OPUNTIA VULGARISLiquid

Opuntia vulgaris is a dynamic homoeopathic medicine derived from the prickly pear cactus sourced from Cactaceæ family, known for its effects on the gastrointestinal tract, male reproductive system, and nervous and circulatory systems. It is particularly useful in conditions involving nausea, diarrhœa, priapism, spleen and heart pain, and mental disturbances. The medicine addresses sharp, stitching, and pressing pains, often in linear or radiating patterns, with general prostration and peculiar mood swings marked by rage and religious fixations.

Common Name
English: Prickly Pear

SBL’s Opuntia vulgaris can be helpful in the following conditions:

Gastrointestinal System

• Opuntia vulgaris helps with persistent nausea, extending from the stomach to the bowels, often alternating or associated with heaviness and cramping.
• Poor appetite, especially in the morning; skipping meals due to unease.
• Sensation as if diarrhœa would set in, with urgent desire and loose stools, particularly at 4 p.m.
• Bloated abdomen, acrid sensations in the lower abdomen as though its contents had settled or excoriated tissues.
• Pain through spleen and heart area; stool sometimes soft but difficult, with drug-like odor.

Sexual Excitation

• Aids in priapism with lascivious thoughts.
• Drawing pain in right testicle; atrophied appearance of genitals.
• Involuntary emissions and persistent sexual excitation.

Mental and Emotional Turmoil

• Assists aberrant mental states, with unawareness of abnormal behavior.
• Blasphemous thoughts, alternating between prayers and swearing.
• Prone to sudden rage, especially when plans are thwarted.
• Petulant, irritable, and vindictive nature; confusion in writing, such as omitting or transposing letters.

Cardiovascular and Chest Discomfort

• Helps with sticking pains through the heart; dull oppression relieved by a deep breath.
• Cold shuddering sensations across the chest; respiration labored and heaving.

Urinary Irritation

• Increased frequency or quantity of urine; sometimes bloody.
• Urgent need to urinate; cannot hold back.

Extremities Pain

• Numbness, tingling, and pricking after kneeling or resting on limbs.
• Pains in the left leg muscles, head of fibula, and right little toe.
• Pain in left arm below the elbow (palmar side) and in metacarpal bones of the left hand.

Headache & Epistaxis

• Sensation as if head is transfixed by a lance; tensive feeling in the brain.
• Pale face; bleeding from the left nostril on picking.

Burning of Eyelids

• Manages pain in right eyeball; burning and smarting along eyelid margins with tightness at lash line.
• Pimples and eruptions around neck and behind left ear, bleeding easily.

Sore Throat

• Assists sore throat in the afternoon; sensation of choking or pinching at the top of the larynx.
• Salivation, sensitivity of teeth; tea tastes insipid.
• Bites inside of right cheek while chewing.

Neck and Spinal Pain

• Aids in aching pain in muscles of neck, shifting from left to right, especially under ears.

Lascivious Dreams

• Dreams of women during the night.

General Weakness

• Marked prostration and coldness.
• Cold chills, especially in cold rooms; cold feet and body.