Cactus Grandiflorus

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General Information

Cactus Grandiflorus, also known as large-flowered cactus or Queen of the Night, is a climbing cactus with large white flowers. Indigenous to the Antilles, Mexico and Central America it has been used as a health tonic for centuries by those living with it.

Cactus Grandiflorus entered the homeopathic materia medica in the 1800s after it was found in homeopathic potencies to help painful constrictions and spasms from restricted blood flow, especially of the heart. The pain, whether of the heart or elsewhere is often severe and described as band-like, as if “grabbed by an iron fist”, like digging wire.

Common Uses

When the remedy matches the symptom profile, Cactus Grandiflorus has the ability to treat conditions such as angina, arrhythmia, headache, colic, coughing or vomiting of blood, myocardial infarct, neuralgia, valvular disease.

 

From the Old Masters

 

MIND AND DISPOSITION

  • Sadness and bad humor; taciturnity, melancholy, hypochondriasis.                                                                            
  • Taciturn, unwilling to speak a word, or to answer.
  • Cries know not why; consolation aggravates.
  • Unconquerable sadness.
  • Fear of death; he believes his disease incurable.
  • Hypochondriacal.

 

GENERALITIES

  • General weakness and prostration of strength.
  • A sensation of constriction in the throat; chest; heart; bladder; rectum.
  • Hemorrhages, nose; lungs; rectum; stomach.
  • The intermittent fever attacks recur at the same hour.
  • Aggravation in the forenoon (diarrhea).
  • At night (palpitation of the heart; a headache).
  • When lying on the left side (palpitation of the heart).
  • After eating 
  • From noise and light (a headache).
  • Constriction of heart, chest, bladder, rectum, uterus, vagina, etc.
  • Hemorrhages in connection with heart troubles; nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, bladder.
  • Palpitation; day or night; worse when walking and lying on left side, the approach of menses.
  • Fear of death; believes the disease incurable
  • The whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter and tighter.

 

TISSUES

  • Organic diseases of the heart.
  • Dropsical affections.
  • Constriction of the heart, as if an iron band prevented its normal movement; < lying on left side.

 

Where do I find it?

Cactus Grandiflorus is available here as a single remedy in a variety of strengths (potency).

Dosage Instructions

Take 3 Pellets of the remedy every 10 minutes to two hours (10 minutes for intense symptoms, 2 hours for milder ones). Once an improvement is noticed, stop dosing and repeat the remedy only if symptoms return. If there is no improvement at all by three doses, choose a different remedy or seek professional guidance.

A Few Words

While the above self-limiting, acute complaints are suitable for home treatment with Cactus Grandiflorus, see your healthcare provider if your symptoms worsen or fail to improve. Cactus Grandiflorus is also useful for a range of chronic or persistent complaints not listed; these are best managed by a qualified homeopath for good results.