Cannabis Indica

• ▸Excessive loquacity; exuberance of spirits. Time seems too long; seconds seem ages; a few rods an immense distance.
• ▸Constantly theorizing.
• ▸Anxious depression; constant fear of becoming insane.
• ▸Mania, must constantly move.
• ▸Very forgetful; cannot finish sentence.
• ▸Is lost in delicious thought.
• ▸Uncontrollable laughter.
• ▸Delirium tremens.
• ▸Clairvoyance.
• ▸Emotional excitement; rapid change of mood.
• ▸Cannot realize her identity, chronic vertigo as of floating off.

Exaltation of spirit, with excessive loquacity.—Full of fun and mischief, and laughs

immoderately—Hallucinations and imaginations innumerable.—Anguish, accompanied by great

oppression: > in the open air—Constant fear of becoming insane.—Exaggeration of duration of

time and extent of space; seconds seem ages, a few rods an immense distance.—Horror of

darkness.—Fear of approaching death.—Inability to recall any thought or event, on account of

different thoughts crowding on his brain.—Sudden loss of speech; begins a sentence but cannot

finish it—Stammering and stuttering —Exaltation of spirits, with excessive loquacity.—Very

absentminded.—Every few minutes he would lose himself, and then wake up, as it were, to those

• ▸around him.
• ▸—Constantly theorising.
• ▸—Clairvoyance.
• ▸—Delirium tremens; trembling;

hallucinations; tendency to become furious; nausea; unquenchable thirst.—Laughs at merest

trifle-—Sudden loss of memory.

Great desire to lie down in the daytime.—Thoroughly exhausted after a short

walk.—Felt so weak that he could scarcely speak, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

• ▸Feels as if top of head were opening and shutting and as if calvarium were being lifted.
• ▸Shocks through brain (Aloe; Coca).
• ▸Uraemic headache.
• ▸Throbbing and weight at occiput.
• ▸Headache with flatulence.
• ▸Involuntary shaking of head. Migraine attack preceded by unusual excitement with loquacity.

Vertigo on rising, with stunning pain in back part of head.—Sensation as if the room

were falling in pieces about her.—Frequent involuntary shaking of the head.—Heavy pressure on

the brain, forcing him to stoop.—Violent shocks pass through the brain; (noise like a crash or

• ▸explosion during sleep).
• ▸—Dull, drawing pain in forehead, esp.
• ▸over the eyes.
• ▸—Throbbing, aching

pain in forehead.—Jerking in r. side of forehead, toward the interior and back part of head —A

sensation of the brain boiling over and lifting the cranial arch like the lid of a tea-

kettle—Opening and shutting sensation at vertex.—Aching in both temples, most severe in

• ▸r.
• ▸—Dull stitching in the r.
• ▸temple—Pain in the whole r.
• ▸side of the head.
• ▸—Head feels heavy, loses

consciousness and falls —Dull, heavy, throbbing pain, with sensation as from a blow, on back of

head and neck.—Heavy weight at back of head, pains shoot up to temples and vertex; pain at

midday forces her to cry.—Headache accompanied by flatulence, continuing until he can pass

flatulence up or down; throbbing of occiput.—Migraine.

• ▸Fixed.
• ▸Letters run together when reading.
• ▸Clairvoyance.
• ▸Spectral illusions without terror.

• ▸Fixed gaze.
• ▸—Eyes bright and shiny.
• ▸—Visual clairvoyance.
• ▸—Jerking in extreme corner

of the eye and eyelid. —Injection of vessels of conjunctiva of both eyes.—Letters run together

when reading.—Twinkling, trembling, and glimmering before the eyes.

Throbbing, buzzing, and ringing. Noise like boiling water. Extreme sensitiveness to noise.

Hearing very acute.—Aching in both ears.—Throbbing and fulness in both

ears.—Ringing and buzzing in the ears.—Noise in the ears, like boiling water—Periodical singing

in the ears during a dreamy spell, ceasing when he came to himself.

• ▸Expression drowsy and stupid.
• ▸Lips glued together.
• ▸Grinding of teeth in sleep.
• ▸Mouth and lips dry.
• ▸Saliva thick, frothy, and sticky.

Countenance dejected and careworn.—Wearied, exhausted appearance.—Drowsy,

stupid look.—Skin of face, esp. of forehead and chin, feels as if drawn tight.

Lips feel as if glued together.—Gritting and grinding of the teeth while

• ▸sleeping.
• ▸—Dryness of the mouth and lips.
• ▸—White, thick, frothy, and sticky saliva.
• ▸—Every article

of food is extremely palatable-—Stammering and stuttering.

• ▸Increased appetite.
• ▸Pain at cardiac orifice; better, pressure.
• ▸Distention.
• ▸Pyloric spasm.
• ▸Sensation of extreme tension in abdominal vessels-feel distended to bursting.

Ravenous hunger.—Pain in the cardiac orifice, relieved by pressure.—Suffocative

feeling while eating.

Flatulence on rising in morning (with headache); rumbling in bowels at

night.—Abdomen feels swollen; > by belching.

Sensation in anus as if sitting on a ball.

Sensation in the anus as if he were sitting on a ball; as if the anus and part

of the urethra were filled up by a hard, round body.—Painless yellow diarrhcea.

Pain in the kidneys when laughing.—Burning, aching, or sharp stitches in

the kidneys.—A white glairy mucus may be squeezed from the urethra——Burning and scalding, or

stinging pain in the urethra before, during, and after urination.—Urging to urinate, but cannot

• ▸pass a drop.
• ▸—Profuse, colourless urine.
• ▸—Has to wait some time before the urine flows.
• ▸—Has to

force out the last few drops with the hand.—The urine dribbles out after the stream ceases.

• ▸Urine loaded with slimy mucus.
• ▸Must strain; dribbling; has to wait some time before the urine flows.
• ▸Stitches and burning in urethra.
• ▸Dull pain in region of right kidney.

• ▸Menses profuse, dark, painful, without clots.
• ▸Backache during menses.
• ▸Uterine colic, with great nervous agitation and sleeplessness.
• ▸Sterility (Borax).
• ▸Dysmenorrhoea with sexual desire.

Very profuse menstruation; painful, dark but without

clots.—Spasmodic uterine colic, pains returning like labour pains; great agitation and

sleeplessness.—Threatened miscarriage in 8th month; burning on micturition with purulent

discharge.

• ▸After sexual intercourse, backache.
• ▸Oozing of white, glairy mucus from glans.
• ▸Satyriasis.
• ▸Prolonged thrill.
• ▸Chordee.
• ▸Sensation of swelling in perineum or near anus, as if sitting on a ball.

Sexual desire excessively increased.—Satyriasis; priapism.—Erections

not caused by amorous thoughts.—Violent painful erections.—Penis relaxed and

shrunken.—Itching in the glans penis.—Sharp pricking, like needles, in urethra, so severe as to

send a thrill to cheeks and hands.

Humid asthma. Chest oppressed with deep, labored breathing.

Rough cough, with scraping immediately under the sternum.—It

requires a great effort to take a deep inspiration.

Palpitation awakes him. Piercing pain, with great oppression. Pulse very slow (Dig; Kalmia; Apocyn).

Oppression of chest, with deep, laboured breathing.—He feels as if suffocated, and

has to be fanned.—Stitches extending from both nipples through chest.

Palpitation of the heart, awaking from sleep.—Pressing pain in the heart,

with dyspnoea the whole night. Piercing pain in the heart.—Sensation as if drops were falling

from the heart.—Stitches in the heart, accompanied by great oppression; the latter relieved by

deep breathing —Pulse very slow (as low as 46).

Pain across the shoulders and spine; must stoop, cannot walk erect—Chin

suddenly drawn down to sternum, lasting three days.—Warmth in spine extending to

head.—Backache, < during menses, which occur every two weeks and are scanty.

Agreeable thrilling through the arms and hands.—Paralysis of the r.

• ▸arm.
• ▸—Coldness of r.
• ▸hand, with stiffness and numbness of r.
• ▸thumb.

Entire paralysis of the lower extremities ——Weariness in limbs, and stiffness

and aching in knees; almost paralysis ——Agreeable thrilling from the knees down, with a

sensation as if a bird's claws were clasping the knees.—On attempting to walk, intensely violent

pain as if treading on spikes, which penetrated the soles, and ran upward through the limbs to the

hips; worse in r. limb, and accompanied by drawing pains in both calves.—Shooting pains in the

joints of the toes of |. foot; worse in great toe; aching and stitching pain in ball of 1. great toe.

• ▸Pain across shoulders and spine; must stoop; cannot walk erect.
• ▸Thrilling through arms and hands, and from knees down.
• ▸Entire paralysis of the lower extremities.
• ▸Pain in soles and calves; sharp pains in knees and ankles; very exhausted after a short walk.

• ▸Very sleepy, but unable to do so.
• ▸Obstinate and intractable forms of insomnia.
• ▸Catalepsy.
• ▸Dreams of dead bodies; prophetic.
• ▸Nightmare.

Excessive sleepiness; sound sleep, with melancholy dreams.—Starting of the limbs

while sleeping, causing him to awake.—Voluptuous dreams, with erections and profuse seminal

• ▸emissions.
• ▸—Talks during sleep.
• ▸—Gritting teeth during sleep.
• ▸—Dreams prophetic; vexatious; of

dead bodies, of danger, and of perils to be encountered.—Nightmare every night as soon as he

falls asleep.

Loss of animal heat.—General chilliness.—Coldness of the face, nose, and hands after

dinner.—Profuse sticky sweat, standing out in drops on his forehead.

• ▸Catalepsy.
• ▸Chordee.
• ▸Clairvoyance.
• ▸Delirium tremens.
• ▸Delusions.
• ▸Epilepsy.

• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Menorrhagia.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Prostatitis.
• ▸Satyriasis.
• ▸Stammering.

Ureemia. Urinary disorders.

Characteristics—The use of Cannabis ind. in the East as an intoxicant gives the leading note of

its sphere of action. It produces a state of exaltation with sublime visions, delusions, and

hallucinations in great variety. Time seems interminable, space illimitable. Imagines himself in a

room of which the walls gradually close in upon him. Double consciousness. Fixed ideas.

Apprehensive of approaching death; of becoming insane. Great agitation; anxiety; nervousness.

• ▸Horror of darkness.
• ▸Incoherent talking.
• ▸Uncontrollable laughter.
• ▸Inability to fix his thoughts on

• ▸one subject.
• ▸Forgets what he intends to write or speak.
• ▸Can.
• ▸ind.
• ▸produces a sensation of

levitation. Sensation as if in a dream. Vertigo on rising, with stunning pain in back part of head.

(Can. ind. removed for me a vertigo in which the patient felt as if the house were falling in ruins

about her.) Shocks through brain on regaining consciousness. Guided by this symptom, I

removed with this remedy a "noise like a crash or explosion during sleep." Sensation as of brain

boiling over and lifting cranial arch like a lid; opening and shutting sensation. Weight at occiput,

from which pains start up sides of head to temples and vertex. Headache with flatulence; lasts till

flatus can be passed up or down; throbbing of occiput. Scalp sore feeling; crawling on vertex;

sensation as though skin tightly stretched over bones of face. Clairvoyance and clairaudience;

• ▸extreme sensitiveness to noise.
• ▸Grinds teeth whilst asleep.
• ▸Stammering and stuttering.
• ▸There is a

sensation in anus as if sitting on a ball; as if anus and part of urethra were filled by a hard, round

body. The urinary and generative organs are very strongly affected. There is constant dull pain in

region of right kidney. Pains in kidneys when laughing. Urine loaded with slimy mucus after

exposure to damp and cold. Frequent micturition with burning pain, in evening. Dribbling.

Urging and straining, but cannot pass a drop. Burning, scalding, or stinging in urethra before,

during, and after urination. Increased sexual desire, satyriasis, priapism. Erections: while riding,

walking, or sitting still, not caused by amorous thoughts; violent; painful. Gonorrhcea; without

pain; with light-headedness; very profuse yellowish-white discharge. Feeling as if discharge in

• ▸urethra.
• ▸Chordee.
• ▸Very profuse, painful, dark menstruation, but without clots.
• ▸Palpitation,

awakens from sleep. Stitches in heart, with oppression, > deep breathing. Warmth of spine

extending to head. Backache < during catamenia, which occur every two weeks and are scanty.

Paralysis of lower limbs and right arm. Nash relates the case of a lady suffering from cardiac

dropsy, who, when relieved of the latter, suddenly lost the power of speech. In answer to a

question she could begin a sentence, but could not finish it, as she could not remember what she

wished to say. She was very impatient about it; would cry, but could not finish the sentence,

• ▸though she could signify assent if any one did finish it for her.
• ▸Can.
• ▸ind.
• ▸cured rapidly.
• ▸[In one

case of over-dose the observer experienced a modification of this: Absolute forgetfulness of the

thought, speech, or acts of the previous moment; startled by hearing the echo of the last words of

a sentence he has just spoken. Having suggested a walk to a companion and meeting him at the

street door, wondered why they were there. Afterwards he could remember everything. < Lying

down quietly: then thought succeeded thought only to be immediately blotted out: no inclination

• ▸to sleep.
• ▸> Walking about out of doors.
• ▸] Can.
• ▸i.
• ▸, like Bell.
• ▸, has: Wants to sleep but cannot.
• ▸Very

sleepy. During sleep: starting; talking; grinding teeth; nightmare. In paralysis there is tingling of

the affected parts. The sensitiveness to noise is extreme; can hear a whisper in adjoining room

and is irritated thereby. In some subjects a perfect condition of catalepsy is produced.

• ▸Can.
• ▸sat.
• ▸In extreme sensitiveness to noise: Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(to jarring and rumbling of

waggon in street); Coff. (to all sounds); Borax (slightest noise, fall of door latch, rumpling of

• ▸paper, rustling of silk).
• ▸Asar.
• ▸(to scratching of linen or-silk, or even the thought of it).
• ▸Levitation

• ▸(Asar.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Coccul.
• ▸, Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Sticta, Sul.
• ▸, Thu.
• ▸).
• ▸As if in a dream (Ambr.
• ▸, Anac.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸,

• ▸Con.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Med.
• ▸, Rhe.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸, Zn.
• ▸—the sensation of time being interminable

• ▸distinguishes Can.
• ▸1.
• ▸from the others).
• ▸Horror of darkness (Am.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸,

• ▸Phos.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸, Stro.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸).
• ▸Noise like a crash or explosion in head (Alo.
• ▸).

Bellad; Hyoscy; Stram; Laches; Agaric; Anhalon (time sense disordered; time periods enormously overestimated, thus, minutes seem hours, etc).

Tincture and low attenuations.

cannabis sativa

in occiput, with pulsation. Shocks in the brain on regaining consciousness, and on waking from sleep. Stitching pains in temples.

• ▸Tension of scalp.
• ▸Tenderness of scalp.
• ▸Dimness of vision.
• ▸Visual

• ▸clairvoyance.
• ▸I^etters run together.
• ▸Hearing acute.
• ▸Singing and

buzzing in ears ; pulsating. Face pale and sunken. Insane look.

Stupid look. Sickly, expressionless look. Grinding teeth during sleep.

Stammering. Metallic taste. Desire for, and dread of water.

Flatulence, distending abdomen, ameliorated by eructations.

The urinary symptoms are numerous. Inflammation in the kidneys,

• ▸with burning pain.
• ▸Soreness in the kidneys, and dull aching.
• ▸Stitching pains in the kidneys.
• ▸Constant or frequent urination.
• ▸Urine burns

on passing. Burning, stinging in urethra, before, during and after

urination. This remedy has cured many cases of gonorrhoea. It is

useful in the first stage, and cures the symptoms set for Cannabis

sativa. Must wait for urine to start. Urine dribbles after urination,

Much mucus in the urine. It is useful in chordee during gonorrhoea.

The discharge in gonorrhoea is yellow.

Sexual desire increased in both sexes. Erections mechanical and

painful. Menstruation profuse and fluid ; painful ; paroxysmal pains,

like labor pains. Uterine spasms. Threatened abortion, threatened

with gonorrhoea. Menses come every two weeks.

Spasmodic oppression of the chest with suffocation.

• ▸Palpitation during sleep.
• ▸Pressing pain in the heart with suffocation during the whole night.
• ▸Stitching pains in the heart.
• ▸Pulse, slow

or rapid and irregular ; fluttering ; a nervous pulse.

Pain in the back at the menstrual period. Pain across the dorsal

region preventing walking erect.

• ▸Paralytic weakness of the limbs with trembling and thrilling.
• ▸Numbness of limbs and soles.
• ▸Pricking of soles.
• ▸Rest ameliorates, and

motion aggravates. Violent pains through the lower limbs on walking.

Sleepy, but cannot sleep. Starting of limbs during sleep. Dreams

of dead bodies. Dreams prophetic. Nightmare.

Prickling of the skin. Formication and itching all over. The skin

feels drawn tight over the body. Anaesthesia.