SBL Cactus Grandiflorus

• Common names: Night-blooming Cereus

Causes and symptoms for SBL Cactus Grandiflorus 

• Cactus is a chief remedy for congestive headaches which are periodical, threatening and worse on right side. There is a sensation as of a weight on vertex.
• Cactus Grandiflorus also has marked action on heart affections;  sensation of constriction in the heart, as if iron band prevented its normal movement.
• Whole body feels as if caged and each wire is twisted tighter and tighter. Pains are of pricking in nature.
• Dysponea (breathlessness) from least exertion. Pulse is quick, throbbing, tense and hard. Pains go round to axilla, back and scapula of the left side.
• Worse by walking, at night and by lying on left side. Better after sleep, rest and in open and fresh air. Cactus favors the dissolving  of clots speedily.
• Acts on circular muscular fibers, hence constrictions.
• Characteristic constrictions as of an iron band, sensation found in various places, esophagus, bladder, etc.
• Haemorrhage, constrictions, periodicity, and spasmodic pains. Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter.
• Congestion; irregular distribution of blood. Favors formation of clots speedily. Great periodicity.
• Cactus Grandiflorus is also indicated in chilliness not relieved by covering.

Mind

• -Melancholy, taciturn, sad, ill-humored. Fear of death.
• – Screams with pain. Anxiety.
• – SADNESS IN HEART DISEASE , Closed person.
• – Anxiety about health, Fear of heart disease worse by morning on waking.
• – Sensitive to light, noise.
• – Difficulty in expressing ideas on writing.

Generalities 

• – CONSTRICTION, violent pain, as if caged in wire.
• – Congestion in painful part.
• – Hemorrhages, with constriction, Internal hemorrhage and thrombosis.
• – Worse 11 A.M. and P.M, LYING, esp.on left side.
• – Better by open air.
• – Periodicity.

Head

• – Headache if obliged to pass dinner hour.
• – Sensation as of a weight on vertex. Right-sided pulsating pain. Congestive headaches, periodical, threatening apoplexy.
• – Blood-vessels to the head distended. Feels as if head were compressed in a vise.
• – Pulsation in ears. Dim sight. Right sided constricting pains, returns at same hour daily.
• – Pain with severe constriction; with sensation of pressure, 11 p.m.
• – Pain is followed by epistaxis (nosebleed) with congestion, flushed red face
• -Worse fasting, noise of talking. Better by pressure.

Nose

• – Profuse bleeding from nose. Fluent coryza.
• – Epistaxis, from congestion

Face 

• – Congestion.
• – Pain worse right, least exertion, wine, noise, light, fasting

Throat

• – Constriction of esophagus, Swallowing difficult, needs to drink when swallowing food
• – Dryness of tongue, as if burnt; needs much liquid to get food down.
• – Suffocative constriction at throat, with full, throbbing carotids in angina pectoris.
• – Constricting sensation, with pulsation of carotids.

Stomach

• Constriction, pulsation, or heaviness in stomach. Vomiting of blood.

Stool

• – Hard, black stools. Diarrhea in morning.
• – Hemorrhoids swollen and painful. Sensation of great weight in anus.
• – Hemorrhage from bowels in malarial fevers and with heart symptoms.

Urine

• – Constriction of neck of bladder, causing retention of urine.
• – Hemorrhage from bladder with Clots of blood in urethra.
• – Constant urination.

Female

• – Constriction in uterine region and ovaries.
• -Dysmenorrhoea; pulsating pain in uterus and ovaries.
• – Menses early, dark, pitch-like; cease on lying down, with heart symptoms.
• – Severe constricting pains in uterus, during menses or labor.
• – Clotted menses; each clot that is passed gives temporary relief from pain.
• – Constricting pains during coition.

Chest

• – Oppressed breathing as from a weight on chest.
• – Constriction in chest, as if bound, hindering respiration.
• – Heart-constriction, as from an iron band.
• – Angina pectoris. Palpitation; pain shooting down left arm.
• – Hemoptysis, with convulsive, spasmodic cough.
• – Inflammation of diaphragm, with great difficulty of breathing.
• – Pain aggravated by lying on left side, exertion, talking loudly.
• – Pain ext. to left arm; with edema of hand and with difficult respiration.
• – Palpitations worse by exertion, from unrequited affections, lying left side; at night from fearful dreams, menses.
• – Oppression as from a weight.

Respiration 

• – Asthmatic, from heart disease.
• – Rattling of mucus.
• – Periodic suffocative spells.

Heart

•  – Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with violent and rapid action.
• – Acts best in the incipiency of cardiac incompetence.
• – Heart weakness of arterio-sclerosis. Tobacco heart.
• – Violent palpitation; worse lying on left side, at approach of menses.
• – Angina pectoris, with suffocation, cold sweat, and ever-present iron band feeling.
• – Pain in apex, shooting down left arm.
• –  Palpitation, with vertigo; dyspnoea, flatulence.
• – Constriction; very acute pains and stitches in heart; pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength.
• – Endocardial murmurs, excessive impulse, increased precordial dullness, enlarged ventricle.
• – Low blood pressure.

Extremities

•  – Edema of hands and feet  with heart problems. Hands soft; feet enlarged.
• – Numbness of left arm. Icy-cold hands. Restless legs.
• – Rheumatic complaints, Worse evening, rest, beginning to move; better continued motion.

Sleep

• – Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body.
• – Frightful dreams with dreams of falling.

Fever

• – Fever every day at same hour.
• – Coldness in back and icy-cold hands.
• – Intermittent; paroxysms about midday (11 am) incomplete in their stages, accompanied by hemorrhages.
• – Coldness predominates; cold sweat, with great anguish.
• – Persistent subnormal temperature.

Modalities 

• Worse, about noon, lying on left side; walking, going upstairs, 11 am and 11 pm. Better, open air.

Side effects of  SBL Cactus Grandiflorus

• There are no such side effects. But every medicine should be taken following the rules as given.
• It is safe to take the medicine even if you are on other mode of medication like allopathy medicines, ayurvedic etc.
• Homeopathic medicines never interfere with the action of other medicines.

Dosage and rules while taking SBL Cactus Grandiflorus

• Take 10 drops in half cup of water three times a day.
• We recommend you to take under physicians guidance.

Precautions while taking SBL Cactus Grandiflorus

• Always keep a gap of 15 minutes before or after meals when you take medicine.
• If pregnant or breastfeeding, ask a homeopathic practitioner before use.
• Avoid eating tobacco or drinking alcohol during the course of medication.