Cannabis Indica cann-i.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Very forgetful : forgets his last words and ideas; begins a sentence, forgets what he intends to speak; inability to recall any thought or event on account of other thoughts crowding the brain (Anac., Lac. c.). Constantly theorizing. Laughs immoderately at every trifling word spoken to him. Full of fun and mischief, then perhaps moaning and crying. Great apprehension of approaching death. Delirium tremens; excessive loquacity; exaggeration of time and distance. Time seems too long (Arg. n.); a few seconds seem ages. Distance seems immense; a few rods seems miles. Sensation as it the cavarium was opening and shutting (Act.). Sensation of swelling in the perineum or near the anus, as if sitting on a ball (with great quantities of ropy mucus in urine, Cinch.).

Relations

Compare: Bell., Hyos;, Stram.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

Mental

Very forgetful; cannot finish a sentence, forgets what he intended to say. Great exuberance of spirits; immoderate laughing at any trifle; sadness. Moaning; sense of horror. Brain full of conflicting thoughts. Time seems long; space or distance seems immense.

Head

Right side; also back of, with feeling of heavy weight. Severe headache; feels as if top of head were opening and shutting. and as if calvarium were being lifted.

Sexual

Menses very profuse; painful; too soon; too long. Violent uterine colic; backache worse when unwell.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Exaggeration of duration of time and extent of space, seconds seem ages, and a few rods an immense distance. Agreeable thrilling from the knees down, with a sensation as if a bird's claw were clasping the knees.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Hashish

General

Inhibits the higher faculties and stimulates the imagination to a remarkable degree without any marked stimulation of the lower or animal instinct. A condition of intense exaltation, in which all perceptions and conceptions, all sensations and all emotions are exaggerated to the utmost degree.

Subconscious or dual nature state. Apparently under the control of the second self, but, the original self, prevents the performance of acts which are under the domination of the second self. Apparently the two natures cannot act independently, one acting as a check, upon the other (Effects of one Dram doses by Dr. Albert Schneider).

The experimenter feels ever and anon that he is distinct from the subject of the hashish dream and can think rationally.

Produces the most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations, exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of space, being most characteristic. Conception of time, space and place is gone. Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles. Ideas crowd upon each other. Has great soothing influence in many nervous disorders, like epilepsy, mania, dementia, delirium tremens, and irritable reflexes. Exophthalmic goitre. Catalepsy.

Mind

Excessive loquacity; exuberance of spirits. Time seems too long; seconds seem ages; a few rods an immense distance. Constantly theorizing. Anxious depression; constant fear of becoming insane. Mania, must constantly move. Very forgetful; cannot finish sentence. Is lost in delicious thought. Uncontrollable laughter. Delirium tremens. Clairvoyance. Emotional excitement; rapid change of mood. Cannot realize her identity, chronic vertigo as of floating off.

Head

Feels as if top of head were opening and shutting and as if calvarium were being lifted. Shocks through brain (Aloe; Coca). Uræmic headache. Throbbing and weight at occiput. Headache with flatulence. Involuntary shaking of head. Migraine attack preceded by unusual excitement with loquacity.

Eyes

Fixed. Letters run together when reading. Clairvoyance. Spectral illusions without terror.

Ears

Throbbing, buzzing, and ringing. Noise like boiling water. Extreme sensitiveness to noise.

Face

Expression drowsy and stupid. Lips glued together. Grinding of teeth in sleep. Mouth and lips dry. Saliva thick, frothy, and sticky.

Stomach

Increased appetite. Pain at cardiac orifice; better, pressure. Distention. Pyloric spasm. Sensation of extreme tension in abdominal vessels-feel distended to bursting.

Rectum

Sensation in anus as if sitting on a ball.

Urinary

Urine loaded with slimy mucus. Must strain; dribbling; has to wait some time before the urine flows. Stitches and burning in urethra. Dull pain in region of right kidney.

Male

After sexual intercourse, backache. Oozing of white, glairy mucus from glans. Satyriasis. Prolonged thrill. Chordee. Sensation of swelling in perineum or near anus, as if sitting on a ball.

Female

Menses profuse, dark, painful, without clots. Backache during menses. Uterine colic, with great nervous agitation and sleeplessness. Sterility (Borax). Dysmenorrhœa with sexual desire.

Respiratory

Humid asthma. Chest oppressed with deep, labored breathing.

Heart

Palpitation awakes him. Piercing pain, with great oppression. Pulse very slow (Dig; Kalmia; Apocyn).

Extremities

Pain across shoulders and spine; must stoop; cannot walk erect. Thrilling through arms and hands, and from knees down. Entire paralysis of the lower extremities. Pain in soles and calves; sharp pains in knees and ankles; very exhausted after a short walk.

Sleep

Very sleepy, but unable to do so. Obstinate and intractable forms of insomnia. Catalepsy. Dreams of dead bodies; prophetic. Nightmare.

Modalities

Worse, morning; from coffee, liquor and tobacco; lying on right side. Better from fresh air, cold water, rest.

Relationship

Bellad; Hyoscy; Stram; Laches; Agaric; Anhalon (time sense disordered; time periods enormously overestimated, thus, minutes seem hours, etc).

Dose

Tincture and low attenuations.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

A lady with dropsy, consequent on valvular heart disease, after being relieved of the bloating, was suddenly unable to talk. In answer to a question she could begin a sentence, but could not finish it, because she could not remember what she intended to say. She was very impatient about it and would cry, but could not finish the sentence, but could signify her assent if it was finished by some one else for her. This continued for several days, or until she received Cannabis Indica, when she rapidly recovered her power to express herself. This is all the experience I have had with this remedy that is worth relating.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

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. Cannabinaceæ. Tincture of young leaves and twigs.

Clinical

Catalepsy . Chordee. Clairvoyance. Delirium tremens. Delusions . Epilepsy. Gonorrhœa. Headache. Mania . Menorrhagia. Paralysis . Prostatitis. Satyriasis. Stammering. Uræmia. 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 illimitable. 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 whilst 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. Gonorrhœa; 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, > deep breathing. Warmth of spine extending to head. Backache < 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 over-dose 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. < Lying down quietly: then thought succeeded thought only to be immediately blotted out: no inclination to sleep. > 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: Nit. ac. (to jarring and rumbling of waggon in street); Coff. (to all sounds); Borax (slightest noise, fall of door latch, rumpling of paper, rustling of silk). Asar. (to scratching of linen or-silk, or even the thought of it). Levitation (Asar., Calc., Coccul., Phos. ac., Sil., Sticta, Sul., Thu.). As if in a dream (Ambr., Anac., Calc., Con., Cup., Med., Rhe., Stram., Val., Ver., Zn. ─ the sensation of time being interminable distinguishes Can. i. from the others). Horror of darkness (Am. m., Bar. c., Calc., Carb. an., Phos., Stram., Stro., Val.). Noise like a crash or explosion in head (Alo.).

Mind

Exaltation of spirit, with excessive loquacity. ─ Full of fun and mischief, and laughs immoderately. ─ Hallucinations and imaginations innumerable. ─ Anguish, accompanied by great oppression: > 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 absentminded. ─ Every few minutes he would lose himself, and then wake up, as it were, to those around him. ─ Constantly theorising. ─ 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, esp. over the eyes. ─ Throbbing, aching pain in forehead. ─ Jerking in r. 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 r. ─ Dull stitching in the r. temple. ─ Pain in the whole r. 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 fulness 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, esp. 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; > 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 diarrhœa.

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, colourless 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.

Male Sexual Organs

Sexual desire excessively increased. ─ Satyriasis; priapism. ─ Erections not caused by amorous thoughts. ─ Violent painful erections. ─ Penis relaxed and shrunken. ─ Itching in the glans penis. ─ Sharp pricking, like needles, in urethra, so severe as to send a thrill to cheeks and hands.

Female Sexual Organs

Very profuse menstruation; painful, dark but without clots. ─ Spasmodic uterine colic, pains returning like labour pains; great agitation and sleeplessness. ─ Threatened miscarriage in 8th month; burning on micturition with purulent discharge.

Respiratory Organs

Rough cough, with scraping immediately under the sternum. ─ It requires a great effort to take a deep inspiration.

Chest

Oppression of chest, with deep, laboured breathing. ─ He feels as if suffocated, and has to be fanned. ─ Stitches extending from both nipples through chest.

Heart and Pulse

Palpitation of the heart, awaking from sleep. ─ Pressing pain in the heart, with dyspnœa the whole night. Piercing pain in the heart. ─ Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart. ─ Stitches in the heart, accompanied by great oppression; the latter relieved by deep breathing. ─ Pulse very slow (as low as 46).

Neck and Back

Pain across the shoulders and spine; must stoop, cannot walk erect. ─ Chin suddenly drawn down to sternum, lasting three days. ─ Warmth in spine extending to head. ─ Backache, < during menses, which occur every two weeks and are scanty.

Upper Limbs

Agreeable thrilling through the arms and hands. ─ Paralysis of the r. arm. ─ Coldness of r. hand, with stiffness and numbness of r. thumb.

Lower Limbs

Entire paralysis of the lower extremities. ─ Weariness in limbs, and stiffness and aching in knees; almost paralysis. ─ Agreeable thrilling from the knees down, with a sensation as if a bird's claws were clasping the knees. ─ On attempting to walk, intensely violent pain as if treading on spikes, which penetrated the soles, and ran upward through the limbs to the hips; worse in r. limb, and accompanied by drawing pains in both calves. ─ Shooting pains in the joints of the toes of l. foot; worse in great toe; aching and stitching pain in ball of l. great toe.

Generalities

Great desire to lie down in the daytime. ─ Thoroughly exhausted after a short walk. ─ Felt so weak that he could scarcely speak, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Sleep

Excessive sleepiness; sound sleep, with melancholy dreams. ─ Starting of the limbs while sleeping, causing him to awake. ─ Voluptuous dreams, with erections and profuse seminal emissions. ─ Talks during sleep. ─ Gritting teeth during sleep. ─ Dreams prophetic; vexatious; of dead bodies, of danger, and of perils to be encountered. ─ Nightmare every night as soon as he falls asleep.

Fever

Loss of animal heat. ─ General chilliness. ─ Coldness of the face, nose, and hands after dinner. ─ Profuse sticky sweat, standing out in drops on his forehead.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

East Indian Hemp. Cannabineæ.

Mind

Head feels very heavy, loses consciousness and falls.
Every few moments he would lose himself, and wake up, as it were, to those around him.
He forgot his last words and ideas, and spoke in a low tone with a thick voice, as if tired.
He begins a sentence, but cannot finish it, because he forgets what he intends to write or speak.
Inability to recall any thought or event, on account of different thoughts crowding on his brain.
He could not read, partly on account of dreamy spells, and partly because he had not full power of vision.
Very absent-minded.
Constantly theorizing.
His mind is filled with ridiculous speculative ideas.
Exaltation of spirits, with excessive loquacity.
Great exaltation of mind ; at times with enthusiastic language.
Exaltation of spirits, with great gayety and disposition to laugh at the merest trifle.
He could not fix his thoughts upon one subject.
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.
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.
Exaggeration of duration of time and extent of space ; a few seconds seem ages ; a few rods an immense distance. θ Delirium tremens.
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.
A sense of having two existences ; double consciousness.
Fixed ideas.
Incoherent talking.
Laughs indiscriminately at every word said to him.
Uncontrollable laughter, till the face becomes purple, and back and loins ache.
Full of fun and mischief, and laughs immoderately.
Moaning and crying.
Great apprehension of approaching death.
He was in constant fear he would become insane.
Horror of darkness.
Anguish, accompanied by great oppression, > in open air.
Great mental agitation, anxiety, irritability, nervousness. θ Menorrhagia.
Nervous ; she trembles at least source of agitation. θ Headache.

Sensorium

Vertigo on rising, with stunning pain in back part of head, and he falls.
Heavy pressure on brain, forcing him to stoop.
Dulness of head.

Inner head

Assists brain to labor after a debauch.
Violent shocks pass through brain, on regaining consciousness.
Heavy insurmountable pressure on brain, forcing him to stoop.
Dull drawing pain in forehead, especially over eyes.
Throbbing aching pain in forehead.
Jerking in right side of forehead, towards interior and back part of head.
Severe stitch in right temple, gradually changing to pressive pain.
Dull stitching in right temple.
Pain in whole right side of head.
Aching in both temples, most severe in right.
A sensation as of brain boiling over and lifting cranial arch like lid of a teakettle.
Feels as if top of head was opening and shutting, and as if calvarium was being lifted.
Dull, heavy, throbbing pain through head, with a sensation like a heavy blow on back of head and neck.
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.
Frequent involuntary shaking of his head.
Headache, accompanied by flatulence, continuing until he can pass wind upward or downward ; throbbing of occiput.
(OBS :) Megrim, or sick headache.

Outer head

Scalp and skin of forehead felt as though tightly stretched over skull.
Crawling in scalp, on top of head.
Soreness of scalp to touch.

Sight and eyes

Dimness of vision.
Visual clairvoyance.
Sensitiveness of right eye to light.
Letters run together while reading.
Twinkling, trembling and glimmering before eyes.
Eyes are bright and shiny.
Injection of vessels of conjunctiva of both eyes.
Jerking in external corner of eye and eyelid.

Hearing and ears

Hearing very acute.
Noise in ears ; like water boiling.
Periodical singing in ears during his dreamy spells, ceasing when he came to himself.
Ringing and buzzing in ears.
Throbbing and fulness in both ears.
Aching in both ears.

Upper face

Countenance dejected and careworn. θ Headache.
Wearied, exhausted appearance.
Drowsy and stupid look.
Pale face.
Tense feeling in facial muscles.
Skin of face, especially of forehead and chin, feels as if drawn tight.

Lower face

Dryness of mouth and lips.
Lips feel as if glued together.

Teeth and gums

Gritting and grinding of teeth while sleeping.

Taste, speech, tongue

Every article of food is extremely palatable.
Metallic taste.
Stammering and stuttering.

Inner mouth

Dryness of mouth, without thirst.
White, thick, frothy, and sticky saliva.

Palate and throat

Throat is parched, accompanied by intense thirst for cold water.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Ravenous hunger, not appeased by food.
Desire for and dread of water.

Eating and drinking

While eating, his stomach felt swollen and his chest oppressed, as if he would suffocate ; was forced to loosen his clothes.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pain in cardiac orifice, > by pressure.
(In sick :) Sensation of warmth in stomach. θ Gonorrhœa.

Abdomen and loins

Flatulence on rising in morning. θ Headache.
Flatulent rumbling in bowels, at night.
Abdomen feels swollen ; > by belching.

Stools and rectum

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.
Painless yellow diarrhœa.

Urinary organs

Constant dull pain in region of right kidney, and in glans penis.
Pain in kidneys when laughing.
Sharp stitches in both kidneys.
Aching in kidneys, keeping him awake at night.
Burning in kidneys Urine : loaded with slimy mucus, after exposure to damp cold ; pain in bladder and urethra ; profuse, colorless.
Urinates frequently, but in small quantity.
Frequent micturition, with burning pain, in evening.
Has to wait some time before urine flows.
Has to force out last few drops with hand.
Urine dribbles out after stream ceases.
Urging to urinate, with much straining, but cannot pass a drop.
Burning and scalding, or stinging pain in urethra, before, during and after urination.

Male sexual organs

Sexual desire excessively increased ; satyriasis ; priapism.
Erections : while riding, walking, and also while sitting still ; not caused by amorous thoughts ; violent ; painful.
Penis relaxed and shrunken.
Uneasiness, with burning sensation in penis and urethra, accompanied by frequent calls to urinate.
Sharp prickings, like needles, in urethra, so severe as to send a thrill to cheeks and hands.
Gonorrhœa : unaccompanied by pain ; lightheadedness ; slight tingling, with inflammation around meatus ; slight burning during micturition ; discharge yellowish-white and very profuse.
Feeling in urethra as if there was a gonorrhœal discharge.
On squeezing glans penis, a white glairy mucus oozes out.
Chordee.
Itching of glans penis.

Female sexual organs

Sexual desire increased.
Very profuse menstruation.
Menses very profuse and painful, dark, but without clots ; lasting eighteen days. θ Menorrhagia.
Violent uterine colic, with cramps in extremities. θ Post post-partum hemorrhage.
Spasmodic uterine colic ; pains returning like labor-pains ; great agitation and sleeplessness. θ Menorrhagia.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Threatened miscarriage, with discharge of blood from vagina, in eighth month of pregnancy ; burning in making water, with purulent discharge. θ Gonorrhœa.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Inability to measure compass and volume of voice when speaking.

Respiration

It requires great effort to take a deep inspiration.
Oppression of chest, with deep, labored breathing, < when ascending.
Feels as if suffocating, and has to be fanned.

Cough

Rough cough, with scraping immediately under sternum.
Hard, dry cough.

Inner chest and lungs

Stitches extending from both nipples through chest.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation of heart, which awakens from sleep.
Pressing pain in heart, with dyspnœa, whole night.
Painful sticking as with prongs of a fork in heart.
Stitches in heart, accompanied by great oppression ; the latter > by deep breathing.
Pulse slow (as low as 46) ; rapid (as high as 160).

Neck and back

Chin suddenly drawn down to sternum, lasting three or four days, when it relaxed.
Pain across shoulders and spine ; must stoop, cannot walk erect.
Pain with drawing through lumbar vertebræ, on standing.
(In sick :) Warmth in spine extending to head.
Backache, < catamenial periods, which occur every two weeks, and are scanty.

Upper limbs

Agreeable thrilling through arms and hands.
Coldness of right hand, with stiffness and numbness of right thumb.

Lower limbs

Right limb feels paralyzed when walking.
Weariness in both limbs, almost amounting to paralysis ; < in left.
Agreeable thrilling in both limbs, from knees down, with a sensation as if a bird's claws were clasping knees.
Is unable to walk up-stairs on account of an almost entire paralysis of limbs, with stiffness and tired aching in both knees.
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 ; < in right limb and accompanied by drawing pains in both calves.
Shooting pains in joints of toes of left foot, < in great toe.
Aching and stitching pain in ball of left great toe.
Numb feeling of sole of left foot, then whole foot, increasing to a numbness of whole limb.
Pricking in feet.

Limbs in general

Heaviness of arms and legs.
Paralysis of lower limbs and right arm.

Rest. position. motion

Rest gives general relief ; great desire to lie down in daytime.
Standing : pain, with drawing through lumbar vertebræ.
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

Trembling with mental weakness.
Thoroughly exhausted after a short walk.
Felt so weak that he could scarcely speak, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
Catalepsy.
Exaltation of all powers of mind and body before fit. θ Epilepsy.

Sleep

Desire to sleep, but inability to do so.
Excessive sleepiness ; great desire to lie down in daytime.
Felt so weak that he could scarcely speak, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
Starting of limbs while sleeping, which awoke him, when he feared he would have a fit.
Talking during sleep.
Voluptuous dreams, with erections and profuse seminal emissions.
Dreams : of danger, and of perils encountered ; of dead bodies ; prophetic ; vexatious ; melancholy.
In daytime, dreams, returning periodically, or dreamy attacks.
Nightmare every night, as soon as he falls asleep.

Time

Daytime : dreams.
Midday : heavy weight at back of head.
Evening : burning pain ; frequent micturition.

Temperature and weather

Is not so sensitive to cold as usual.
Damp, cold weather : urine loaded with slimy mucus.

Fever

Loss of animal heat.
General chilliness.
Coldness of face, nose and hands, after dinner.
Increased heat of body.
Profuse sticky sweat standing out in drops on his forehead.

Attacks, periodicity

Every two weeks ; backache, < Catamenial periods.

Locality and direction

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.
Left : weariness and paralysis of legs ; numb feeling in foot.

Sensations

An indescribably "queer" feeling pervades whole body.
Feeling of lightness or buoyancy ; as if he was raised from ground and could fly away.
Sensation as if single parts became larger and thicker.
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.
Stitch : right temple ; sharp, in both kidneys ; extending from both nipples through chest ; in heart ; in ball of left great toe.
Sticking : as with prongs of a fork in heart.
Stinging : pain in urethra.
Pricking : in feet ; over whole body ; sharp like needles in urethra.
Shooting : pains in joints of toes of left foot.
Burning : in kidneys ; frequent micturition with burning ; and scalding in urethra ; in penis ; of skin.
Jerking : in right side of forehead ; in external corner of eye and eyelid.
Drawing : pain in forehead ; through lumbar vertebræ ; pain in both calves.
Pressive : pain right temple ; pain in heart.
Pressure : on rain ; on skin excites burning.
Stunning : pain in back part of head.
Aching : pain in ball of left great toe ; in both temples ; in both ears ; in kidneys ; tired in both knees.
Soreness : of scalp to touch.
Dull : pain through head ; in region of right kidney and in glans penis.
Pain : in whole side of head ; in bladder and urethra ; across shoulders ; in cardiac orifice ; in kidneys.
Throbbing : aching pain in forehead ; pain through head ; in both ears.
Thrilling : agreeable, through arms and hands ; in both limbs.
Numbness : of right thumb ; of sole of left toe ; over whole body ; of left foot.
Formication : or itching on various parts.
Crawling : in scalp ; on top of head.
Paralyzed sensation : right limb ; right arm.
Tense : feeling in facial muscles ; skin of face feels as if drawn tight ; skin of head.
Heavy : pain through head ; arms and legs.
Weight : at back of head.
Warmth : in stomach ; in spine, extending to head.
Coldness : of right hand.
Itching : of glans penis Dryness : of mouth and lips.

Tissues

Loss of muscular sense ; anesthesia.
Pressure : on skin excites burning.

Skin

Pricking over whole body with numbness, often pleasurable.
Formication or itching on various parts.
Tension in skin of head and face.
Is very anemic. θ Menorrhagia Pressure on skin excites burning.
Anesthesia ; while standing is not conscious of touching ground.

Stage of life, constitution

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.
A woman, æt. 30. θ Menorrhagia.
Mother of three children. θ Menorrhagia.

Relations

Compare Cann. sat ., especially Chapter 48, for drug relations, as the comparisons doubtless apply to Cann. ind .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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Mind

A strange ecstatic sensation pervades the body and senses. The limbs and parts seem enlarged. A thrill of beatitude passes over the limbs. The limbs tremble. Great weakness spreads over the body.

The symptoms resemble catalepsy. Anaesthesia and loss of muscular sense. Complaints ameliorated by rest. Exaltation of spirits with mirthfulness. Wonderful imaginations and hallucinations. Wonderful exaggerations of time and space. He seems to be transported through space. He seems to have two existences, or to be conscious of two states, or to exist in two spheres. Delusions. Incoherent speech.

Laughs at serious remarks. Laughs and weeps. Spasmodic laughter, jesting. Moaning and weeping. Fear of death; of insanity; of the dark. Anguish and sadness. Mental symptoms ameliorated by walking in the open air.

An opposite phase prevails with his weakness. He loses his sense and falls. Passes from the rational to the irrational in rapid succession, back and forth. Forgets words and ideas. Unable to finish his sentences.

Thoughts crowding upon each other in such confusion prevent rational speech. His mind is full of unfinished ideas, and phantoms. Wonderful theories constantly form in the mind. Loquacity.

He cannot control the mind to reason rationally upon any subject. Any effort to reason is interrupted by flights of wild, imagination and theory. Vision upon vision passes before the perception. Hears voices, bells, music, in ecstatic confusion.

Feels as if the calvarium were opening and shutting or being lifted and lowered into place. Pulsating pain through the head. Weight in occiput with pulsation.

Shocks in the brain on regaining consciousness, and on waking from sleep. Stitching pains in temples. Tension of scalp. Tenderness of scalp. Dimness of vision. Visual clairvoyance. Letters run together.

Hearing acute. Singing and buzzing in ears; pulsating. Face pale and sunken. Insane look. Stupid look. Sickly, expressionless look. Grinding teeth during sleep. Stammering. Metallic taste. Desire for, and dread of water.

Flatulence, distending abdomen, ameliorated by eructations.

The urinary symptoms are numerous. Inflammation in the kidneys, with burning pain. Soreness in the kidneys, and dull aching. Stitching pains in the kidneys.

Constant or frequent urination. Urine burns on passing. Burning, stinging in urethra, before, during and after urination. This remedy has cured many cases of gonorrhea.

It is useful in the first stage, and cures the symptoms set for Cannabis sativa. Must wait for urine to start. Urine dribbles after urination. Much mucus in the urine. It is useful in chordee during gonorrhoea. The discharge in gonorrhoea is yellow.

Sexual desire increased in both sexes. Erections mechanical and painful.

Menstruation profuse and fluid; painful; paroxysmal pains, like labor pains. Uterine spasms. Threatened abortion, threatened with gonorrhea. Menses come every two weeks.

Spasmodic oppression of the chest with suffocation. Palpitation during sleep. Pressing pain, in the heart with suffocation during the Whole night. Stitching pains in the heart. Pulse, slow or rapid and irregular; fluttering; a nervous pulse.

Pain in the back at the menstrual period. Pain across the dorsal region preventing walking erect.

Paralytic weakness of the limbs with trembling and thrilling. Numbness of limbs and soles. Pricking of soles. Rest ameliorates, and motion aggravates. Violent pains through the lower limbs on walking.

Sleepy, but cannot sleep. Starting of limbs during sleep. Dreams of dead bodies. Dreams prophetic. Nightmare.

Prickling of the skin. Formication and itching all over. The skin feels drawn tight over the body. Anaesthesia.