Know Your Remedies: Cactus grandiflorus (Cact.)
General Information: A significant remedy for severe constricting, contracting or congestive pains, especially in the heart, bladder, rectum, vagina, or uterus. These pains are triggered or worsened by the slightest touch. This remedy may also be indicated when a trio of complaints are present – indigestion, haemorrhoids and heart problems. There may tingling and crawling down the left arm and the hand may swell. The person may also have regular dreams of falling. Symptoms often worsen at 10-11pm.
Mental-emotional Problems: Sadness with heart disease.
Head Problems: Facial pains with throbbing in the temples – especially the right temple.
Chest Problems: Severe constricting pains in chest or diaphragm – “as if grabbed by an iron fist”.
May feel as if caged in wire or by a tight metal band. The heart may feel as if it is bound in an iron band or as though it is being clutched and released.
Respiratory Problems: Constrictive asthma with heart disease.
Urinary Problems:Renal colic with bloody or clotted urine.
Female and Menstrual Problems:Vaginismus – constriction of the vagina making intercourse difficult or impossible.
Severe constricting menstrual pain with the passing of clots.
