Cactaceae
Cactaecea: belonging to the Caryophyllales
Genera: 87.
Species: > 2000.
Botany: stem is spherical (sphere, disk or column like) green and not hardened into wood; branches are like warts or spines or thorns; leaves are bristles, suppressed; growth is slow, in the form of continuous, watery swelling in mucilage, derivated from cellulose instead of wood; flowers burst out, abruptly, in abundance, often red in colour, with strong scent, once in so many years, short lived, lasting a few hours; fruit edible, watery, spherical congestion; wax on the surface.
Chemistry: malic acid, tartaric acid, oxalic acid, citric acid.
Sources: reference Works, W.Pelikan.
Mind
Constriction
Constriction is the strongest sensation. It’s the feeling of being restricted, limited, compressed, squeezed, condensed, narrowed and shriveled. They have the feeling that there’s not enough space for them. And they long for the opposite in the form of space, open air, free room.
Company
They have this feeling especially in company. They long for company, warmth and being together. But on the other hand they fear company out of fear of not being understood, not being heard and misused. Then they retire, become silent and don’t want to have contact at all anymore. But inside the emotions are still lively, but held in, compressed, restricted. They can even become quite irritable, spiky when people try to make contact with them in that state. Then they feel too vulnerable to open themselves. They have the feeling that they will get lost when they open themselves.
Love
Very important is the desire for love. They want to love people and want to be loved. Their love has a universal character, can become religious and mystic. But it can also be just very romantic and tender. They have an aversion to aggression and rudeness. They are often very emotional and even ecstatic once they open themselves.
Religious
They can be very religious. They feel love as mystic and spiritual. It brings them in contact with the spirits of nature and the Gods. This can be expressed in meditation, praying and philosophy.
Sexual
The desire for contact can also be expressed in sexuality. There they can open themselves completely in a desire to express the perfect love. Or they can withdraw, closing themselves completely as in vaginismus.
Fear: narrow places, claustrophobia, crowds, cities, rudeness, aggression, disease, heart.
Desire: nature, softness.
Dissociation syndrome: forgetful, mistakes.
Mood: emotional, ecstacy, withdrawn, silent.
Company: desire company, very open, sympathetic; aversion company.
Music: >.
General
Sensation: constriction (3), compressed, contraction, shrunken, clutched, oppressed, bound, tight, grasped, grabbed, cramp, band, belt, strings, caged in wires, plug; the constriction is violent, very painful; heart (3), sphincters, bronchi, stomach, intestines, rectum, vagina.
Weather: -> open air (3), -> sun, <- sun.
Food: -> and <- food.
Menses: cramps, constriction uterus.
Motion: < motion.
Body
Emaciation.
Ailments from limitations, plasters (gipskorset).
Lung: asthma, cramp in air passages.
Heart: pain, constriction, oppression; tamponade; myocarditis, pericarditis, stenocardy; pulse fast, slow, hard; cyanosis.
Stomach: cramp < food.
Vagina: vaginismus.
Rectum: cramp, constriction.
DD
Silicaseries: the theme of love and relationships is the same. The Cactaceae have the typical restiction, religious aspect of love.
Nitrogenium: The theme of restriction and expansion is the same. But here it’s more related to body and enjoyment instead of to relations as in the Cactaceae. Phenethylamines are nitrogen compounds also found in the Cactaceae, like Anhalonium.
Sulphurs: has the love problems also and the philosophical aspects, but not the theme of restriction.
Euphorbiaceae: same feeling of being bound, limited, restricted; here due to ties in the Cactaceae due to harsh surroundings.