CANNABIS SATIVA



BACK

Violent aching in the vertebrae, at the base of the chest. Pain in the middle of the back, as if some on were pinching the part with pincers, the pain extending gradually towards the abdomen. The pain in the back frequently arrests the breathing. Drawing in the nape of the neck, along thee cervical vertebrae, from below upwards. Drawing, from the nape of the neck to the ear, resembling a cramp.

ARMS

Pressure, with lacerating, on the top of the shoulders, at intervals. When extending the arm, sensation in the shoulder as if bruised. Crampy contraction of the right hand, going and coming. (The wrist-joint feels dead; he was unable to move his hand.) Cramp-like contraction of the metacarpal bones. Sudden lameness of the hand; the hand trembled when holding anything.

LEGS

Small, white vesicles, with large, red, smooth border, burning like fire, especially when lying on them and touching them; at the end of two days they leave brown-red spots, which are very painful to the touch. Intensely painful, sharp prickings in the flesh of the thigh, near the womb. Continued pressure, in front, on the middle of the thighs, when sitting. Frequent shuddering on the feet, from below upwards. Cramp in the calf when walking. Painful sudden beatings in the dorsum of the foot. Cramp of the tendo-achillis, with violent pains.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.