Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
663.14.03
663.14.03 Opuntia ficus-indica, Opuntia vulgaris
Names: Cactus Opuntia, Opuntia alba spina.
English: Prickly Pear.
Source: Burdick, Fitch.
Mind
Desire to be at prayer.
Desire to tidy up.
Involuntary blasphemous mood.
Petulance: anger at near relatives.
Swearing, < disappointment of plans: cannot get over injuries done by friends.
Mental exhaustion, weak memory, foreign names, for what has read.
Confusion, dull.
Disgust about themselves, their physical symptoms, the world.
Dream: women.
General
Sensation: sticking, pricking, numb, tension.
Weather: < cold.
Sweat: hands and feet, < physical and mental exertion.
Desire: sweets; bulimia and anorexia.
Time: < 5 pm.
Sleep: sleepless.
Body
Head: pain, frontal.
Eyes: pain burning, smarting, islets; contraction in eyelashes.
Stomach: burning, cramping pain; nausea extending to bowels, + sensation of diarrhoea.
Abdomen: bowels have settled in lower abdomen; diarrhoea; stool loose, frequent, dark, slimy, excoriating, exhausting; spleen pains.
Male: priapism; prostatism.
Urinary: urine bloody; urination frequent; burning pain, worse urination.
Back: pain, lumbar.