CANNABIS SATIVA


Homeopathic remedy Cannabis Sativa drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Hemp HAHNEMANN Cannabineae.

Mind

      Says one thing for another when speaking.

Thoughts seem to stand still.

Sadness; despondent in forenoon lively in afternoon.

Anxious and apprehensive feeling at pit of stomach, with oppression of breath and palpitation.

Makes mistakes in writing.

Sensorium

      Vertigo; when standing, with swimming of the head; when walking with tendency to fall sideways.

Rush of blood to the head, causing heat and flushes.

Violent throbbing, with heat of the head, and fever.

Inner Head

      The forehead feels compressed, from the margins of the orbits to the temples; not relieved by bending forward.

Pressure below the frontal eminence, extending deep through the brain to the occiput.

Pressure in the temples.

Outer Head

      Sensation as if drops of cold water were falling on the head.

Crawling in the scalp.

Eyes

      Alternating dilatation and contraction of the pupils in the same light.

Sensation of spasmodic drawing, in the eyes.

Pressure from back of the eyes, forwards.

Ears

      Ringing in the ears.

Throbbing in the ears.

Nose

      Dryness of nose.

Stupefying pressure, like from a blunt point on the root of nose.

Bleeding of nose.

Large pimples on the nose, surrounded by red swelling.

Face

      Face pale.

Left cheek red, but not hot; right one pale; pain in a tooth, right side.

Slight pulsations in various portions of the face, particularly in the left buccinator.

Lower Face

      Numbing, compressing pain in left side of chin, affects the teeth of the same side.

Teeth

      Pain in hollow teeth.

Tongue etc.

      Loss of taste.

Difficult speech, at times stuttering.

Mouth

      Dryness of the mouth, throat and lips.

Throat and Lips.

      Burning dryness of the palate, mornings.

Dryness of the throat.

Nausea and Vomiting

      Eructations; of air; of bitter, acrid fluid.

Stomach

      Cramp in the stomach.

Uninterrupted dull stitches, near pit of stomach, just below ribs.

Hypochondria

      Dull stitching in the left side, just below the ribs, when breathing or not.

Abdomen

      Intestines feel as if bruised.

Painful jerks in the abdomen, moving from place to place as if something living were in it.

Pain and pressing outwards in the abdominal ring, as if the parts would suppurate.

Stool etc.

      Pressure in the rectum and sacral region, as if the intestines were sinking down and would be pressed out, while sitting.

Obstinate constipation; sometimes causing retention of urine.

Constrictive pains in anus, together with a sensation as if thighs were drawn together, she was obliged to close them.

Urine

      Soreness, and inflammation of kidneys and bladder.

Drawing pain from region of kidneys to inguinal glands with anxious, nauseous sensation in pit of stomach.

Long standing dysuria.

Strangury. In typhoid fever.

Burning, smarting in urethra, from meatus back wards; posteriorly stitching while urinating.

Urethra feels inflamed and sore to the touch, along its whole length; during erections tensive pain.

Painless discharge of mucus, more or less profuse.

Burning while urinating, but especially just after.

Burning along the urethra, at commencement and at end of urinating.

When not urinating, burning pain in forepart of urethra, which compels him to urinate almost constantly.

Pressure as if to urinate specially in the forepart of the urethra when not urinating Tearing along the urethra in a zigzag direction.

Jerking stitches in posterior portion of urethra, when standing.

Stream of urine forked Urine: white turbid; or red and turbid.

Male Sexual Organs

      Increased sexual desire.

Impotence from sexual abuse.

Frequent erections, followed by stitches in the urethra.

Penis swollen, without marked erections.

Penis painful, as if sore or burnt, when walking.

Burning stinging of penis.

Piercing pains in penis.

Pressive dragging sensation in the testicles, when standing.

Great swelling of the prepuce, approaching phimosis.

Dark redness of glands and prepuce.

Light red, lentil sized spots on the glans.

Female Sexual Organs

      Increased sexual desire particularly in sterile women.

Too profuse menses with dysuria.

Pregnancy

      Threatened abortion in gonorrhoeic patients or occurring from to frequent sexual intercourse.

Larynx

      In morning, tough mucus in lower portion of trachea, cannot be dislodged by coughing and hawking; after hawking and coughing, trachea feels raw and sore; finally, the mucus loosens of itself, and he must hawk it up frequently.

Breathing

      Oppression of breathing, from tensive from tensive pressive pains in the middle of the sternum, which was also sore to touch; sleepiness.

Obliged to breathe deeply; chest oppressed; sensation of apprehension in the throat.

Dyspnoea and extreme agitations; must sit most of the time.

Wheezing and mucous rales.

Cough

      Hacking cough, arises from the pit of the throat, with a cool,. salty fluid deep in throat, posteriorly.

Cough, with a green, viscid expectoration.

Lungs

      Sore feeling under the upper part of the sternum.

Heart Pulse

      Violent beating of the heart, on moving the body and on stooping, with warm sensation about the heart.

Pulse very weak, slow, frequently almost imperceptible.

Neck Back

      Drawing in the neck, extending upwards.

Pain in small of back.

Upper Limbs

      Rending pressure on shoulder, in attacks.

Coldness and cold feeling of the hands.

Formication and numb feeling in tips of the fingers.

Sudden lameness of the hand, trembling of the hand when attempting to clasp anything.

Lower Limps.

      Cramp-like jerking; digging pain in right hip.

Drawing pain in the feet.

Limbs in General

      Weariness of the limbs.

Neuralgic pains in the limbs.

Position etc.

      Walking:. Moving: Standing:. Stooping: Bending forward : Sitting: Must sit: Moving from place to place:.

Sleep

      Sleepiness.

Uneasy sleep at night.

Dreams disagreeable and frightful; disappointed in everything and is filled with anxiety.

Awoke at night from slumber, with frightful dreams, not knowing where he was.

Vivid, lascivious dreams after midnight.

Time

      Morning:, Forenoon: Afternoon: Night: After midnight:.

Temperature and Weather

      Worse from warm covering; better when uncovered:.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Chill, with thirst and shaking.

Shivering over the whole body.

External coldness of whole body, with exception of face.

Heat only in the face but slight.

Nightly burning heat.

Sweat wanting: or, only on forehead and neck, at night.

Sides

      Right: Left:. Before backwards: Behind forwards: Below upwards:.

Sensations

      Unendurable fine stitching over the whole body, as from a thousand needle-points, at night, when sweating from warm covering, better when uncovering.

Feels as if hot water were poured over him.

Sensation as if drops of cold water were falling: on the head; from the anus; from the heart.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Touch: Clasp anything:.

Sides

      Itching pimples.

Vesicles on head and chest filled with serum and surrounded by red areola; burn when touched.

Relationship

      Antidotes to Cann. sat., of large doses: lemon juice; of small doses: Camphor.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.