Common Name: Night-blooming Cereus

can be helpful in the following conditions:

• Acts on the heart with characteristic constriction, as if compressed by an iron band.
• Useful in angina pectoris with suffocative constriction, cold sweat, and shooting pain down the left arm.
• Cactus grandiflorus supports conditions such as endocarditis with mitral insufficiency, arteriosclerosis, and early cardiac incompetence.
• Alleviates palpitations, violent and rapid heart action, low blood pressure, and heart pain associated with tobacco use.
• Supports rapid clot formation in hemorrhagic conditions.

Constrictive Sensations

• Relieves constriction in the esophagus, throat, stomach, bladder, uterus, and chest.
• Helps in conditions with spasmodic and tight sensations, as though the body is caged and wires are being twisted tighter.

Mental Sadness and Emotional

• Manages sadness, melancholy, and taciturnity, fear of death, anxiety, and screaming from pain.

Headache and Neuralgia

• Assists right-sided, pulsating, congestive headaches with distended blood vessels.
• Sensation of compression in the head, as if in a vise.
• Right-sided facial neuralgia with constricting pain recurring at the same time daily.

Nosebleed and Suffocative Throat

• Manages profuse nosebleeds and fluent coryza.
• Relieves suffocative throat constriction and burning dryness of the tongue.
• Full, throbbing carotids in angina pectoris.

Stomach Heaviness and Vomiting

• Alleviates constriction, heaviness, and pulsation in the stomach.
• Vomiting of blood in cardiac conditions.

Bowel and Anorectal Conditions

• Hard, black stools and morning diarrhea.
• Painful, swollen hemorrhoids and sensation of great weight in the anus.

Bladder Trouble and Polyuria

• Constriction of bladder neck causing retention of urine.
• Hemorrhage from bladder and presence of blood clots in the urethra.
• Frequent, constant urination.

Dysmenorrhoea and Vaginismus

• Constriction in the uterine region and ovaries.
• Dysmenorrhea with pulsating uterine and ovarian pain.
• Menses dark, early, pitch-like; stop on lying down when heart symptoms are present.
• Helpful in vaginismus.

Respiratory and Chest Discomfort

• Oppression of breathing, as from a weight on the chest.
• Constriction in the chest hindering respiration.
• Cactus grandiflorus is used in diaphragmatic inflammation and spasmodic cough with hemoptysis.

Extremities Edema

• Edema of hands and feet.
• Numbness of left arm, icy-cold hands, soft hands, and restlessness in the legs.

Sleep Disturbances

• Sleeplessness due to pulsations in various parts of the body.
• Frightful, disturbing dreams.

Fever

• Intermittent fever appearing daily at the same hour, especially around 11 a.m.
• Associated with hemorrhages and incomplete stages.
• Coldness predominates with cold sweat and mental anguish.