LATIN: Carnegiea gigantea (Saguaro Cactus)

GOOD FOR: The Protector essence. Imbues you with a sense of taking care of yourself; able to express your skills and talents.

DID YOU KNOW:

To say the least, you are a mental giant. You think a lot--maybe too much. Your mind is sharp, curious, quick to jump and make up your mind about something. You do very well in academic surroundings. And you're good at memorizing things. Able to learn in classroom situations, you are a "book learner" type. Verbal by nature, you can communicate well in speaking as well as writing. Your world consists of using logic and rationalization. A prove-it-to-me kind of person.

THE HEALTHY YOU:

You're a gut-hunch kind of person whether you realize it or not. A lot of your decisions are based upon primal instinct which may or may not even tweak you consciously. However, you're a wonderful amalgam of rational mind (left brain) and right brain (instincts and intuition) IF you want to be. If you are truly in balance, you become very "whole-brained", utilizing both hemispheres of your brain to a very high degree. Not only can you know the answer to an Algebra problem before doing the math on it, you can also do the math to prove how you know the answer! That's a pretty neat trick!

THE UNHEALTHY YOU:

Insomnia can dog your heels because you are the one that gets the "gerbil running on the wheel" at night, and you can't shut off your thoughts. They just keep rolling along even though you'd like some sleep! You can get dogged, stuck and very stiff-necked about your belief system. Worse, you will be arrogant about it and you're right and the rest of the world is wrong. It's "my way or no way...." kind of blinders-on attitude. The old saying: You are cut off from the neck down, implies that you allow your logic and rational to rule you and you suppress your emotions--not a good thing in the long run!

ANECDOTAL CASES:

CASE #1
DC
21 Oct 2000
The essence I have been taking in the past few days is Saguaro Cactus. With it, I have been experiencing a big charge of energy in my front solar plexus chakra area - if I "look" it is like I have a big golden yellow ball of energy there, which is helping me to do what I need to do in a way that feels more effective and graceful, whereas before I was easily distracted and ran out of steam. And when I went to sleep, I slept well and woke up refreshed by the sleep, which is unusual for me.

CASE #2
SS
3.25.2002
My mother had planted seeds in a terrarium about 15 years before, loving the desert and cactus. A taurus lady doctor child psychiatrist with lots of aries, I thought it was all her fire that loved the desert... When she was dying the plant which grew more like a christmas cactus rather than up and out like a tree, bloomed for the first time and probably only time.... she was thrilled to consider the synchronicity of it's coincidence to her eminent passing, like a little child clapped her hands when she connected it's blooming to her personal life rhythms.

Tornados and freak storms of snow hit the day of her funeral, she was angry when she died and said she wasn't coming back. She thought of the cactus as survivors like herself.

OTHER:

There is a proving on Carnegia gigantea by Dr. Todd Rowe, MD(H), CCH, DHt. It can be bought at: Desert Institute of Classical Homeopathy, 2001 W Camelback, Suite 150, Phoenix, AZ 85015