# Opuntia Vulgaris

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Two kinds of “Prickly pear” have been proved, Opun. vulg. and Opun. alba spina. Burdick 
took one or two deep inhalations of the tincture of the flowers of the former. J. Fitch, who proved many of the 
Cactaceae took ten drops of the tincture of the second potency. 
Opun-v. has a sick feeling in the lower third of the abdomen. Feels as if bowels were settled down in lower 
abdomen. Diarrhea with nausea. Enteroptosis with loose and frequent evacuations. 
COMMENTS - The bulk of the symptoms of the proving are Fitch's, but the most peculiar symptom (which has 
also been verifi ed) is Burdick's, “Nausea extending from stomach down into bowels with sensation as if 
diarrhea would set in.” Also “feeling as if bowels had settled down into lower abdomen.” Fitch had actual 
diarrhea. All the urinary and genital symptoms were his except “bloody urine,” which is an ef fect of Opun-v., 
but not Burdick's. Coldness was observed by both provers. The peculiar mental symptoms recalling the 
swearing tendency of Anae., are Fitch's. Sticking and pricking pains predominate, also numbness and tension.

## Symptoms by System