(From vol. i, 3rd edit., 1830.)
(The fresh expressed juice of the tops of the floweringmale or female hemp-plant, mixed with equal parts of alcoho, and after standing some time the clear supernatant fluid decanted off.)
Hitherto only the seeds, generally (rubbed up with water) as emulsion, or decoction, have been used with advantage in the inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea, and in ancient times (by DODONAEUS, SYLVIUS, HERLIZ) in some kinds of jaundice. In the former case of the homoeopathic reason observed in the urinary organs after the administration of hemp to healthy persons, although no physician ever recognized this. The plant itself has only been used as a domestic remedy, but it was much employed in Persian country inns in order to relieve the fatigue of pedestrian travellers (CHARDON, Voyage en perse), for which it is truly homoeopathic as the following cannabis symptoms (269 to 275) demonstrate.
But we may employ the juice of hemp for curative purposes of much more importance in various diseases of the genital organs, of the chest, of the organs of the senses, &c. for which the following observations present the homoeopathic indications.
For a long time I employed the undiluted alcoholic tincture of cannabis, in the dose of the smallest portion of a drop; but the higher and the very highest yet made dilution and potency (X) of it develops the medicinal powers of this plant in a much greater degree.
{HAHNEMANN’s fellow-provers of cannabis were – FRANZ, GROSS, FR. HAHNEMANN, HEMPEL, HUGO, STAPF, TRINKS, HARTLAUB, AND WAHLE.
A few symptoms were taken from the following old-school sources:
HALLER, in Vicat, Mat. Medorrhinum
MORGAGNI, De Sed. Et Causis Morb.
NEUHOLD, in Actea Nat. Cur. iii.
OLEARIUS, Oriental, Reisebeschrieb.
RAMMAZANI, Diatribe de Morb. Artif.
The 1st Edit. Has only 69 symptoms, the 2nd Edit. Has 308, this 3rd Edit. 330.]
CANNABIS
Vertigo when standing and dizziness. [Gss.]
Vertigo when walking, as if he would fall sideways (aft. 1 h.). [Ho.]
Whirling and stupid in the head (immediately). [Gss.]
Giddy and dull in the head. [Ws.]
5. Attacks of vertigo. [NEUHOLD, (Effects of effluvia of hemp, before being dried.) in Actea Nat. Cur., iii, p. 150, et seq.]
Confusion and dulness of the head. [Stf.]
Hesitation and unsteadiness of the mind; overpowering vividnessof the thoughts that arise. [Hl.]
Wanting in reflective power, deficient in imagination, spiritless. [Stf.]
The thoughts seem to stand still; he stares before him; he feels as if his mind were occupied by elevated contemplations, but he does not know what they are; with a slight feeling of aching pain on the parietal bone. [Fz.]
10. He can, no doubt, think of one thing and another, but the ideas remain stationary, as if they stood still, and he looks long at the object on which he was going to work. [Fz.]
He often makes mistakes in writing. [Stf.]
Agreeable warmth in the brain. [Fz.]
Quivering as if in the blood of the head. Chest, and stomach.
Great rush of blood to the head.
15. Rush of blood to the head, which causes an agreeable warmth in it, but with aching pain in the temples. [Fz.]
Throbbing pain that extends forwards into the right temple; at the same time a warmth about the head; the cheeks are red and hot; in the warmth the nausea increases. [Ts. Hb.]
Violent pains in the head [NEUHOLD, l. c.]
Very penetrating headache. [NEUHOLD, l. c.]
Uninterrupted headache all day. [Fz.]
20. Constant pain on the top of the head, as if a stone lay on it. [Fz.]
Confusion of the head; it is heavy and she feels a painful pressure on the forehead and eyelids, so that they are like to close. [Gss.]
Pressure under the frontal protuberance too deep through the brain into the occiput. [Gss.]
When leaning the head against the wall an aching on the opposite side internally in the head. [Gss.]
Pressure in the temples. [Ho.]
25. Aching pain in the right occiputal bone.
Tension first in the occiput then in the sinciput, lastly in the temples (aft. ½ h.). [Ho.]
On moving the head a painful sensation in the head and nape. [Stf.]
Drawing pain in the occiput towards the ears. [Stf.]
Painful constriction of the sinciput. [Gss.]
30. The sinciput is compressed from the borders of the orbits to the temples; not relieved by stooping. [Gss.]
Below the left frontal protuberance a beating outwards, immediately followed by stupefying pressure on that part. [Gss.]
On a small spot of the parietal bone (afterwards on other parts of the head also) a cold feeling as if a drop of cold water fell on it [Gss.]
A creeping in the skin of the hairy scalp.
Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.