Homœopathic Materia Medica

Opuntia Ficus opun-f.

Boericke, 9th edition (1927)In every bookSave

Common name

Prickly Pear (OPUNTIA-FICUS INDICA)

General

Diarrhœa, with nausea. Feels as if bowels were settled down in lower abdomen. Sick feeling in lower third of abdomen. Enteroptosis with loose and frequent evacuations.

Relationship

Compare; Chaparra amargosa (which Mexican physicians laud as a specific in chronic diarrhœa). Ricinus communis (diarrhœa, dysentery, obstinate chronic diarrhœa).

Dose

Second attenuation.