CANNABIS INDICA


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Cannabis Indica from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Exaltation of spirits, with excessive loquacity

Hallucinations and imaginations innumerable. Fixed ideas.

Imagines he hears music shuts his eyes, and is lost for some time in the most delicious thoughts and fancies.

Uncontrollable laughter, till the face become purple and the back and loins ache.

Constant fear of becoming insane.

Every few moment loses himself, and then wakes up, as it were to those around him.

Exaggeration of duration of time and extent of space; seconds seem ages; a few rods an immense distance.

Frequent involuntary shaking of his head.

On regaining consciousness, violent shocks pass through his brain.

Fixed gaze.

Injection of the vessels of the conjunctiva of both eyes.

While reading the letters in the ears.

Ringing and buzzing in the ears.

Drowsy, stupid look.

Lips feel as if glued together.

Dryness of the mouth and lips.

White thick frothy and sticky saliva.

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

Ravenous hunger.

Pain in the cardiac orifice.

On squeezing the glands a white glairy mucus oozes out.

Burning and scalding before during and after urination.

Stinging pain before, during and after urination.

Profuse colorless urine.

The urine dribbles out after the streams ceases.

Rough cough, scratching the breast immediately under the sternum.

Pulse below the natural standard as low as 4

pain across the shoulders and spine, forcing him to stoop, and preventing him from walking erect.

paralysis of the lower extremities and right arm.

Agreeable thrilling through the arms and hands and in both limbs from the knees down.

Thoroughly exhausted from a short walk.

Excessive sleepiness.

Profuse sticky sweat, standing out in drops on the forehead.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.