Cannabis Sativa Homeopathic Uses – Cannabis Sativa 30

• Voices seem strange
• Trickling sensation, as if hot water were poured over him, or as if cold water were falling from head, from anus, from heart
• Oppression of breathing and palpitation; must stand up. Dislocation of patella on going upstairs

Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Ganja, Marijuana, Indian hemp
Family: Cannabiaceae
Prover: Dr Samuel Hahnemann
Duration of Action: As per Dr Clarke, 1-10 days
Miasmatic Background: Sycosis and syphilis

Introduction and History: Cannabis was well known to the ancients, but they did not seem to be aware of its narcotic properties. Herodotus designates it under kavvabis nueros, and states that the Thracians made a kind of cloth from it. The seeds were thrown upon red hot stones, and the perfumed vapour obtained in this manner was used for a bath, which excited cries of exultation. Cannabis has been employed in allopathic practice chiefly in rheumatism, jaundice, worms, catarrh, burns, measles and smallpox, erysipelas, diarrhoea, dysentery, cystodynia.

Habit and Habitat: It is well known in Bokhara, Persia and Himalayas. It is cultivated throughout India. Father Hammelin found it in illinois in North America. It is cultivated in Russia and norther Europe for commercial purposes; also grown in France and the south of Italy.

Preparation and Parts Used: It is prepared from the flowering tops of both male and female plants.

Constitution and Physiognomy: There is a sycotic and syphilitic background for the troubles.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It mainly acts on the urinary System, male genital organs, kidneys, central nervous system, mind, lungs, heart, gastrointestinal tract, rectum, skin, throat, etc.

Ailments From: Habit of liquor and tobacco.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. Through the cerebrospinal nervous system it acts especially on the mucous membrane of the bladder, urethra and prepuce, and the lungs.
2. Its action on the brain is powerful and marked.
3. Particularly affects the penis producing “over excitement in males”.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Sensation as if drops of water were falling on single parts; on the head, stomach, heart.
2. There is sadness and indifference.
3. Patient is very forgetful, cannot finish a sentence.
4. Vanishing of thoughts, want of words.
5. Ideas seem to stand still; he stares in front of him, as if absorbed in higher thoughts, but is unconscious of them.
6. Time seems too long for him.
7. Laughs immoderately, at mere trifles.
8. He thinks everything is unreal, as if in a dream.
9. Mania, sometimes gay, furious or serious.
10. Voice, including her own seems to come from a distance, her own voice seems strange, as if it were somebody else speaking.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Desires: Desires sweets and cold drinks.

Aversions: Aversion to meat of which she was fond.

Headache: Headache, as if a stone were pressing upon it.

Constipation: Obstinate constipation, causing retention of urine; constriction of anus.

Fingers: There is contraction of finger after a sprain.

Dislocation: Dislocation of patella on going upstairs.

Dyspnoea: Asthma in which the patient can only breath by standing up.

Choking: Choking while swallowing; things go down the wrong way.

Gonorrhoea: Acute inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea in which urethra is very sensitive to touch or pressure; cannot walk with legs close together, it hurts the urethra.

Pains: Pain extending from orifice of urethra backwards, burning-biting, posteriorly more sticking, while urinating. Tearing pains in urethra in a zigzag direction.

Dreams: Dreams of dead. Frightful or erotic dreams.

Vertigo: Vertigo, sensation of water dropping on the head, worse on walking or when standing for some time

Eyes: Dimness of the cornea, opacities, cataract.

Important Characteristic Features

Urinary symptoms: It has a marked action on the urogenital system. Inflammation of kidneys. Ulcerative pain in the kidneys. Intense sexual excitement in both sexes. Much dropsical swelling of the prepuce. Oedema of prepuce with gonorrhoea. Thick yellow gonorrhoeal discharge. Burning in urethra during and after urination. Urethra sensitive, swollen. Chordee. Stitching in urethra when not urinating. Pain extends from meatus back along the urethra while urine flows. Constant, frequent urging to urinate. Involuntary urination. Bloody urine. Spasmodic closure of the neck of the bladder at the close of urination.

Respiratory affections: It acts on the respiratory organs causing catarrh of the chest. Bronchitis with wheezing. Asthma, must have windows open. Green viscid expectoration. Salty sputum. Cough with spitting of blood. Stitching pain in the pleura. Asthma with bladder troubles. Palpitation. Better in open air.

General Modalities

Aggravation: From urinating, in darkness, by exercise, exertion, talking, walking, lying down, going upstairs, at night, after midnight, after a meal, from coffee, liquor, tobacco.

Amelioration: From fresh air, cold water or rest.

Remedy Relationships

Antidotes: Camph, lemon juice.

Compatible: Bell, Hyos, Lyc, Nux-v, Op, Puls, Rhus-t, Verat.

Comparison

Violent burning and drawing pain in the kidneys, bladder and urethra: Cann-s, Berb.

Sensation as if something alive in the abdomen: Cann-s, Thuj, Croc-s.

When swallowing, things go down the wrong way: Anac, Cann-s.

Exaggeration of time: Cann-i, Cann-S, Nux-m.

Cannabis sativa Dosage: It acts from low to highest potencies, in stuttering 30, in acute gonorrhoea 3x, and in chronic cases 30 or 200.

Repetition: Bears repetition well.

Therapeutic Value: Abortus, Acne, Ascites, Chronic vomiting, Colic, Constipation, Cramps, Cystitis, Dysuria, Gastralgia, Gonorrhoea, Gravel, Gutta rosacea, Haematuria, Hysterical conditions, Convulsions, Impotence, Incipient leucoma, Leucorrhoea, Mania, Melancholia, Nephritis, Pannus, Periodical asthma, Phimosis, Pneumonia, Scrofulous ophthalmia, Sterility, Tetanus, Traumatic cataract.