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Boericke

Opuntia Ficus

Prickly Pear (OPUNTIA-FICUS INDICA)

Source: Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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.