Cereus serpentinus
Selenicereus serpentinus (syn. Nyctocereus serpentinus) · Plant · Cactaceae
Cereus serpentinus suits persons with sudden fits of ungovernable rage and mental irritability. There is marked sensitivity to cold and sexual organ complaints alongside the emotional disturbances.
Key symptoms
- Fits of sudden ungovernable rage, inclined to swear
- Anger at trifles with mental irritability
- Tensive pain in head and brain with paralyzed feeling
- Voluptuous feeling with dwindling of sexual organs
- Epistaxis
- Enuresis
- Dizzy in morning with mucus in throat
- Makes mistakes reading or writing
Worse (aggravation)
- Exposure to cold
N. O. Cactaceæ. Tincture of stems.
Clinical
Anger, fits of. Enuresis. Epistaxis. Heart, pains in. Impotence.
Characteristics
The heart was less prominently affected by Cer. serp. than by the other Cacti; but pains in head and a paralysed feeling were experienced. A voluptuous feeling; dwindling of sexual organs; mental irritations were prominent. < On exposure to cold, to which there is great sensitiveness. J. H. Fitch proved Cer. s., as well as Cer. b. Kunze also proved Cer. s.
Relations
Compare:─Cact. g., Cereus bon., Coni.; Pso. (sensitiveness to cold). Anac. (inclined to swear).
1. Mind
Angry at trifles.─Fits of sudden ungovernable rage.─Inclined to swear.─Prays all night.─Makes mistakes, reading or writing.
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