M.T. Ahmad J.T. Kent
Cannabis Indica is the other name for the hashish grown in the Indian subcontinent. It grows in the valleys of the Himalayas and the lofty grounds of Tibet. For long, it has been used as an intoxicating agent. The users of Cannabis Indica live in the world of their own, as if they are in the heavens. Time virtually comes to a standstill for them and recent events look ancient to them. They feel as if they are in the state of eternity. The symptoms of Cannabis Indica in homoeopathy are described as the patient floating in the atmosphere. The time does not pass or move. In a normal person, this state of inertia would make him feel seriously oppressed. The patient of Cannabis Indica does very little but thinks he has worked for many hours. His subjective feelings and emotions are overwhelming. He feels physically agitated all over, resulting in the shaking of the hands and feet. He feels extremely weak. The brain does not get enough blood. Instead, the face is flushed and the eyes staring. This condition is known as Catalepsy. Cannabis is very useful in the treatment of Catalepsy. The symptoms of Cannabis very much resemble those of Opium, which is the best treatment for Catalepsy. In Cannabis, the sensitivity of the skin decreases. The patient is lured by his own fantasies and imagination. On the contrary, in Hyoscyamus the delusions are frightful and the patient does not enjoy these scenes.
Cannabis addicts find their body divided into two parts. One is their personal self and the other is high up somewhere in the sky. This is why Cannabis addicts are considered as well connected saints.
A Cannabis patient laughs at serious matters also. He cannot control his laughter or crying. He may simply keep on laughing or crying. This indicates that his sickness is well established. The coexistence of laughing and crying like the sun and the shade, associated with a state of euphoria instead of madness, is the symptom of Cannabis Indica. Once the state of intoxication is over, the symptoms are different. Due to the intoxicating effect of Cannabis and damage to the brain, the patient is very scared of death.
A Cannabis patient has a constant fear of becoming insane. He is afraid of the dark. He keeps on making useless arguments. His thinking is irrational. Normally Cannabis addicts do not even complete their sentences. Cannabis in homoeopathic form will be found useful in treating those people who exhibit these symptoms, yet are short of being intoxicated.
The homoeopaths have done the proving and have come to the conclusion that the mind of a Cannabis patient is bombarded with thoughts, and owing to his inability to express them, his speech is rather disjointed. His thoughts are rather stirred-up. His mind is occupied with multiple irrelevant thoughts. He begins to talk normal and then suddenly becomes lost because of a new thought popping up. He becomes excited and starts talking about a new idea. He becomes lost in an imaginary world of his own. He enjoys music. Sometimes he becomes overwhelmed with his emotion and excitement. The Cannabis patient experiences a throbbing kind of headache associated with pounding of the heart. There is heaviness at the nape of the neck and throbbing at the temples.
It is an established fact that the thoughts of one person may be transferred to another person’s mind (telepathy). Some thoughts from a remote mind may be detected through the so-called sixth sense. Many well known scientists also have testified that there is a deep down capability of such detection in the human body. If a person exhibits this kind of symptom due to any mental disorder, Cannabis should be utilised.
A Cannabis patient grinds his teeth during sleep. He stammers while talking. He is not hesitant to drink water but does not like to wash his hands, feet or take a shower with water. His stomach is full of gas which makes the belly tense.
A Cannabis patient passes urine frequently. In Opium, urination is less frequent and the other body secretions also reduce in quantity. In Cannabis, the ailments of the kidney are not unusual. The patient passes urine frequently but has hesitancy in the beginning and at the end of the act of urination. There is burning and mild scalding along the urethra. This also happens in Cannabis Sativa more than in Cannabis Indica. Thus, it is also used in the treatment of Gonorrhoea. Some patients of Gonorrhoea may be cured with one dose of CM Cannabis Sativa. It brings the suppressed Gonorrhoea to the surface and then cures it. Merc Cor CM is also described to be useful in its treatment.
In Cannabis Indica, there is suppression of menstruation and tendency towards abortion. The sexual urge is enhanced. The symptoms pertaining to the heart aggravate at night. There is nightlong sensation of pressure on the chest and suffocation, relieved during the day on walking around. With the onset of night, the symptoms return.
Some people develop humpback due to the weakness of the muscles of the back. Cannabis Indica administered at the beginning of the symptoms will help prevent this deformity of the back. Once the disease is well advanced, there will be no useful effect of this remedy. Cannabis Indica will be of use when the person feels pain in the legs and lower part of the body on walking. The arms and hands feel shaky and then the lower body may also be similarly affected. The legs feel rather numb and weak. Another symptom of Cannabis Indica is that the person feels sleepy yet cannot have good sleep. In Cannabis Indica, the skin feels tense and drawn, as in Opium. The symptoms of Cannabis Indica aggravate in the morning, and from lying on the right side and on smoking tobacco. Fresh air and rest offer relief. The patient feels like going to sleep but cannot.
Potency: usually 30 or very high
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad
CANNABIS INDICA
Mind: A strange ecstatic sensation pervades the body and senses. The limbs and parts seem enlarged. A thrill of beatitude passes over the limbs. The limbs tremble. Great weakness spreads over the body.
The symptoms resemble catalepsy. Anaesthesia and loss of muscular sense. Complaints ameliorated by rest. Exaltation of spirits with mirthfulness. Wonderful imaginations and hallucinations. Wonderful exaggerations of time and space. He seems to be transported through space. He seems to have two existences, or to be conscious of two states, or to exist in two spheres. Delusions. Incoherent speech.
Laughs at serious remarks. Laughs and weeps. Spasmodic laughter, jesting. Moaning and weeping. Fear of death; of insanity; of the dark. Anguish and sadness. Mental symptoms ameliorated by walking in the open air.
An opposite phase prevails with his weakness. He loses his sense and falls. Passes from the rational to the irrational in rapid succession, back and forth. Forgets words and ideas. Unable to finish his sentences.
Thoughts crowding upon each other in such confusion prevent rational speech. His mind is full of unfinished ideas, and phantoms. Wonderful theories constantly form in the mind. Loquacity.
He cannot control the mind to reason rationally upon any subject. Any effort to reason is interrupted by flights of wild, imagination and theory. Vision upon vision passes before the perception. Hears voices, bells, music, in ecstatic confusion.
Feels as if the calvarium were opening and shutting or being lifted and lowered into place. Pulsating pain through the head. Weight in occiput with pulsation.
Shocks in the brain on regaining consciousness, and on waking from sleep. Stitching pains in temples. Tension of scalp. Tenderness of scalp. Dimness of vision. Visual clairvoyance. Letters run together.
Hearing acute. Singing and buzzing in ears; pulsating. Face pale and sunken. Insane look. Stupid look. Sickly, expressionless look. Grinding teeth during sleep. Stammering. Metallic taste. Desire for, and dread of water.
Flatulence, distending abdomen, ameliorated by eructations.
The urinary symptoms are numerous. Inflammation in the kidneys, with burning pain. Soreness in the kidneys, and dull aching. Stitching pains in the kidneys.
Constant or frequent urination. Urine burns on passing. Burning, stinging in urethra, before, during and after urination. This remedy has cured many cases of gonorrhea.
It is useful in the first stage, and cures the symptoms set for Cannabis sativa. Must wait for urine to start. Urine dribbles after urination. Much mucus in the urine. It is useful in chordee during gonorrhoea. The discharge in gonorrhoea is yellow.
Sexual desire increased in both sexes. ErectIons mechanical and painful.
Menstruation profuse and fluid; painful; paroxysmal pains, like labor pains. Uterine spasms. Threatened abortion, threatened with gonorrhea. Menses come every two weeks.
Spasmodic oppression of the chest with suffocation. Palpitation during sleep. Pressing pain, in the heart with suffocation during the Whole night. Stitching pains in the heart. Pulse, slow or rapid and irregular; fluttering; a nervous pulse.
Pain in the back at the menstrual period. Pain across the dorsal region preventing walking erect.
Paralytic weakness of the limbs with trembling and thrilling. Numbness of limbs and soles. Pricking of soles. Rest ameliorates, and motion aggravates. Violent pains through the lower limbs on walking.
Sleepy, but cannot sleep. Starting of limbs during sleep. Dreams of dead bodies. Dreams prophetic. Nightmare.
Prickling of the skin. Formication and itching all over. The skin feels drawn tight over the body. Anaesthesia.
by James Tyler Kent