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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Mind
Great desire to work and to be doing something useful.
General
Night-blooming Cereus
Head
Occipital headache and pain through the globe of the eyes and orbits (Cedron; Onos). Pain across the brain from left to right. Pain along right malar bone running to temple.
Chest
Convulsive pains at the heart; feels as if transfixed. Pain in chest through heart, with pain running toward spleen. Pain in left pectoral muscle and cartilages of left lower ribs. Sensation of a great weight on heart, and pricking pain. Hypertrophy of heart. Difficult, sighing respiration, as from some compression of chest.
Extremities
Pain in neck, back, shoulders, down arms, hands and fingers. Pain in knees and joints of lower extremities.
Skin
Itching of skin (Dolich; Sulph).
Relationships
Compare: Cactus; Spigel; Kalmia; Cereus serpentinus (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).
Dose
Third to sixth attenuation.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Cereus bonplandii — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/cereus-bonplandii. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.