CANNABIS INDICA

CANNABIS INDICA. [Cann. ind.] Indian Hemp. Philadelphia Provers' Union. Cannabineoe.

► Head feels very heavy, loses consciousness and falls. ► Every few minutes would lose himself and then, again wake up as it were to those around. ► Inability to recall any thought or event, on account of different thoughts crowding on his brain. ► Very absent-minded. ► Exaggeration of duration of time and extent of space ; a few second seem ages ; a few rods an immense distance. ► Great exaltation of mind ; at times with enthusiastic language. ► Sudden transition from one fantasia, when completed, to another ; the general character may remain unchanged ; after vision of great sublimity, usually follow visions of a quiet relaxing and recreating nature. ► Delirium tremens, trembling, hallucinations ; tendency to become furious ; nausea ; unquenchable thirst. ► Hallucinations and fancies innumerable. ► Clairvoyance. ► Full of fun and mischief and laughs immoderately. ► Anguish accompanied by great oppression ; better in open air.

► Vertigo, on rising, with stunning pain in pain in back part of head. ► Fixed gaze. ► Heavy pressure on the brain, forcing him to stoop. ► Dulness of head.

► Dull, drawing pain in forehead, especially over eyes. ► Throbbing, aching pain in the forehead. ► Jerking in right side of forehead, towards the interior and back part of head. ► Aching in both temples, most severe in the right. ► Dull stitching in the right temple. ► Dull, heavy, throbbing pain through the head, with sensation like a heavy blow on back of head and neck. ► Violent shocks through the brain. ► Feels as if the top of head was opening and shutting, and as if calvarium was being lifted (Like Act. rac.).

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

► Visual clairvoyance. ► Sensitiveness of right eye to light. ► Letters run together reading. ► Twinkling, trembling and glimmering, before the eyes. ► Injection of vessels of conjunctiva of both eyes. ► Jerking at the outer angle of the eye and eyelid.

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

► Wearied, exhausted appearance. ► Drowsy and stupid look ; also with cold face. ► Pale face. ► Tense feeling in the facial muscles. ► Skin of face, especially of forehead and chin, feels as if drawn tight.

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

► Gritting and grinding of the teeth while sleeping.

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

► Dryness of the mouth without thirst.

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

► Ravenous hunger. ► Desire for and dread of water.

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

► Pain in the cardiac orifice, relieved by pressure.

► Flatulent rumbling in the bowels, at night. ► Abdomen feels swollen ; relieved by belching.

► Sensation in the anus, as if he were sitting on a ball ; as if the anus and a part of the urethra were filled up by a hard, round body. ► Painless yellow diarrhoea.

► Pain in kidneys when laughing. ► Sharp stitches in both kidneys. ► Aching in the kidneys, keeping him awake at night. ► Burning in the 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 the evening. ► Has to wait sometime before the urine flows. ► Has of force out the last drops with the hands. ► The urine dribbles out after the stream ceases. ► Urging to urinate, but cannot pass a drop. ► Burning and scalding, or stinging pain in the urethra, before, during and after urination.

► Sexual desire excessively increased. ► 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 the penis and urethra, accompanied by frequent calls to urinate. ► Itching of the glans penis.

► Sexual desire increased. ► Very profuse menstruation. ► Violent uterine colic ; nervous agitation, or cold hands and feet.

► Inability to measure the compass and volume of the voice when speaking.

► It requires great effort to take a deep inspiration. ► Oppression of chest, with deep, labored breathing, worse when ascending. ► Feels as if suffocated ; has to be fanned.

► Rough cough with scraping under the sternum. ► Hard, dry cough.

► Stitches extending from both nipples through the chest.

► Palpitation of heart awaking from sleep. ► Pressing pain in the heart with dyspnoea 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 slow (as low as 46) ; rapid (as high as 160).

► Pain across the shoulders and spine, must stoop, cannot walk erect.

► Agreeable thrilling through the arms and hands.

► Agreeable thrilling, from the knees down. ► Is unable to walk up stairs on account of almost entire paralysis of limbs, with stiffness and tired aching in knees. ► On attempting to walk he experienced intensely violent pins, as if he trod on a number of spikes, which penetrated the soles and ran upwards through the limbs to the hips ; worse in right limb and accompanied by drawing calves. ► Shooting pains in joints of toes of left foot, worse in great toe. ► Aching and stitching pain in the ball of the left great toe.

► Paralysis of lower limbs and right arm.

► Rest gives general relief. ► Great desire to lie down in the daytime. ► Walking : 22, 33, 36. Ascending : 26, 33. Sitting : 22. Stooping : 31. Rising : 2.

► Thoroughly exhausted after a short walk. ► Felt so weak that he could scarcely speak, and soon feel into a deep sleep. ► Hysterical catalepsy. ► Emprosthotonos, loss of consciousness.

► Excessive sleepiness. ► Starting of limbs while sleeping, saucing him to wake. ► Voluptuous dreams, erections and profuse seminal emissions. ► Dreams : of danger and perils encountered ; of dead bodies ; prophetic ; vexatious. ► Nightmare every night as soon as he falls asleep.

► Afternoon : 40. Evening : 21. Night : 19, 21, 29, 37.

► Is not so sensitive to cold as usual. ► Damp cold : 21.

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

► Right : 3, 5, 33, 34. Left : 33.

► An indescribable "queer" feeling pervades the whole body. ► Feeling of lightness or buoyancy ; as if he was raised from the ground and could fly away. ► Sensation as if single parts became larger and thicker.

► Touch : 4. Pressure : 17. Must loosen the clothes : 15. Riding : 22.

► Formication or itching on various parts. ► Tension in the skin of head and face. ► Skin clammy, insensible.

► Affects persons of nervous and sanguine temperament most ; the bilious nearly as much ; the lymphatic but slightly.