Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

and tighter upon the skull. There can be no doubt about there being a marked cerebral congestion withall these symptoms.The eyes show it; the face shows it; the heat of the head shows it. It has been recommended forthreatened apoplexy, when the congestion is so violent, and the face is flushed and purple, or very red,and the pulsation is felt in the brain and all over.This remedy has the violent congestion of the head found in Bell., but with Bell. we have theintense heat of the body, fever heat which is not found in Cactus. In Cactus it is only a moderate fever.The heat is in the upper part of the body, in the head and neck. Fullness of the neck; bloating of theneck. Feels as if the head would expand from the pressure of blood in the head, but without any greatrise of temperature. It has fever, but it has these without fever. But with Bell. when you have thesepulsations the patient is intensely hot, and he burns all over. There is some burning in Cactus, but not tobe compared with Bell. Heat in the head from mental exertion is a strong symptom of Cactus. Thissymptom is found in persons who are trying to break off from coffee and Cactus is often the remedy.The patient has choking about the neck, as from a tight collar. Constriction; tension of the skinand muscles everywhere.Choking about the neck with constriction of the heart. Choking about the neck in hysteria;globus hystericus; a lump or ball coming up into the throat, and she constantly swallows and chokes,and she goes into cramps with great numbness of the left arm.Cramping especially of the left arm. Complete numbness of the left arm along with cardiacconditions in the history of rheumatism and in hysteria. The history of rheumatism goes well to fill upthe Cactus case. The face is flushed bright red, becoming blue. With weakness of the heart it is blue;blue lips.We need Cactus for a patient that has constriction about the neck, with congested head, blueface, and lips mottled, numbness of the left hand, constriction of the heart. The left hand mysteriouslyweak, or is numb, tingling and crawling, like a formication.Another thing running all through the remedy is its hemorrhages. That is not surprising. Anymedicine that has such cardiac conditions and such vascular conditions will at times have more or lessrelaxation of blood vessels, and it would be quite in the nature of it to bleed. It has hemorrhages of twokinds. Hemorrhage from vascular relaxation accompanying cardiac and vascular conditions, andhemorrhage from violent congestion of a part. The rush of blood to the head is of such violence in themoderately plethoric patient that he bleeds from the nose, and hawks blood from the throat. Congestionof the chest so violent that he expectorates blood from the chest. Bleeding from congestion, rather thanfrom tuberculosis. Congestion of the uterus with bleeding. Congestion of the bladder and kidneys, withblood in the urine, with discharges of blood from violent congestion. In old cardiac conditions, whererelaxation is present in most marked degree, hemorrhage from relaxation.Strong pulsations felt in strange places, in the stomach, and in the bowels; sometimes in theextremities, the feet and hands, as well as in the head. Throbbing all over. Around the attachment of thediaphragm feeling as if a cord was tied tighter and tighter, round the lower part of the chest This is astrange symptom; it clutches him so tightly around the waist line that it takes his breath away, and hestruggles for breath, and wants to do something. It clutches him tighter and tighter. Cactus producescongestion of the bowels; inflammation of the uterus.Gastric inflammation and with it the clutchings.It is a remedy for the cure of hemorrhoids; the relaxation of the great portal system, and thelower veins in the rectum, the hemorrhoidal veins. The veins are in such a state of relaxation thattumors will form, and bleed copiously. Bleeding hemorrhoids.Constriction of the anus. It has a very troublesome constipation; constipation in connection withhemorrhoids. It has a paralytic weakness of the bladder. It has retention of urine. Such a constriction ofthe neck of the bladder that the urine cannot be passed for a long time, and there is retention. In thekidneys such a congestion as favors suppression of the urine. Bloody urine; blood in clots. It is aremedy that favors the formation of clots speedily. The blood that flows clots so rapidly and so denselythat it blocks up the way. Bleeding into the bladder blocks up the way. Bleeding into the vagina causesa clot difficult to expel, and pressing upon the urethra of the female that it is impossible for her to passurine. It is like an immense tampon. And hence it reads, "urination prevented by clots", clots in thevagina, as well as clots in the bladder.Inflammation of the ovaries; inflammation of the uterus. It is a medicine that you will need toknow when a young, plethoric, vigorous woman comes down violently with congestion of the uterus atthe menstrual period, and she screams because of the violent clutching and cramping of the uterus.Before the flow starts, or just at the beginning, there is violent spasm. The circular fibers clutch; andshe describes it accurately as if a tape were tied around that sore and congested uterus. The uterus fills