Cannabis Indica


Cannabis Indica signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Cannabis Indica is used…


      East Indian Cannabis sativa (Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica are botanically identical, the difference in their properties is solely due to the difference of soil and climate in which they are grown). Hashish. Bhang. Ganja. *N. O. Cannabinaceae. Tincture of young leaves and twigs.

Clinical

*Catalepsy. Chordee. Clairvoyance. Delirium tremens. *Delusions. Epilepsy. Gonorrhoea. *Headache. *Mania. Menorrhagia. *Paralysis. Prostatitis. Satyriasis. Stammering. Uremia. 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 unlimitable. 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 while 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. Gonorrhoea, 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, better deep breathing. Warmth of spine extending to head. Backache worse 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 overdose 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. Worse Lying down quietly: then thought succeeded thought only to be immediately blotted out: no inclination to sleep. Better 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.

Relations

Can. sat. In extreme sensitiveness to noise: nitricum acidum (to jarring and rumbling of wagon in street), Coffea (to all sounds), Borax (slightest noise, fall of door latch, rumpling of paper, rustling of silk), Asarum europaeum (to scratching of linen or silk, or even the thought of it). Levitation (Asarum europaeum, Calcarea, Cocc., Ph-ac., Silicea, Stict., Sulphur, Thu.). As if in a dream (Ambr., Anacardium, Calcarea, Conium, Cuprum, Medorrhinum, Rheum., Stramonium, Valer., Veratrum, Zincum met. the sensation of time being interminable distinguishes Cann-i. from the others). Horror of darkness (Am-m., Baryta carb., Calcarea, Carb-an., Phosphorus, Stramonium, Stroph., Valer.). Noise like a crash or explosion in head (Aloe.).

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Exaltation spirit, with excessive loquacity. Full of fun and mischief, and laughs immoderately. Hallucinations and imaginations innumerable. Anguish, accompanied by great oppression: better 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 absent-minded. Every few minutes he would lose himself, and then wake up, as it were, to those around him. Constantly theorizing. Clairvoyance. Delirium tremens, trembling, hallucinations, tendency to become furious, nausea, unquenchable thirst. Laughs at merest trifle. Sudden loss of memory.

Head

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, especially over the eyes. Throbbing, aching pain in forehead. Jerking in right 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 right Dull stitching in the right temple. Pain in the whole right 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.

Eyes

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.

Ears

Hearing very acute. Aching in both ears. Throbbing and fullness 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.

Face

Countenance dejected and careworn. Wearied, exhausted appearance. Drowsy, stupid look. Skin of face, especially of forehead and chin, feels as if drawn tight.

Mouth

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.

Throat

The throat is parched, accompanied by intense thirst for cold water.

Stomach

Ravenous hunger. Pain in the cardiac orifice, relieved by pressure. Suffocative feeling while eating.

Abdomen

Flatulence on rising in morning (with headache), rumbling in bowels at night. Abdomen feels swollen, better by belching.

Stool and Anus

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 diarrhoea.

Urinary Organs

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, colorless 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.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica