Materia Medica by Kent (cact)Constrictions, contractions and
congestions run through Cactus. Determination of blood to the
head, and coldness of the extremities (CALC). Or determination
of blood to an organ, the chest, or the heart. There is never an
equal circulation of blood in the body; it is spasmodic and
irregular. Disturbed by contractions of circular fibres
everywhere. When this comes in places where it can be felt, and
realized by the senses, it is felt as contractions, as if caged
in wires, and this gives us the key to Cactus. Where
contractions cannot be felt, where there is no sense of feeling,
we know that it goes on as a spasmodic condition of circular
fibres; but these contractions that are felt are more upon the
surface of the body, and in organs having circular fibers— tubes
and canals. They constrict, and this constriction is felt like a
spasm. It has a sensation of tightness and constriction about
the head, about the chest, about the attachments of the
diaphragm, all over the abdomen. Contra