Cannabis Indica

COMMON NAME:

      INDIAN HEMP; HASHISH.

Symptoms

      Full of fun and mischief; then perhaps moaning and crying (Pulsatilla) (A.).

LAUGHS IMMODERATELY AT EVERY TRIFLING WORD SPOKEN TO HIM (Apis., Belladonna, Stramonium) (A.).

Anguish, oppression (Arsenicum, Lachesis) (R.).

Constantly theorizing (A.).

Images that he hears music (Belladonna, Calcarea, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Natrum carbonicum, Stramonium) (R.).

VERY FORGETFUL; FORGETS HIS LAST WORDS AND IDEAS; BEGINS SENTENCE, BUT FORGETS WHAT HE INTENDS TO SPEAK (A.).

Shuts his eyes and is lost in delicious thoughts (R.).

EXALTATION OF SPIRITS (Coffea, Phosphorus, Stramonium) (R.).

Inability to recall any thought or event on account of other thoughts crowding his brain (Anacardium, Kali-P., Lac-C.) (A.).

Great apprehension of approaching death (Aconite, Arsenicum, Calcarea, Cimic., Gelsemium, Lac- C., Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Platina, Veratrum) (A.).

Fixed ideas (Anacardium) (R.).

DELIRIUM TREMENS (Agaricus, Arsenicum, Hyoscyamus Kali-Br., Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum, Nux-M., Nux vomica, Opium, Stramonium, Strych., Veratrum) (A.).

EXCESSIVE LOQUACITY (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Stramonium, Veratrum) (A.).

INCOHERENT TALK (Lachesis, Stramonium) (R.).

Double consciousness (Anacardium, Lachesis) (Bl.).

Mania of grandeur (Conium, Phosphorus) (B.).

EXAGGERATION OF TIME AND DISTANCE (A.).

TIMES SEEMS TOO LONG (Argentum nitricum); A FEW SECONDS SEEM AGES (A.).

Produces the most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations (D.).

DISTANCE SEEMS IMMENSE; A FEW RODS SEEM MILES (Gloninum) (A.).

Delusion: head seems to be an inverted pendulum oscillating (K.).

Sees monstrous head on distant wall of the room (K.).

Clairvoyance (Anacardium, Crot-C., Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Lyss., Nux-M., Opium, Phosphorus, Pyrus, Stramonium) (Br.).

Unconscious every few minutes (R.).

SENSATION AS IF THE CALVARIUM WAS OPENING AND SHUTTING (Actea racemosa) (A.).

Stunning pain in the occiput (R.).

Shocks through the brain on regaining consciousness (R.).

Menses: very profuse: painful; too soon; too long (G.).

Violent uterine colic (Belladonna, Caulophyllum, Cimic., Magnesia phos., Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Vib.) (G.).

Sensation of swelling in the perineum, or near the anus, as if sitting on a ball (Sepia).

Increased sexual desire and hysteria during the menstrual period (Bl.).

URETHRITIS WITH PURULENT DISCHARGE, GREAT BURNING AND TENDERNESS ON URINATING (Cantharis); GLANS PENIS DARK RED AND SWOLLEN (D.).

Urinary organs: Urging after micturition, with much Straining; dribbling after stream ceases (Thuja); must wait a long time before the urine flows (Alumn., Arnica, Causticum, Copaiva, Hepar, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia); stitching and burning in the urethra before, during and after urinating (R.).

Chordee (Cantharis, Cannabis sativa, Nux vomica, Pic-Ac.) (D.).

Oozing of white, glossy mucus on squeezing the glans (Hepar, Kali bichromicum, Silicea) (R.).

It is one of our great remedies in gonorrhoea (Bt.).

SPASMODIC CONTRACTION OF THE SPHINCTER VESICAE ON URINATING (D.).

Dull pain in the region of-the right kidney (Br.).

Nephritic colic (Berberis, Lycopodium, Ocim-C., Pulsatilla) (B.).

Buzzing and ringing in the eat (Belladonna, China, Pulsatilla) (R.).

Extreme sensitiveness to noise, (Belladonna, Borax, Coffea, Nux vomica, Stramonium, Sulphur) (Br.).

Hears noises like boiling water (R.).

Involuntary shaking of the head (Agaricus, Alumina, Causticum, Helleborus, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Nat- M., Zincum met.) (Br.).

RAVENOUS APPETITE (Amm-C., Arg-M., Arsenicum, Calcarea phos., China, Cina, Ferrum, Graphites, Iodium, Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Petroleum, Phosphorus, Sulphur( (K.).

Weakness of the extremities, amounting to paralysis (Gelsemium, Kali-P., Plb., Silicea) (R.).

After sexual intercourse, backache (Acid nitricum, Sabal-Ser.) (Br.).

Backache, worse from sitting (Cobalt., Sepia, Zincum met.) (F.).

Satyriasis (Cantharis, Phosphorus, Stramonium) (Br.).

Prolonged thrill during coition (Br.).

Dreams of the dead (Anacardium, Arsenicum, Calcarea, Silicea, Crotalus horridus, Graphites, Kali carb., Magnesia carb., Medorrhinum, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Thuja (K.).

Prophetic dreams (Asafoetida, Borax, Mang., Sulphur).

In renal diseases, Cannabis Ind. is indicated when uraemia sets in, attended by severe headache (F.).

Paralysis, with tingling in the affected parts (Staphysagria) (F.).

Stammering and stuttering (Causticum, Stramonium) (C.).

Oppression of chest, with deep, laboured breathing. He feels as if suffocated, and has to be fanned (Ant-T., Apis, Arsenicum, carb-V., China, Ferrum, Medorrhinum, Sulphur) (C.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From coffee; while eating; from liquor and tobacco; lying on right side; and in the morning.

AMELIORATION:

      From fresh air; from cold water; and from rest.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare: Anacardium, Argentum nitricum, Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Stramonium, and Zincum met.

In urinary diseases ang gonorrhoea, Cantharis has more tenesmus; Cannabis indica more burning and smarting.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)