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Cereus Serpentinus

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Cereus Serpentinus · Snake Cactus · "The Snake Cactus Heart Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system, the male reproductive organs, and the heart, often manifesting through intense emotional volatility and physical sensations of paralysis.
📖 Clarke writes:
N. O. Cactaceae. Tincture of stems.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Heart less prominently affected than by other Cacti
Pains in head
Paralysed feeling
Voluptuous feeling
Dwindling of sexual organs
Mental irritations prominent
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Great sensitiveness to cold
WORSE On exposure to cold
Provers & History
Proved by J. H. Fitch (Cer. s. and Cer. b.)
Proved by Kunze (Cer. s.)
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Pain after exertion, followed by short breath, relieved by a full breath.
Clarke
Feeling as if the back part of the brain were detached from the front and rotten.
Clarke
Genital organs feel small and dwindled, accompanied by an excited sexual condition.
Clarke
Fits of sudden, ungovernable rage and inclination to swear.
Clarke
Extreme sensitivity to cold exposure.
Clarke
Paralysed feeling in the heart region.
Clarke
Prays all night.
Clarke
Emission followed by cutting pain in the testicles.
Clarke
Dizzy in the morning with mucus in the throat.
Clarke
Urine is pale tea-green or yellowish.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Consider for emotional instability, sudden rage, or obsessive religious behavior.
Angry at trifles.
Fits of sudden ungovernable rage.
Inclined to swear.
Prays all night.
Makes mistakes, reading or writing.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Cold
general sensitivity
Better from
Full breath
short breath
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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