Cannabis sativa
Marijuana, hashish, cannabis, Indian hemp, bhang bhanga. · Plant · Cannabaceae
The behavior of those who benefit most from Cannabis ind. alternates between sweet and gentle, and desperate or even paranoid. Typical physical symptoms include a marked increase in appetite and thirst, especially for sweet foods and cold drinks.
Cannabis ind. is prescribed primarily to treat abnormal psychological states, such as confusion, disorientation, loss of memory, overexcitement, unwarranted fears, or paranoia. The remedy is also given for physical conditions such as headaches, urinary-tract infections, and pain in the legs.
Key symptoms
- moods swing between overexcitement and paranoia
- out-of-body experiences
- burning pain in the urethra
- “opening and shutting” sensations in the head
Better (amelioration)
- Must stand up to relieve oppression of breathing and palpitation
Hemp
Seems to affect especially the urinary, sexual, and respiratory organs. It has characteristic sensations as of dropping water. Great fatigue, as from over-exertion; weary after meals. Choking in swallowing; things go down the wrong way. Stuttering. Confusion of thought and speech. Wavering speech. Wavering speech, hasty, incoherent.
Head
Lectophobia. Vertigo; sensation of dropping water on head. Pressure on root of nose.
Eyes
Opacity of cornea. Cataract from nervous disturbances, abuse of alcohol and tobacco; patient feels deeply approaching blindness. Misty sight. Pressure from back of eyes, forward. Gonorrhœal ophthalmia. Eyeballs ache. Scrofulous eye troubles (Sulph; Calc).
Urine
Retained, with obstinate constipation. Painful urging. Micturition in split stream. Stitches in urethra. Inflamed sensation, with soreness to touch. Burning while urinating, extending to bladder. Urine scalding, with spasmodic closure of sphincter. Gonorrhœa, acute stage; urethra very sensitive. Walks with legs apart. Dragging in testicles. Zigzag pain along urethra. Sexual overexcitement. Urethral caruncle (Eucalypt), phimosis. Stoppage of urethra by mucus and pus.
Female
Amenorrhœa when physical powers have been overtaxed, also with constipation.
Respiratory
Oppression of breathing and palpitation; must stand up. Weight on chest; rattling wheezing breathing. Cough, with green viscid, also bloody, expectoration.
Heart
Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart. Painful strokes and tension with palpitation. Pericarditis.
Sleep
Frightful dreams. More tired in morning. Sleepy during day.
Extremities
Contraction of fingers after a sprain. Dislocation of patella on going upstairs. Feet feel heavy on going upstairs. Paralytic tearing pains. Affections of the ball of the foot and under part of toes.
Modalities
Worse, lying down; going upstairs.
Relationship
Antidotes: Camph; Lemon juice.
Compare: Hedysarum-Brazilian Burdock--(Gonorrhœa and inflammation of penis); Canth; Apis; Copaiva; Thuj; Kal nit.
Dose
Tincture to third attenuation. In stuttering the 30th.
The resemblance of this remedy to Cannabis Indica is remarkable and has led to a belief that they are identical.
The one has often been substituted for the other, and has cured symptoms produced by the other. Their mental and urinary symptoms are very similar. The sensation of opening and shutting has been cured by both remedies.
Things seem strange and unreal. He seems as though in a dream. Confusion is to his personal identity. Makes mistakes in writing and speaking, and misunderstands what he reads and hears said.
Sounds in the room seem to come from a distance. When he speaks it seems as though some one else were speaking (Alum). Seems as though her senses would vanish.
European or American Hemp. N. O. Cannabinaceæ. Tincture of male and female flowering tops.
Clinical
Ascites. Asthma. Cataract. Cystitis. Eyes; cortical opacity. Fingers, contracted. Gonorrhœa. Headache. Hysteria. Infantile leucorrhœa. Nephritis. Nose-bleed. Palpitation. Phimosis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Post-partum hæmorrhage. Priapism. Stammering. Tetanus. Trachea, mucus in. Urethral caruncle.
Characteristics
Cannabis sativa resembles closely Cannabis indica, but the mental symptoms and head symptoms are less pronounced and the eye and genito-urinary symptoms more so. Characteristic sensations are: "As if hot water were poured over him; over heart. As if drops of cold water were falling: on head; from anus; from heart." As if pinched with pincers in back. Pressure as with a sharp point in coccyx. Gonorrhœa, esp. when the patient walks with the legs apart. Sexual over excitement in either sex. Threatened abortion from too frequent sexual intercourse. Threatened abortion complicated with gonorrhœa. The …
Hemp. (Urticaccae)
Sensation as of drops of water falling on or from single parts; on the head, form the anus, stomach, heart. Obstinate constipation, causing retention of the urine; constriction of anus. Contraction of fingers after a sprain. Dislocation of patelly on going up stairs. Dyspnoea or asthma, where the patient can only breathe by standing up. Choking in swallowing, things go down "the wrong way" (Anac.). Acute, inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea (second stages, burning after urination, discharge thick, yellow, pus-like, Cub.). Urethra very sensitive to touch or pressure; cannot walk with legs close together, it hurts the urethra. Pain extending from orifice of urethra backward, burning-biting, posteriorly more sticking, while urinating. Tearing pains along urethra in a zigzag direction.
Urinary Organs
Great pain in back in region of kidneys with urging to urinate, bloody urine.
Urinary Organs
The urethra feels inflammed and sore to touch along its whole length; during erection tensive pain.
Urinary Organs
Drawing pains from region of the kidneys to the inguinal glands, with anxious nauseous sensation in the pit of the stomach.
Heart and Pulse
Sensation as of drops falling from the heart.
- Gonorrhoea, especially in first stages; also simple urethritis, much burning and smarting, discharge not profuse.
Phatak's chapter on Cannabis sativa is available in the app.
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