====== CANNABIS INDICA ====== {{anchor:s1}}Cannabis Indica. {{anchor:s2}}East Indian Hemp. {{anchor:s3}}Cannabineae. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s5}}Head feels very heavy, loses consciousness and falls.\\ {{anchor:s6}}Every few moments he would lose himself, and wake up, as it were, to those around him.\\ {{anchor:s7}}He forgot his last words and ideas, and spoke in a low tone with a thick voice, as if tired.\\ {{anchor:s8}}He begins a sentence, but cannot finish it, because he forgets what he intends to write or speak.\\ {{anchor:s9}}Inability to recall any thought or event, on account of different thoughts crowding on his brain.\\ {{anchor:s10}}He could not read, partly on account of dreamy spells, and partly because he had not full power of vision.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Very absent-minded.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Constantly theorizing.\\ {{anchor:s13}}His mind is filled with ridiculous speculative ideas.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Exaltation of spirits, with excessive loquacity.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Great exaltation of mind; at times with enthusiastic language.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Exaltation of spirits, with great gayety and disposition to laugh at the merest trifle.\\ {{anchor:s17}}He could not fix his thoughts upon one subject.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Sudden transition from one fantasia, when completed, to another; the general character may remain unchanged; after visions of great sublimity usually follow visions of a quiet, relaxing and recreating nature.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Hallucinations and imaginations innumerable; that he is gradually swelling, his body becoming larger and larger; that some one calls him; that he hears numberless bells ringing most sweetly; imagines he hears music; shuts his eyes, and is lost for some time in the most delicious thoughts and dreams.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Exaggeration of duration of time and extent of space; a few seconds seem ages; a few rods an immense distance. {{anchor:s21}}~ Delirium tremens.\\ {{anchor:s22}}It appeared to him that an occurrence which happened quite recently, had taken place long ago, and again that something that had to happen soon, seemed exceedingly tardy in coming.\\ {{anchor:s23}}A sense of having two existences; double consciousness.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Fixed ideas.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Incoherent talking.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Laughs indiscriminately at every word said to him.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Uncontrollable laughter, till the face becomes purple, and back and loins ache.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Full of fun and mischief, and laughs immoderately.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Moaning and crying.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Great apprehension of approaching death.\\ {{anchor:s31}}He was in constant fear he would become insane.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Horror of darkness.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Anguish, accompanied by great oppression, amel. in open air.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Great mental agitation, anxiety, irritability, nervousness. {{anchor:s35}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Nervous; she trembles at least source of agitation. {{anchor:s37}}~ Headache. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s39}}Vertigo on rising, with stunning pain in back part of head, and he falls.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Heavy pressure on brain, forcing him to stoop.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Dullness of head. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s43}}Assists brain to labor after a debauch.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Violent shocks pass through brain, on regaining consciousness.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Heavy insurmountable pressure on brain, forcing him to stoop.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Dull drawing pain in forehead, especially over eyes.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Throbbing aching pain in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Jerking in right side of forehead, towards interior and back part of head.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Severe stitch in right temple, gradually changing to pressive pain.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Dull stitching in right temple.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Pain in whole right side of head.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Aching in both temples, most severe in right.\\ {{anchor:s53}}A sensation as of brain boiling over and lifting cranial arch like lid of a teakettle.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Feels as if top of head was opening and shutting, and as if calvarium was being lifted.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Dull, heavy, throbbing pain through head, with a sensation like a heavy blow on back of head and neck.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Heavy weight at back of head, from which pains shoot up sides of head to temples and vertex; pain at midday forces her to cry.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Frequent involuntary shaking of his head.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Headache, accompanied by flatulence, continuing until he can pass wind upward or downward; throbbing of occiput.\\ {{anchor:s59}}(OBS:) Megrim, or sick headache. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Scalp and skin of forehead felt as though tightly stretched over skull.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Crawling in scalp, on top of head.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Soreness of scalp to touch. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Dimness of vision.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Visual clairvoyance.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Sensitiveness of right eye to light.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Letters run together while reading.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Twinkling, trembling and glimmering before eyes.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Eyes are bright and shiny.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Injection of vessels of conjunctiva of both eyes.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Jerking in external corner of eye and eyelid. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s74}}Hearing very acute.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Noise in ears; like water boiling.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Periodical singing in ears during his dreamy spells, ceasing when he came to himself.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Ringing and buzzing in ears.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Throbbing and fullness in both ears.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Aching in both ears. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s81}}Countenance dejected and careworn. {{anchor:s82}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Wearied, exhausted appearance.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Drowsy and stupid look.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Pale face.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Tense feeling in facial muscles.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Skin of face, especially of forehead and chin, feels as if drawn tight. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s89}}Dryness of mouth and lips.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Lips feel as if glued together. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s92}}Gritting and grinding of teeth while sleeping. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s94}}Every article of food is extremely palatable.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Metallic taste.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Stammering and stuttering. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s98}}Dryness of mouth, without thirst.\\ {{anchor:s99}}White, thick, frothy, and sticky saliva. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s101}}Throat is parched, accompanied by intense thirst for cold water. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s104}}Ravenous hunger, not appeased by food.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Desire for and dread of water. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s107}}While eating, his stomach felt swollen and his chest oppressed, as if he would suffocate; was forced to loosen his clothes. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s109}}Pain in cardiac orifice, amel. by pressure.\\ {{anchor:s110}}(In sick:) Sensation of warmth in stomach. {{anchor:s111}}~ Gonorrhea. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s113}}Flatulence on rising in morning. {{anchor:s114}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Flatulent rumbling in bowels, at night.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Abdomen feels swollen; amel. by belching. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s118}}Sensation in anus, as if he was sitting on a ball; as if anus and a part of urethra were filled up by a hard, round body.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Painless yellow diarrhea. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s121}}Constant dull pain in region of right kidney, and in glans penis.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Pain in kidneys when laughing.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Sharp stitches in both kidneys.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Aching in kidneys, keeping him awake at night.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Burning in kidneys Urine: loaded with slimy mucus, after exposure to damp cold; pain in bladder and urethra; profuse, colorless.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Urinates frequently, but in small quantity.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Frequent micturition, with burning pain, in evening.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Has to wait some time before urine flows.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Has to force out last few drops with hand.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Urine dribbles out after stream ceases.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Urging to urinate, with much straining, but cannot pass a drop.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Burning and scalding, or stinging pain in urethra, before, during and after urination. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s134}}Sexual desire excessively increased; satyriasis; priapism.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Erections: while riding, walking, and also while sitting still; not caused by amorous thoughts; violent; painful.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Penis relaxed and shrunken.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Uneasiness, with burning sensation in penis and urethra, accompanied by frequent calls to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Sharp prickings, like needles, in urethra, so severe as to send a thrill to cheeks and hands.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Gonorrhea: unaccompanied by pain; lightheadedness; slight tingling, with inflammation around meatus; slight burning during micturition; discharge yellowish-white and very profuse.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Feeling in urethra as if there was a gonorrheal discharge.\\ {{anchor:s141}}On squeezing glans penis, a white glairy mucus oozes out.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Chordee.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Itching of glans penis. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s145}}Sexual desire increased.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Very profuse menses.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Menses very profuse and painful, dark, but without clots; lasting eighteen days. {{anchor:s148}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Violent uterine colic, with cramps in extremities. {{anchor:s150}}~ Post post-partum hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Spasmodic uterine colic; pains returning like labor-pains; great agitation and sleeplessness. {{anchor:s152}}~ Menorrhagia. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s156}}Threatened miscarriage, with discharge of blood from vagina, in eighth month of pregnancy; burning in making water, with purulent discharge. {{anchor:s157}}~ Gonorrhea. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s160}}Inability to measure compass and volume of voice when speaking. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s162}}It requires great effort to take a deep inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Oppression of chest, with deep, labored breathing, agg. when ascending.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Feels as if suffocating, and has to be fanned. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s166}}Rough cough, with scraping immediately under sternum.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Hard, dry cough. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s169}}Stitches extending from both nipples through chest. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s171}}Palpitation of heart, which awakens from sleep.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Pressing pain in heart, with dyspnea, whole night.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Painful sticking as with prongs of a fork in heart.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Stitches in heart, accompanied by great oppression; the latter amel. by deep breathing.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Pulse slow (as low as 46); rapid (as high as 160). ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s177}}Chin suddenly drawn down to sternum, lasting three or four days, when it relaxed.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Pain across shoulders and spine; must stoop, cannot walk erect.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Pain with drawing through lumbar vertebrae, on standing.\\ {{anchor:s180}}(In sick:) Warmth in spine extending to head.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Backache, agg. mensesl periods, which occur every two weeks, and are scanty. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s183}}Agreeable thrilling through arms and hands.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Coldness of right hand, with stiffness and numbness of right thumb. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s186}}Right limb feels paralyzed when walking.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Weariness in both limbs, almost amounting to paralysis; agg. in left.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Agreeable thrilling in both limbs, from knees down, with a sensation as if a bird's claws were clasping knees.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Is unable to walk up-stairs on account of an almost entire paralysis of limbs, with stiffness and tired aching in both knees.\\ {{anchor:s190}}On attempting to walk, he experienced intensely violent pains, as if he trod on a number of spikes, which penetrated soles and ran upward through limbs to hips; agg. in right limb and accompanied by drawing pains in both calves.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Shooting pains in joints of toes of left foot, agg. in great toe.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Aching and stitching pain in ball of left great toe.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Numb feeling of sole of left foot, then whole foot, increasing to a numbness of whole limb.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Pricking in feet. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s196}}Heaviness of arms and legs.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Paralysis of lower limbs and right arm. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s201}}Rest gives general relief; great desire to lie down in daytime.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Standing: pain, with drawing through lumbar vertebrae.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Walking: cannot walk erect; pain across shoulders; right limb feels paralyzed; is unable to walk up-stairs, or, attempting to walk, violent pains through lower extremities. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s205}}Trembling with mental weakness.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Thoroughly exhausted after a short walk.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Felt so weak that he could scarcely speak, and soon fell into a deep sleep.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Catalepsy.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Exaltation of all powers of mind and body before fit. {{anchor:s210}}~ Epilepsy. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s212}}Desire to sleep, but inability to do so.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Excessive sleepiness; great desire to lie down in daytime.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Felt so weak that he could scarcely speak, and soon fell into a deep sleep.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Starting of limbs while sleeping, which awoke him, when he feared he would have a fit.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Talking during sleep.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Voluptuous dreams, with erections and profuse seminal emissions.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Dreams: of danger, and of perils encountered; of dead bodies; prophetic; vexatious; melancholy.\\ {{anchor:s219}}In daytime, dreams, returning periodically, or dreamy attacks.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Nightmare every night, as soon as he falls asleep. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s222}}Daytime: dreams.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Midday: heavy weight at back of head.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Evening: burning pain; frequent micturition. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s226}}Is not so sensitive to cold as usual.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Damp, cold weather: urine loaded with slimy mucus. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s229}}Loss of animal heat.\\ {{anchor:s230}}General chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Coldness of face, nose and hands, after dinner.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Increased heat of body.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Profuse sticky sweat standing out in drops on his forehead. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s235}}Every two weeks; backache, agg. {{anchor:s236}}Mensesl periods. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s238}}Right: jerking in forehead severe stitch in temple; pain in head; aching in temple; eye, sensitive to light; limb feels paralyzed; on attempting to walk, violent pains in legs.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Left: weariness and paralysis of legs; numb feeling in foot. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s241}}An indescribably "queer" feeling pervades whole body.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Feeling of lightness or buoyancy; as if he was raised from ground and could fly away.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Sensation as if single parts became larger and thicker.\\ {{anchor:s244}}As if brain boiled over; as if top of head was opening and shutting; as if calvarium was being lifted up; as of a heavy blow on back of head and neck; as if he was sitting on a ball; as if suffocated; as if a bird's claws were clasping knees; as if he had on a number of spikes; scalp and skin of forehead felt as though tightly drawn over skull; lips as if glued together; as if anus and part of urethra were filled up by a hard sound body.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Stitch: right temple; sharp, in both kidneys; extending from both nipples through chest; in heart; in ball of left great toe.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Sticking: as with prongs of a fork in heart.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Stinging: pain in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Pricking: in feet; over whole body; sharp like needles in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Shooting: pains in joints of toes of left foot.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Burning: in kidneys; frequent micturition with burning; and scalding in urethra; in penis; of skin.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Jerking: in right side of forehead; in external corner of eye and eyelid.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Drawing: pain in forehead; through lumbar vertebrae; pain in both calves.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Pressive: pain right temple; pain in heart.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Pressure: on rain; on skin excites burning.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Stunning: pain in back part of head.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Aching: pain in ball of left great toe; in both temples; in both ears; in kidneys; tired in both knees.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Soreness: of scalp to touch.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Dull: pain through head; in region of right kidney and in glans penis.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Pain: in whole side of head; in bladder and urethra; across shoulders; in cardiac orifice; in kidneys.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Throbbing: aching pain in forehead; pain through head; in both ears.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Thrilling: agreeable, through arms and hands; in both limbs.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Numbness: of right thumb; of sole of left toe; over whole body; of left foot.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Formication: or itching on various parts.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Crawling: in scalp; on top of head.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Paralyzed sensation: right limb; right arm.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Tense: feeling in facial muscles; skin of face feels as if drawn tight; skin of head.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Heavy: pain through head; arms and legs.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Weight: at back of head.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Warmth: in stomach; in spine, extending to head.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Coldness: of right hand.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Itching: of glans penis Dryness: of mouth and lips. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s273}}Loss of muscular sense; anesthesia.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Pressure: on skin excites burning. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s276}}Pricking over whole body with numbness, often pleasurable.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Formication or itching on various parts.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Tension in skin of head and face.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Is very anemic. {{anchor:s280}}~ Menorrhagia Pressure on skin excites burning.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Anesthesia; while standing is not conscious of touching ground. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s283}}Affects persons of nervous and sanguine temperament most; the bilious nearly as much; the lymphatic but slightly, as with vertigo, nausea, coma, or muscular rigidity.\\ {{anchor:s284}}A woman, aet. 30. {{anchor:s285}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Mother of three children. {{anchor:s287}}~ Menorrhagia. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s289}}Compare Cann. sat., especially Chapter 48, for drug relations, as the comparisons doubtless apply to Cann. ind. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 03, 1881 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r153|Cannabis indica]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r153|Cannabis indica]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1881 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}