Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
644.67.16
644.67.16 Cannabis sativa
Name: Cannabis indica.
English: Hemp; Hashish.
Dutch: Hennep.
Use: imperishable.
Introduction
Cannabis indica and cannabis sativa are the same species.
The type of the Indian sadhu.
The Stage 16 is obvious from the behaviour of people smoking marihuana for a long time: they become lazy, do not want to work anymore, neglecting themselves, their clothing and house, everything becomes dirty and in rags.
Mind
Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles them.
Senses, emotions exaggerated to the utmost degree.
Conception of time, space and place is gone; time seems very long, very short; seconds seem ages; a few metres an immense distance.
Excessive loquacity; exuberance, excitement, exaltation, fun and mischief, immoderate laughter, uncontrollable.
Emotional excitement; rapid change of mood.
Mania, must constantly move.
Subconscious or dual nature state.
Confusion of thought and speech.
Speech, wavering, hasty, incoherent, stuttering.
Theorising; ideas crowd upon each other; very forgetful; cannot finish sentence.
Confusion identity.
Anxious depression; moaning and crying.
Fear: insane, death.
Dreams: disagreeable, frightful, disappointed, anxiety; embarrassment; failures, bad luck, misfortune; confused; vivid, lascivious, amorous.
Dreams: dead bodies, people; accidents of others; casualties, fire; prophetic; nightmare.
General
Sensation: as of dropping water.
Weather: > fresh air, > cold water.
Time: < morning.
Desire: sweets; food, ravenous appetite.
Food: < coffee, liquor and tobacco.
Sleep: sleepy, < morning, < daytime; sleepless; obstinate and intractable forms of insomnia.
Physical: < lying on right side; > rest; < lying down; going upstairs.
Body
Energy: great fatigue, as from over-exertion, weary, < morning, < meals.
Vertigo: chronic, as of floating off; sensation of dropping water on head.
Nervous: epilepsy, mania, dementia, delirium tremens, irritable reflexes; catalepsy.
Head: headache, uremic; involuntary shaking of head; migraine; vertex opening and shut, being lifted; shocks through brain; throbbing and weight at occiput.
Eyes: aching; opacity of cornea; cataract; vision misty, blindness; pressure from back of eyes, forward; ophthalmia, scrofulous, gonorrhoeal; fixed; vision letters run together; spectral illusions without terror.
Ears: throbbing, buzzing and ringing, like boiling water; hearing acute, < noise.
Face: expression drowsy, stupid.
Nose: pressure on root.
Mouth: dry; lips glued; grinding of teeth in sleep; saliva thick, frothy, sticky.
Throat: choking, < swallowing; exophthalmic goitre.
Lungs: humid asthma; deep, laboured breathing; oppression; rattling wheezing breathing; cough; expectoration green viscid, bloody.
Heart: palpitation, pulse very slow, > standing; pain piercing; great oppression; painful strokes and tension; sensation as if drops were falling from the heart; pericarditis.
Chest: weight on chest; oppressed.
Stomach: pain, spasm at cardiac orifice, > pressure; distension.
Abdomen: extreme tension in abdominal vessels-feel distended to bursting.
Rectum: constriction; constipation.
Urinary: pain stitching, burning, inflamed, sore, zigzag, urethra, < urination, < touch; carbuncle; urine scanty, urine with slimy mucus, retained, scalding, split stream; spasmodic closure of sphincter, urging painful; stoppage of urethra by mucus and pus; urination straining, dribbling; pain stitching, burning, urethra, < urination; dull pain in region of right kidney.
Male: boozing, white, glairy mucus; satyriasis; chordee; swelling in perineum, as if sitting on a ball; dragging in testicles; phimosis; gonorrhoea, acute, walks with legs apart.
Female: menses absent, profuse, dark, painful, without clots; amenorrhoea; dysmenorrhoea; uterus colic; infertility.
Back: backache, < coition, < menses.
Limbs: pain shoulders and spine, > stooping, < walk erect; thrilling through arms and hands and from knees down; paralysis legs; pain in soles and calves; sharp pains in knees and ankles; very exhausted after a short walk; contraction of fingers after a sprain; dislocation of patella on going upstairs; feet feel heavy on going upstairs; paralytic tearing pains; affections of the ball of the foot and under part of toes.