OPUNTIA FICUS

Prickly Pear (OPUNTIA-FICUS INDICA)

Diarrhoea, 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 diarrhoea). Ricinus communis (diarrhoea, dysentery, obstinate chronic diarrhoea).