Cannabis Sativa
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
C. sativa, Linn.
Nat. order (Cannabineæ), Urticaceæ.
Preparation , Tincture of the twigs and young leaves of the fresh
European (or American ) plant, collected when in flower.
Authorities.
1 , Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 1, 139; 2 , Franz, ibid.; 3 , Gross, ibid.; 4 , Fried. H---n, ibid.; 5 , Hempel, ibid.; 6 , Hugo, ibid.; 7 , Stapf, ibid.; 8 , Hartlaub and Trinks, ibid.; 9 , Wahle, ibid.; 10 , Haller in Vicat's Mat. Med., a general statement, ibid.; 11 , Morgagni, de sed. et causis morb., Ep., 7, 10, 15, 25, cases of disease occurring in adult male hemp-dressers, but not adduced as results of this occupation, ibid.; 12 , Neuhold, Acta nat. cur., III, 150, effects of effluvia of hemp before being dried, therefore not mere local irritation, ibid.; 13 , Olearius, Orient. Reischeschreib, p. 529, general statement, but Cann. indica must be meant, ibid.; [Transferred to Cann. Ind. -A.]
14 , Ramazzini, De morbis artif., cap. 26, affections of workers in hemp and linseed, therefore mere local irritation, ibid.; 15 , Dr. Schreter's, proving with the tincture, N. Archiv., 3, 1, 172; 15 a , Dr. Schreter's wife, proving with the tincture, ibid.; 16 , Dr. Knorre, effects of an infusion of the fresh herb, A. H. Z., 6, 34; 17 , Wibmer, effects of 5 to 50 drops of the tincture, Wirk. der Arzneimittel, 1, 23; 18 , Lembke, Z. f. H. Kl., 4, 155, proving with 10 to 70 drops of the tincture.
MIND
- Emotional.
- [At times raging delirium, so that he spits into people's faces], 11 . [After an application to the head, convulsions, subsultus tendinum, death. The post-mortem showed tubercles and pus in the lungs, inflammation of the pleura and diaphragm, firm polypi in the cavities of the heart. -H. Subject of S. 304.]
- [In part joyous, in part earnest delirium], 11 . [Subject of S. 304.]
- State of mind cheerful, serenely self-contented. (Curative reaction from the opposite condition), 15.
- Gayety, as from intoxication (after one hour), 6.
- Sadness, 1.*
- Depressed, out of humor, 15.
- For several days, especially at dinner, he has a desire for wine to enliven his depressed mood, 15.
- After taking wine and water he grew more excited, cheerful, but only while effect of the wine lasted; after that the former nausea and discomfort returned, 15.
- Anxious mood, 1. [10.]
- He became anxious and apprehensive in the pit of the stomach, with oppression of the breath and palpitation ; rising of something warm into the throat, with arrest of breathing; soon something became lodged in the trachea, with flushes of heat, 3.*
- (Extreme fear of the bed, in which, however, he afterwards lay down), 2.
- Frightened at the slightest noise (after one and a quarter hours), 6.
- Fretful, especially in the afternoon, 4.
- He is very much angered and frenzied by trifles, 7.
- Unsteadiness and oscillation of mood, 5.
- Despondent in the forenoon, lively in the afternoon, 1.
- Mind calm, 15a.
- Nothing pleases him; he is indifferent to everything, 2.
- Intellectual.
- Afternoon and evening, his thoughts are confused, so that he can no longer distinguish truth from imagination, with a kind of forgetfulness. Thus, he does not know all the evening what remedy he has taken, and is not certain the following day that it was Cannabis. He writes something in an entirely wrong place, and is not conscious of it till the next day. At the same time heat and congestion to the head, but he is cold as soon as he goes into the open air, . [20.]
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo.
- Confusion of head, 16.
- Confusion, obscuration of the head, 7.
- Confused head; it feels heavy, and she feels a painful pressure in the forehead and on the eyelids, so that they threaten to close, 3.
- Vertigo, 16. [30.]
- Attacks of vertigo, 12.
- Vertigo when standing, with dizziness, 3.*
- Vertigo when walking, with tendency to fall sideways (after one hour), 6.*
- Dizziness and confusion of the head, 9.
- She is always dizzy, as if everything would turn around with her, 15a.
- Head always as if dizzy, and it seems to her as if it moved from one side to the other, 15a.
- General Head.
- Congestion to the head when writing (first hour), 15.
- Rush of blood to the head, which causes a pleasant warmth in it, though with a pressive headache in the temples, 2.
- Great rush of blood to the head, 1.
- *Blood often rushes to the head, causing heat and flushes, 15. [40.]
- Pleasant warmth in the brain, 2.
- Dulness and whirling in the head (immediately), 3.
- A painful sensation in the head and neck on moving the head, 7.
- Headache, 16.
- Violent headache, 12.
- A very piercing headache, 12 . [See S. 284.]
- Violent throbbing, with heat of the head and fever, with which he was obliged to lie down, 17.
- Uninterrupted headache the whole day, 2.
- Throbbing and pressure in the head (after ten minutes), 17.
- Jerking, as if in the blood of the head, chest, and stomach, 1.
- Forehead. [50.]
- Slight headache in the forehead (after five minutes), .
EYE. [70.]
- Sensation of weakness in the eyes, with weakness of vision; both far and near objects are indistinct (after one and a half hours), 6.
- Sensation in the right eye as if a grain of sand were in it; he must rub it, 15.
- Burning in the eyes, evenings, 15.
- Sensation of spasmodic drawing in the eyes (after three-quarters of an hour), 6.
- Pressure from behind the eyes forward (after three-quarters of an hour), 6.*
- Orbit.
- Sensation as if the eyebrows were pressed down, 3.
- Lids.
- Pressure in the eyelids that made it difficult to open them, and sticking in the orbits, 15a.
- Tearing pressure in the upper lid, 3.
- Ball.
- The cornea becomes obscured; (film over the eye), 1.
- [Cataract], 12 . [The original is suffusiones oculorum , and occurs in a list of observed effects of hemp. Though assuredly this phrase may mean cataract (Celsus VII, 7, 114), yet it seems very unlikely that the author means to hazard in this maner so startling an assertion as that hemp can cause it. - Hughes .] [80.]
- Pressing and itching in the eyeballs; scratching and burning in the throat for several days, he is compelled to hawk, and cough hackingly and dry; later much mucus is loosened in the morning, and he ejects a good deal without exertion (curative effect), 15.
- Pupils.
- Alternating dilatation and contraction of the pupils in the same light (after one hour), 6.
- Vision.
- A circle of white flaming rays on the right side near the field of vision, so that only a portion of objects is indistinctly seen, 3.
- Mornings on waking, nothing but vertical, shining, white points that move in lines from one eye to the other; they did not cease until some time after he was up; later, occasionally flickering before the eyes; light and dark dots float in different directions before the vision, 15.
EAR
- Pain behind the right ear, as if one pushed forcible with a blunt point, 3.
- Coarse sharp stitches in the mastoid process, 3.
- Smarting pain in the external cartilage of the ear, which may have been pressed upon while lying at night in bed, 3.
- Sensation as though a membrane were stretched before the ears, 9.
- A throbbing dragging in the ear, which extends almost to the cheeks, disappearing immediately on stooping, and again returning on becoming erect (after three hours), 7.
- Momentary pain, as if the external ear were drawn out of the head, 3. [90.]
- Sticking in the ears and pain in the throat, three hours after, at ten in the morning; then cold and heat alternating with dull headache, increased by motion or stooping, and as if everything in the head were shaken; she was obliged to hold herself perfectly straight when walking or to sit still and lean back; supporting herself on the right side was easier; besides she often had stitches in the head, on the left side, near the skull and opposite to it; behind the right ear the stitches were so violent that she involuntarily started; this lasted even at night during sleep, so that she constantly moaned and groaned and complained, and was frequently awakened, 15a.
- Stitches in the external meatus while chewing, 3.
- Fine stitches in the left ear from within outward, 9.
- Throbbing in the ears, 7.
- A sensitive jerking pain in the right tympanum, extending thence to the shoulder, 9.
- Hearing.
- Ringing in ears, 16.
- Tinnitus aurium, 12.
- Roaring in the ears, 1.
- A sound in the left ear, as if the string of an instrument were struck, and reverberates a long time (after four days), 15.
NOSE
- Objective.
- Itching-swelling in the wing of the nose (after a few hours), 1. [100.]
- Sneezing and sensation of stooped coryza, although air passed through the nose, 9.
- Bleeding of the nose, 1.
- Blood spurts from the nose until one faints, 12 . [From the odor alone.]
- Dryness and dry sensation in the nose (after five days), 1.
- Subjective.
- Dryness of the nose, 1.
- Dryness and heat in the nose, 1.
- Feeling of warmth in the nose, as though it would bleed, 2.
- Stupefying pressure, as with a dull point, on the root of the nose, 3.
FACE
- Pale face, 16.
- Paleness of the face, 17. [110.]
- (Paleness of the face), 11 . [Merely a statement that the man was pale, but otherwise in good health.]
- Very decided paleness and sunkenness of the face for a long time, 17.
- Slight palpitations in various portions of the face, especially in the left buccinator, 3.
- Cheeks.
- Her left cheek is red and the right one pale, with some pain in a right tooth; the left cheek is not hot to the touch; in spite of the redness, she experiences no internal heat, 15a.
- Drawing pressure in the left malar bone, 3.
- The right upper jaw swelled on the gum with a painful bunch on it, as if from an ulcerated tooth, 15.
- Chin.
- Stupefying compressive pain in the left side of the chin, which affects the teeth of the same side, 3.
- Fine pricking in the left ramus of the lower jaw; when this ceases it is always followed by drawing, 3.
MOUTH
- Teeth and Gums.
- A hollow tooth crumbled away, and the pieces are like hard leather, 15a.
- Teeth dull, as if after acid, 15. [120.]
- Cramplike pain in the teeth of the left lower jaw, 2.
- Drawing pain in a hollow tooth, with swelling of the gums; worse evenings, 15.
- Slight drawing in a hollow tooth, especially if something acid touches it, 15.
- Toothache; drawing in a hollow tooth after some vexation; after trying to suck the air from it with his tongue it changes to violent sticking, 15.
- Shooting in several teeth at the same time, with fine pricking in them, 9.
- The gums around hollow broken tooth inflamed, swelling, and painful; even a slight drawing in the root, 15a.
- Tongue.
- Thickly coated tongue, 17.
- General Mouth.
- A bitter sour liquid rises into the mouth, with eructations, 3.
- Dryness of the mouth, throat, and lips, 17.
- Dryness of the mouth; the saliva is sticky, with loss of thirst, especially in the evening, and hot hands, 7. [130.]
- In the morning, burning dryness of the palate, 1.
- Taste.
- Loss of taste, 16.
- Speech.
- [Speech difficult], 11 . [In subject of S. 311, q. v.]
- He was utterly unable to speak as usual; at one time he missed a word, at another he lost the voice (for four hours); towards evening these attacks were repeated; there was at one time a torrent of words, as if one were driving him; at another time he faltered in his speech, so that he sometimes spoke the same word ten times in succession in the same breath; at times his whole idea was anxiously repeated, and it angered him if he was unable to repeat it in the same words, 2.
THROAT
- Tasteless water rises into the throat and gets into the trachea, so that he is obliged to swallow, without nausea or retching, 3.
- Hawking of mucus; it is raised with difficulty, and irritates his throat, 15.
- (Burning in the throat), 11 . [As S. 132.]
- Pain in the throat, as if sore, with great sensation of dryness, worse mornings in bed; after rising a small lump of mucus is discharged from the throat, which afforded much relief (second day), 15.
STOMACH
- Appetite.
- For several days he has a great deal of appetite, evenings; cats more than he ought to, and feels uncomfortable in consequence, 15.
- Loss of appetite, 16. [140.]
- Complete loss of appetite, 17.
- On taking food which he relished he soon became satisfied, with transient nausea rising into the throat, 3.
- His breakfast-cocoa relishes tolerably, but he can take very little, and feels neither hungry nor satisfied; growling and rumbling in the abdomen, in the stomach like a slight cramp; when he thinks of what he could eat he has no desire for anything, and yet he feels as if his stomach were empty, 15.
- Eructations and Hiccough.
- Eructations, 16.
- Eructations of air, 3.
- Eructations of a bitter acrid fluid, 3.
- Eructation, with taste of bread, after breakfast; later empty eructation, 15.
- Violent hiccough in the morning, 15a.
- Heartburn, 15.
- Nausea and Vomiting.
- Nausea, causing a desire to vomit, 8. [150.]
- Nausea and inclination to hawk mucus, and vomiting, lessened after drinking coffee, 15.
- Nausea, discomfort, and prostration all day; frequent empty eructations, with fulness in the abdomen, no appetite with it, but tolerable relish when he eats, 15.
- Waked December 12th with nausea and inclination to vomit, as the day before, although he had eaten little the evening before and only drank water; uncomfortable all the morning; yawns sleepily, indolent, not inclined to anything, 15.
- When waking later he still feels nausea, which is increased by thinking of food he has eaten, 15.
- December 11th, in the morning he awakes with great nausea and inclination to vomit, especially when lying on the right side; lying on he left relieved it; finally the excessive inclination to vomit ceased, and allowed him to sleep again, 15.
- Gagging, with inclination to vomit, 15.
- A retching sensation suddenly rises up into the throat, as from acidity of the stomach, .
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Painful hard swelling of the right hypochondrium, 11 . [Liver found diseased, post mortem.]
- Dull sticking in the left side, just below the ribs, when breathing and when not, 3.*
- Beating as with a hammer in the left side below the lowest ribs, extending towards the back, 3.
- Umbilical.
- Several mornings, from eight to ten, sensation below the navel as if he had taken cold, with movings in the abdomen, though without diarrhœa, 1.
- Pain on the left side near the navel, and also posteriorly near the spine, as if the parts were pinched and compressed by pincers, 3.
- Griping just above the navel (after eating), 3.
- Pain in the right side near the navel like a beating from within outward, 3.
- General Abdomen. [180.]
- [Sacklike swelling of the abdomen without swelling of the legs or feet], 11 . [Subject of S. 322, found on post-mortem to be due to spinal incurvation; this occurred eight days before death.]
- Complete loss of tone of the intestines; even the strongest cathartics in the largest doses did not suffice to overcome it, 17.
- Shaking of the intestines in the abdomen, on violent motion of the arms, as if the intestines were quite loose, 2.
- Movings in the abdomen, followed by dull stitches in the left side extending to the ear, 3.
- Incarcerated flatus in the upper and lower abdomen, lasting until evening, with colic pains, 9.
- Noisy passage of flatus in the morning, 15.
- Pain in the abdomen, cutting; did not stop after rubbing, and only diminished after drinking cold water, 15a.
- Slight pain always before stool, as if before the menses, 15a.
- Fulness of the abdomen, which compelled deep breathing, 1.
- Pinching in the abdomen as if to stool (after half an hour), 15. [190.]
- Griping in the whole abdomen, 3.
- Colic-like pains in the upper abdomen, followed by diarrhœa-like stool and smarting pain in the anus, .
RECTUM AND ANUS
- A pressing in the rectum and sacral region as if the intestines were sinking down and would be pressed out while sitting, 2.*
- Sticking in the rectum, with a kind of contraction of the sphincter; often during the day, especially when walking (first day), 15.
- Constrictive pain in the anus, together with a sensation as if the thighs were drawn together, so that she was obliged to close them, 3.*
- Sensation in the anus as if something trickled out on to the skin which was cold, 2.
- Urgency to stool after dinner; later, itching in the rectum with slight stitches in it, 15. [210.]
- Woke up at 6 with desire to stool; went twice but only passed very much noisy flatus; urgency to stool continued. After taking a cup of coffee and smoking a pipe the sensation of disagreeable urgency ceased, and a somewhat hard stool succeeded; but nausea and inclination to vomit set in, that was only allayed by keeping quiet, 15.
- Urgency to stool; tenesmus and urinating continued, so that he could hardly walk. After coffee and a pipe of tobacco some evacuation of crumbling stool, and decrease of the symptoms, but he was soon obliged to vomit up the coffee, which was strongly mixed with mucus, 15.
STOOL
- The usually regular stool appears irregularly, sometimes mornings, sometimes afternoons, sometimes evenings, usually with a kind of tenesmus; only a little is evacuated by straining, and a sensation of tenesmus remains after it. Sometimes he is suddenly urged to stool, and forcibly evacuates a pappy or rather liquid substance with relief, 15.
- Stool sometimes like diarrhœa, sometimes hard, 15a.
- Stool quite thin and yellowish; she thought it was flatus but passed this stool, 15a.
- Stool scanty, crumbling, with passage of flatus, 15.
- The usual stool for the first five days; for the next two days it was completely suppressed, 3.
URINARY ORGANS
- Kidneys.
- Drawing pain in the region of the kidney extending into the inguinal glands, with anxious nauseous sensation in the pit of the stomach, 1.*
- Pain in the region of the kidneys as if ulcerated, when touched and when touched and when not, 2.
- Urethra.
- Orifice of the urethra somewhat inflamed, painful, and somewhat hard to the touch, 15. [220.]
- Painless mucous discharge from the urethra (a beginning of gonorrhœa?), 1.
- Painless discharge of clear, transparent mucus from the urethra, violent erections, 2.
- Watery mucous discharge from the urethra, 4.
- The orifice of the urethra was agglutinated by moisture, with could be seen by pressing it out, 5.
- *Pain extending from the orifice of the urethra backward, burning-biting, posteriorly more sticking, while urinating, 1.
- *The urethra feels inflamed and sore to touch along its whole length; during erections, tensive pain, 1.
- *Burning while urinating, but especially just after urinating, 1.
- Burning while urinating, but especially afterward; worse in the evening, 1.
- Burning along the whole urethra, though only at the commencement and end of urinating, 4.*
- While urinating, at first burning from the glans backward; after urinating, a biting pain, 1. [230.]
- Simple, but violent burning in the forepart of the urethra, while passing urine, 1.
- When not urinating, some burning pain in the forepart of the urethra, which compels him to urinate almost constantly, even when there is no more urine to pass, 1.*
- Burning in the orifice of the urethra, while urinating, 1.
- Pressure as if to urinate, especially in the forepart of the urethra, when not urinating, 1.*
- Cutting pain in the forepart of the urethra, when urinating, .
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Coldness in the genitals, with warmth in the rest of the body (on the same day, and lasting three days), 5.
- The whole penis was swollen, without marked erections, 4.*
- Erections while coughing, followed by pain in the urethra, 1.
- Frequent erections during the day, only when sitting, not when walking, 1.
- Frequent erections, followed by stitches in the urethra, 1.*
- Mornings, in bed, excessive erections without desire, and a cutting-sticking in the orifice of the urethra, 15.
- He had an embrace in the evening without desire, followed at night by excessive and painful erections that roused him from sleep, 15. [260.]
- Pain on the right side near the penis, like piercing shocks, during rest and motion, 3.
- Very indifferent to sexual intercourse during the day, but after an embrace in the evening excessive erections followed in the morning, and again frequently during the day, especially during the forenoon, 15.
- No proper erection during an embrace in the morning, especially towards the last; scarcely perceives the ejaculation, 15.
- The whole penis is painful, as if sore or burnt, when walking (he was obliged to have it suspended), 4.*
- Swelling of the prostate gland, 1.
- Moisture about the corona glandis, 4.
- The skin of the glans is covered with bright red spots of the size of a pea, brighter than the glans itself, 4.
- The glans itself is dark-red, as dark as the prepuce, 4.*
- Swelling of the glans and penis; a kind of insensible erection, 2.
- Swelling of the frænum and the prepuce, especially were it unites with the frænum, 5. [270.]
- The whole prepuce is dark-red, hot, and inflamed, 4.
- Swelling of the right side and lower portion of the prepuce, 4.
- Constant burning of the whole prepuce and glans for four days; applications of cold water caused smarting, 4.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Trachea.
- In the morning, tough mucus in the lower portion of the trachea, which cannot be dislodged by coughing and hawking; he makes great exertions, but only loosens a little, and even this does not come into the mouth, but he is obliged to swallow it; after hawking and coughing a scraping sensation remains in the trachea, as if it were raw and sore; finally the mucus loosens itself, and he is obliged to hawk it up repeatedly, 3.*
- Towards the seventh day, the previously tenacious mucus is easily loosened in the morning, and the difficulty of breathing, which she had felt up to this if time (as if a load were lying upon the chest), was immediately relieved, 3.
- Voice.
- The voice is raised, with unusual anxiety and complaint of pain in the back, 2.
- [Voice changed, more like a clangor than the human voice], 11 . [Local effect.]
- Voice frequently inaudible, 16.
- Cough.
- Cough, 18.
- [Constant cough], 14 . [Local effect.] [300.]
- Dry, very violent cough, 12.
- A hacking cough arises at times from the pit of the throat, with which a cold salty fluid is felt deep down in the throat, 7.*
- [Expiration causes cough], 11 . [See note to S. 311.]
- Respiration.
- [Respiration very much impeded], 11 . [Part of S. 311.]
- [Difficult inspiration, without expectoration], 11 . [Subject of S. 312; being tired with carrying a burden, he had Ss. 321, 449, and came into the hospital with this dyspnœa; died of phrenitis; see Hahnemann's note to S. 1.]
- [Dyspnœa], 14.
- Oppression of breathing, and pressive pain over whole chest, 16.
- Oppression of breathing, from tensive-pressive pains in the middle of the sternum, which was also sore to touch, together with sleepiness, 1.*
- Oppressed breathing; he feels anxiety in the chest, with stitches between the shoulder-blades; is obliged to sit down, which relieves it; increased after dinner (after ten days), .
CHEST
- [Inflammation of the chest and lungs six or seven times), 11 . [Local effect.]
- [Inflammation of the lungs, with delirium], 11 . [As S. 312.]
- [Inflammation of the lungs, with vomiting of green, bilious substances], 11 . [As S. 312.]
- The chest feels oppressed, with a sensation of apprehension in the throat; she is obliged to breathe deeply, 3.*
- Cutting across the external parietes of the chest, 2.
- Stitches in the external parietes of the chest, 2.
- Chest rough, scratchy, and dry, 15.
- Early in the morning, a sensation of scraping in the chest as from salt; she is obliged to hawk to loosen something, which she swallows, because it is not raised into the mouth, 3. [320.]
- The male nipple becomes inflamed, itches, and is painful to the touch; beside the nipple a mattery pimple, that heals without opening, with the nipple, 15.
- [Pain like needle stitches in the left nipple], 11 . [See note to S. 304.]
- Front.
- [An elevation and a nodule on the ensiform cartilage, which for two years had remained painless, afterwards caused difficulty in breathing], 11 . [See not to S. 180.]
- Violent pinching under the sternum in the lower portion of the chest, which does not hinder breathing; it was relieved on bending backward, and was most violent on bending forward, when it was worse on inspiration, 3.
- A digging beneath the upper part of the sternum, without oppression of the breath, 3.*
- A sensation of hammering beneath one of the cartilages of the ribs, near the sternum, 3.
- Sides.
- A tensive confusion of the left half of the chest, with slight jerkings, palpitation, and anxiety, 3.
- Drawing pain in the left lowest ribs, 2.
- A pushing, as with intermitting dull stitches, a kind of pressing inward in the left side of the chest, without oppression of breathing, 3.
- Pushings or beatings in both sides of the chest, which frequently return and arrest the breathing; they are most painful in the region of the heart, . [330.]
HEART AND PULSE
- Præcordium.
- Pain in the region of the heart, 11 . [See note to S. 163.]
- Heart's Action.
- Pulsations of the heart felt below the natural limits, 11 . [See note to S. 163.]
- On moving the body and on stooping, a few violent beatings at the heart, as if it would fall out, together with a warm sensation about the heart (after forty-eight hours), 1.*
- Sudden, violent palpitation, 16.
- Pulse.
- Very small pulse, 11 . [See note to S. 163.]
- Slow, scarcely perceptible pulse, 6.
NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- Drawing in the neck, extending upward into the cervical vertebræ, 2.
- Drawing from the neck to the ear, more like a pinching, externally, 3. [340.]
- Painful pressure in the cervical muscles above the throat, 3.
- Stitches in the lowest portion of the neck, as with a knife, 2.
- Back.
- The pain in the back frequently arrested breathing, 2.
- Dorsal.
- Burning beneath the right shoulder-blade, 2.
- An itching fine stitch in the right side near the shoulder-blade, which disappears after scratching, 3.
- (In the lower dorsal vertebræ a heavy pressure and fine sticking pain (lasting fifty days), which sometimes extended down to the loins or towards the shoulder-blades), 11 . [See note to S. 180.]
- Lumbar.
- Pain in the middle of the back, as if one were pinched with pincers, which extends towards the abdomen, 2.
- Slow, intermitting, dull stitches in the left side of the back, beneath the lowest ribs, 3.
- Severe pain in the small of the small of the back, especially aggravated after the slightest exertion, and obliging him to sit down and rest, 17.
- Sacral.
- Pressure on the coccyx, as with a dull point, 3. [350.]
- Pain on the left side near the coccyx in the bone, as if some hard body pressed forcible against this part, 3.
CANNABIS SATIVA. EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- The weariness of the limbs lasted several weeks, 17.
- Immediately after eating, all the limbs are tired, with tearing pressure in the left side, beneath the short ribs; the spot is painful to pressure, 3.
- Rheumatic drawing in the periosteum of the long bones of all the limbs, on motion, as if they were bruised, 2.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Shoulder.
- A severe pain on pressing between the end of the clavicle and the head of the humerus, which extends into the fingers, 3.
- Tearing pressure upon the top of the shoulder, intermitting, 3.
- Sensation in the shoulder, as if it were bruised, on stretching out the arm, 3.
- Arm.
- Sticking in the upper arm and bones of the little finger; this condition lasted three days, diminishing daily, 15a.
- Wrist.
- (The wrist feels dead; he is unable to move it), 1.
- Hand.
- Heaviness and going to sleep of the right hand; relieved by motion, writing, for instance, 15. [360.]
- Sudden lameness of the hand; he was unable to hold the fork with the fingers while eating; the whole hand trembled on taking hold of anything; it seemed helpless, with painful loss of power in it, 7.
- Cramplike intermitting contraction of the right hand, 3.
- Cramplike contraction of the metacarpal bones, 3.
- A dull stitch in the hollow of the hand, over the carpal bones, 3.
- Fingers.
- Cramp in the joints of the thumb, while writing, 2.
- Stitches in the third finger of the right hand, as if with a needle (after three hours), 15.
- Crawling in the tips of the fingers, as if they had begun to go to sleep and were numb (immediately after taking), 5.
- Later in the afternoon, sensation as when severe cold causes tingling under the nails, 15.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Weariness in the limbs, which disappeared when walking (after 40 drops), 17.
- He feared that he should sink down, such sudden weariness attacked the lower limbs especially; he staggered on the slightest motion of the body, though when walking he seemed to be more steady (after three hours), 2. [370.]
- [The right leg is very difficult to move; afterwards paralyzed, with greater loss of motion than of sensation], 11 . [See note to S. 180.]
- Hip.
- A pinching jerking-digging pain in the right hip, which almost one cry out, 1.
- Thigh.
- When stooping, cramp in the buttocks; must stand erect at once; on repeated stooping, repeated cramp in the same place (after 10 drops), 15.
- Sitting causes a pain in the right buttock, as if from strong pressure, with going to sleep of the right foot, 15.
- Painless cramplike sensation in the posterior portion of the right thigh, as if a muscle would begin to twitch, 2.
- Continued pressure in the middle of the forepart of the thigh, when sitting, 3.
- In the flesh of the upper part of the thigh, near the groin, sensitive, sharp, needle-like stitches, 8.
- In the bend of the thigh, at first some jerking shocks, followed by a sensation as if the region of the abdominal ring as of distension, and a sensation as of the ring itself were pressed outward, 2.
- Knee.
- When going upstairs, the patella snaps sideways, 2.
- Prickling-burning in the left knee intermitting, 3. [380.]
- When walking, a drawing-like cramp in the hollow of the knee, which extends along the inner muscles of the thigh, 2.
- Tearing constrictive pressure in the left knee, in the forehead, and over all parts of the body, 3.
- Leg.
- A burning in the right tibia, when standing, 2.
- Beside the left tibia, in the flesh, a pain from outward, as if after a severe bruise, and then sticking in the whole left extremity, 15a.
- Cramp in the calves, when walking, 1.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Secretions generally increased, 17.
- [Hysterical attacks], 12 . [In those predisposed to them.]
- [Cataleptic spasms of the upper limbs and trunk from time to time, which lasted a quarter of an hour, during which he vomited a yellow fluid, which was followed by some delirium], 11 . [Paralysis and death followed this; the post-mortem showed pus in the kidneys, thickened mucous membranes in the bladder, congestion of the bloodvessels of the diaphragm, water in the convolutions, but none in the ventricles of the brain. See note to S. 180.] [400.]
- Indolence and weariness in the whole body, 4.
- He is indolent and weary, yawns much, and stretches as if he desired to sleep, 3.
- Weariness, tottering of the knees, and a dull pain in them (after one hour), 6.
- Great weariness after a slight motion; after going upstairs he lay upon the sofa quite exhausted and unable to move or talk freely, 7.
- He is more weary in the morning, after waking from an almost unbroken sleep, than he was the evening previous, on lying down, 3.
- After eating, he was weary and indolent; everything affected him, even talking and writing, 3.
- Weakness, 16.
- [Loss of power of the body], 11 . [See note S. 180.]
- He felt very uneasy directly after taking; what he wished to write was suddenly effaced from his memory, 15.
- Subjective.
- She felt sick in her whole body, could not endure it, must lie down on account of weariness and heaviness of the limbs, 8. [410.]
- An hour after breakfast, discomfort in the whole body, especially in the abdomen, as if inflated, with sticking-cutting pains there, chilliness all over at the same time, 15.
- Superficial pinching here and there in the flesh, as if the parts were pinched with the finger, 3.
- Tearing pushes and tearing deeply penetrating stitches in many parts, especially in the limbs, 3.
SKIN
- Eruptions, Dry.
- Large pimples on the nose, surrounded by red swelling, like acne rosacea, 1.
- Eruption on the red portion of the lips and in the corner of the mouth, 1.
- Pimply eruption, that itches and pains, on breast and back, 15.
- Itching pimples on the neck, nape of the neck, and breast, 15a.
- Itching pimples (urticaria?) rise on the arms and nape of the neck, that, however, soon pass away (evening), 15.
- Eruptions, Moist.
- Eruptions on head and chest of vesicles filled with white serum, surrounded by a red areola; vesicles burn on touch, 16.
- Papulous smooth border, which burned like fire, especially when lying upon them or touching them; they left brownish-red spots after two days, which were very painful to touch, 2.
- Eruptions, Pustular. [420.]
- An inflamed pimple in the right ear, very painful to the touch, with swelling of the inner ear; matter gradually forms that discharges after four days, mixed with blood, and it heals (after four days), 15.
- A mattery pimple on the nape of the neck, painful at night (sixth day), 1.
- Sensations.
- A very obstinate fine sticking, as with a thousand needle-points, over the whole body, so that he is unable to endure it, at night, in bed, when he became sweaty from warm coverings; at first it began in a few places, and when he scratched them it suddenly changed, and extended to several other places; with this he had great anxiety of the heart, and a sensation as if hot water were thrown repeatedly over him; this was relieved on uncovering himself, 3.
- Crawling itching-biting, as from salt, on the face, 1.
- Itching here and there on the face, 1.
- Itching on the chin and tip of the nose, 15.
- Almost sore, painful itching about the navel, for several hours, which pained as if sore, and was sensitive after rubbing, 1.
- Itching in the perineum, 1.
- Itching on the hands and fingers, without visible eruption, 15.
- Itching around the knee, 1.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Sleepiness. [430.]
- Constant frequent yawning for a quarter of an hour (after one and a half hours), 6.
- Sleepiness, 17.
- Sleepiness during the day, 7.
- Sleepiness the whole day, 2.
- Overpowering sleepiness during the forenoon, 1.
- Sleepy after dinner for a quarter of an hour; after the sleepiness passed off he began to yawn and grew sleepy again, 15.
- Sleeplessness.
- Sleeplessness after midnight, 1.
- (Loss of sleep), 11 . [In subject of S. 311. Much serum found in the brain, post mortem.]
- Uneasy sleep, 1.
- Uneasy sleep at night, frequent waking; confused, and, at times anxious dreams; emissions, followed by light sleep, 2.
- Dreams. [440.]
- Dreamy in the head for several days, as if the room were turning round with her, 15a.
- Very vivid dreams, of a rather agreeable kind, 15.
- He had confused dreams every night, which continued even after waking, and were recollected, 3.
- Dreams of mishaps to others, 1.
- Disagreeable and frightful dreams; he is disappointed in everything, and is filled with great anxiety, 3.*
- He awoke at night from slumber with frightful dreams, without knowing where he was, 1.*
- Very vivid, horrid dreams, which, however, did not make him anxious, but he always retained a kind of presence of mind, 3.
FEVER
- Shivering frequently creeps upward from the soles of the feet, 3.
- Shivering creeps over the whole body, but also reaches the head, and seems to draw the hairs together, 3.
- [Febrile chill], 11 . [See note to S. 304.] [450.]
- Chill with thirst, without subsequent heat and without sweat, in the afternoon (after fifty-two hours), 1.
- Chilly for several hours (immediately), 9.
- Evenings, chilliness, yawning, stretching of the limbs, and indolence; goes to bed early without being exactly sleepy, 15.
- Fever, shaking chill, with excessive thirst and shuddering after drinking, together with cold hands, knees, and feet; accompanied by hurriedness, trembling, distortion of the face; at one time weeping, at another joyous, at another raging mood; everything angered him so that he got into a rage about it; during the chill some warmth in the back and in the feet, which perspired, but were not warm to touch, 2.
- Shivering in the right thigh, as if goose-flesh would form, 2.
- Creeping shivering in the thighs (immediately), 3.
- Creeping shivers over the trunk, with a sensation of a kind of discomfort, at short intervals, 3.
- The whole body is cold, but the face becomes constantly warmer and warmer, 6.
- The limbs are cold to the touch, and he trembles from chilliness, 3.
- Coldness and cold sensation of the hands, 6.
- Heat. [460.]
- Warmth, with warm sensation in the face, 6.
- Excessive heat and fever; she glowed in the face, but was cold at every motion, with violent pains in the throat swollen inside and out, with difficulty in swallowing; very much prostrated; she was obliged to lie down all day, and the stitches in the head continued, 15a.
- He is very hot during the night, and begins to perspire slightly towards morning, 15.
- Violent burning of the whole skin, especially feet, hands, abdomen, also in the palms; afterwards itching, that compels him to scratch all night, also early the following day (six days), 15.
- Orgasm of blood, 12.
- Sweat.
- Sweat on the forehead and neck, at night, .
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Throbbing of temporal artery; on waking, white points before eyes; dryness of palate; in bed, pain in throat; hiccough; pressure in stomach; from 8 to 10 o'clock, sensation below navel; passage of flatus; urine whey-like, etc.; in bed, erections, etc.; early, sensation in chest.
- ( Forenoon ), Despondent; feeling in stomach; sleepiness.
- ( Afternoon ), Fretful.
- ( Evening ), Burning in eyes; pain in hollow tooth; dryness of mouth, etc.; excessive appetite; in bed, stitches in sides of abdomen; burning while urinating.
- ( Night ), Heat; sweat on forehead, etc.
- ( After midnight ), Sleeplessness.
- ( Towards morning ), Perspiration.
- ( Contact with acids ), Drawing in hollow tooth.
- ( When ascending stairs ), Heaviness in feet.
- ( After breakfast ), Eructations, etc.
- ( While chewing ), Stitches in external meatus.
- ( At dinner ), Desire for wine.
- ( After eating ), Feet feel heavy; weary, etc.
- ( After an embrace ), Itching, stinging in vagina, etc.
- ( During erections ), Tensive pain.
- ( Exertion ), Pain in small of back.
- ( Inspiration ), While bending forward, pinching under sternum.
- ( On lying down ), Difficult breathing.
- ( Lying on right side ), Nausea, etc.
- ( On motion ), Beating at heart; drawing in periosteum of long bones.
- ( While sitting ), Pressing in rectum, etc.; erections; pain in buttock, etc.; pressure in thigh; drawing, etc., in heel.
- ( When standing ), Vertigo, etc.; stitches in urethra; pressive sensation in testicles; pain in spermatic cord; burning in tibia.
SUPPLEMENT: CANNABIS SATIVA. Authorities.
19 , Andrew Robertson, Pharm. Journ., vol. vi, 1846, p. 72, quotes Mr. Bartlett, a young man took a small dose of the extract; 20 , Wm. F. Daniell, M.D., Pharm. Journ. vol. ix, 1850, p. 364, effects of smoking Dakka; 21 , Obs. sur Le Chanvre Indigène, by Prosper Albert, Strasbourg, 1859, the author took 3 grams of the alcoholic extract of the leaves an hour after eating; 22 , ibid., a girl, aged twenty-five years, took 200 grams of the extract of the leaves; 23 , ibid., the author, at another time, took 3 grams of the extract; 24 , ibid., M. L., took the extract; 25 , ibid., M. L., took 2 grams; 26 , ibid., M. L., took 6 grams of the alcoholic extract; 27 , ibid., the author took 4 grams of the extract.
MIND
- First seemed very animated with a congested face, with great loquacity, inclining the head to the right and left, 24.
- Great agitation, 26.
- Became almost violent, when he assumed a very sad, preoccupied air, 26.
- Gesticulations, 23.
- Spasmodic gestures, 20. [470.]
- She rose up and spun around on one foot and began to walk, 22.
- Disposition to laugh, 21, 27.
- Constant laughter mingled with cries, 22.
- Whistling and singing, 21.
- Great loquacity, 26.
- Constant murmuring of unintelligible words, 22.
- At first she seemed very much preoccupied, 22.
- Great sadness after the experiment, 21.
- Upon the subsidence of temporary excitement, the party experiences all those soothing sensations of ease and comfort, with that pleasing languor stated to constitute the potent charm that renders it in such universal request. If the inhaling process is carried beyond this stage, inebriation shortly supervenes, 20. [480.]
- The action was that of a powerful narcotic. He felt all the symptoms of intoxication, 19.
- I seemed to lose consciousness of the existence of my limbs, a sensation compared to that when under the influence of chloroform, without complete loss of consciousness, 21.
- She went into a comatose state, which lasted four hours, 22.
HEAD
- Vertigo was the first symptom, 23.
- My head seemed to describe a circular movement, which propagated itself to the whole body, so that I fell to the ground, 21.
- Whirling in the head, 26.
- Head heavy, 27.
- Great heaviness of the head, 27.
- Heaviness of the head, and headache after the experiment, 26.
- Sensation of dulness in the head like pressure, 21. [490.]
- Tension in the head, 23.
- Pains on the top of the head, 27.
- Compression of the temples, 27.
EYE
- Eyes injected, 22, 25.
- Eyes injected and very brilliant, 27.
- Heat and prickling in the external angles of the eyes, 27.
- Suffused eyes, 20.
- Pupils dilated, 22.
- Pupils greatly dilated, 27.
- Pupils dilated, sensitive to light, 27. [500.]
- On attempting to write, I found that the characters made with the pen were exceedingly fine, 27.
- Sense of flame playing in front of the eyes, 27.
EAR
- Loud singing in the ears, 27.
FACE
- Became very pale, and fell down prostrated, 22.
- Flushed face, 20, 26.
- Stupid expression, 26.
- Grimaces, as in chorea, 21.
- Efforts to laugh, 23.
- Contractions of the muscles of the face, 26.
- Spasmodic contraction of the jaws, 27.
MOUTH. [510.]
THROAT
- Dryness of the pharynx, 27.
- Swallowing became difficult on account of absence of saliva; it was impossible to eat, 21.
STOMACH
- Ate with unusual avidity, in fact, like a glutton; after the meal she had an appearance of astonishment, and looked at persons about her with a strange expression, 22.
- Nausea, 27.
- At last nausea and profuse vomiting, 26.
- Heaviness in the epigastrium, 27.
URINARY ORGANS
RESPIRATORY ORGANS. [520.]
- As the too frequent employment of this plant must induce considerable bronchial irritation, with repeated attacks of pulmonary congestion and inflammation, emaciation as a necessary sequence gradually ensues, while a premature decrepitude of frame, conjoined with serious organic affections of the lungs, insidiously steals onward, and under the mask of phthisis finally terminates the existence of the victim, 20.
- Violent paroxysms of coughing, 20.
- Respiration rapid, 23, 26, 27.
- Respiration very difficult, 22.
- I breathed with great force, with a sensation of heat, 21.
- Dyspnœa, 26.
HEART AND PULSE
- Palpitation, 21, 27.
- Pulse rapid, 23.
- The pulse became very rapid and small, 22.
- Pulse very rapid and irregular, 27. [530.]
- Pulse 75 (before the experiment); rose to 140, and became very irregular, 26.
- Pulse 80 (before the experiment); rose to 140, and then varied from 130 to 140 for some time, 27.
- Pulse 120, 25.
- Pulse 100, 24.
- Pulse small and irregular, 21.
NECK AND BACK
- Beating in the nape of the neck, 27.
- Pains at the base of the cerebral column, extending along the sciatic nerve, and in the hip-joint, 27.
EXTREMITIES
- Contractions of the limbs, as in chorea, 21.
- Stiffness of the limbs, 22.
- Heaviness of the limbs, 27.
GENERALITIES. [540.]
- When walking, seemed affected with chorea, 23.
- General stiffness, 27.
- Tendency to immobility, 27.
- Great feebleness after the experiment, 21, 26, 27.
- Great fatigue, 27.
- Great lassitude, 27.
- After the experiment great feebleness and desire to sleep, 25.
- Sensation of indolence in the whole body, 27.
- Frequent remissions, during which I said the attack had passed off, but I had no sooner said it than the attack returned anew, 21.
SKIN
- Vague sensation of tingling, like a beginning of anæsthesia of the skin (after half an hour), 21.