M.T. Ahmad J.T. Kent
The symptoms of Cannabis Sativa very much resemble those of Cannabis Indica. In fact, many homoeopaths use one for the other, however, they also tend to annul each other.
The symptoms of Cannabis Sativa are more intense than those of Cannabis Indica. For example, the double personality in Cannabis Indica is well known. The patient feels confident that he belongs to both the worlds. On the other hand, in Cannabis Sativa, the patient has persistent doubt of his personal being. He cannot definitely place himself. He loses control over his speech and writing. While writing, he frequently changes the words. His speech is incomprehensible. There is frequent and unnecessary mixing up of words. While talking, he feels as if somebody else is talking. Psychiatrists have extensively studied this condition but cannot cure it and just prescribe tranquilizers. In homoeopathy however, the appropriate remedy can cure the patient.
A Cannabis Sativa patient feels as if drops of cold water are falling on the top or the back of his head.
The eyes of a Cannabis Sativa patient are congested with blood. The veins become visibly prominent in and around the eyes. The nose also bleeds. One cheek is red, while the other is pale. This also occurs in Pulsatilla. In Cannabis Sativa, there is dryness of the mouth and throat. There is a feeling of choking and difficulty in swallowing. The patient feels awfully tired.
The kidneys get inflamed. Urine comes in drops, associated with a burning sensation (scalding micturition). At the end of the micturition, there is a sensation of severe stitching type of pain. The severe spasm at the urethra and the meatus cause great discomfort. There is pain in the urethra, which the patient feels while walking as well.
Asthma too is a symptom of Cannabis Sativa, associated with rumbling over the chest. In fresh air, the patient feels relieved. Cannabis Sativa may very well be the remedy for symptoms of the bladder associated with asthma. In fact, many chest problems are the result of suppression of gonorrhoea causing asthma and its deleterious effect on the urethra. Cannabis Sativa is very useful in treating the urethritis caused by gonorrhoea associated with symptoms of asthma.
In Cannabis Sativa, the patient feels as if drops of water are pouring out of the heart. There is palpitation along with the feeling of pain. Knees hurt while going up the stairs and the legs feel heavy. Lying down, also aggravates the symptoms.
Antidote: Camphor
Potency: 30
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad
CANNABIS SATIVA
The resemblance of this remedy to Cannabis Indica is remarkable and has led to a belief that they are identical.
The one has often been substituted for the other, and has cured symptoms produced by the other. Their mental and urinary symptoms are very similar. The sensation of opening and shutting has been cured by both remedies.
Things seem strange and unreal. He seems as though in a dream. Confusion is to his personal identity. Makes mistakes in writing and speaking, and misunderstands what he reads and hears said.
Sounds in the room seem to come from a distance. When he speaks it seems as though some one else were speaking (Alum). Seems as though her senses would vanish.
Despondent in forenoon, lively in the afternoon. Fear of going to bed. Hysterical feeling in the throat. Anxiety in the stomach. Confusion of mind and vertigo.
Rush of blood to the head, as though it came from the stomach. Opening and shutting of the vortex begins on waking, lasts all day, and is worse from noise. Sensation of drops of cold water on scalp. Formication.
Inflammation of the conjunctiva and varicose veins. Sensation of sand in the eyes. Noises in the ears.
Sensation of enlargement of the nose. Epistaxis. Pressure on the root of the nose. Dryness in the nose. One cheek red, the other pale. Nasty taste. Difficult speech. Dry mouth and throat. Aversion to meat. Eructations, bitter, sour, empty.
Inflammation of the kidneys. Ulcerative pains in the kidneys. Oedema of the prepuce with gonorrhoea. Thick yellow gonorrhoeal discharge. Burning in the urethra during and after urination. Stitching in the urethra while the urine flows. Urethra sensitive, swollen.
Chordee. Burning at starting and closing of urination. Stitching in urethra when not urinating. Most difficult and painful urination. Pain that extends from meatus back along the urethra while urine flows.
Pressing out feeling at the orifice of the urethra after urination in a woman. Violent urging to urinate. Constant or frequent urging to urinate. Involuntary urination. Violent pain at the close of urination. Bloody urine.
Spasmodic closure of the neck of the bladder at the close of urination. Inflammation of the urethra. Inflammation and much swelling of the orifice of the urethra with burning pain during urination in the female.
Intense sexual excitement in both sexes. Much dropsical swelling of the prepuce. To the female it has a reputation for sterility. Menses profuse.
Leucorrhoea in the little girls (Sepia). Gonorrhoea. Uterine haemorrhage after labor. Threatened abortion.
Catarrh of the chest. Bronchitis with wheezing. Asthma must have window open. Green viscid expectoration. Salty sputum. Cough, with blood spitting. Stitching pains in the pleura. Asthma with bladder troubles. Palpitation.
Pressure as with a sharp point in the coccyx. Drawing pains in tendon Achilles. Stitching in the skin all over while perspiring. Numbness of finger tips.
by James Tyler Kent