# Cannabis Indica

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Source:  Derived  from  the  flowering  tops  of  Cannabis  indica (Indian  hemp),  a  plant  in  the. Cannabaceae  family,  prepared  for  homeopathic  use  through  maceration,  serial  dilution,  and. succussion to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for neurological, psychological, and. sensory disorders, particularly those involving altered perception, confusion, and restlessness. It is. noted for symptoms such as mental disorientation, time-space distortion, and nervous exhaustion,. often  aggravated  by  mental  exertion,  darkness,  or  stimulants,  and  ameliorated  by  rest,  quiet. environments, or fresh air. Modern Context: Indicated for neurological conditions (e.g., migraines, vertigo), psychological. disorders (e.g., anxiety, dissociation),  sleep disturbances  (e.g., insomnia, nightmares),  sensory. disorders (e.g., hyperesthesia, tinnitus), and musculoskeletal complaints (e.g., neuralgia, muscle. spasms). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by  mental confusion ,. sensory  hypersensitivity,  anxiety,  or  nervous  exhaustion,  typically  exacerbated  by  stress,. overthinking, or sensory overload, and often seen in individuals with a history of anxiety disorders,. neurological sensitivity, or substance-related issues. The remedy is particularly relevant for those. with a nervous, introspective constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like headaches. or tremors alongside emotional traits like fearfulness or detachment, commonly observed in young. adults  with  anxiety,  professionals  with  mental  overload,  or  patients  with  chronic  neurological. complaints. Cannabis indica (Indian Hemp) 466.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Mental  exertion,  darkness,  night,  stress,  sensory  overload  (noise,  light),. stimulants (caffeine, alcohol), cold, damp weather, isolation, overthinking, warm rooms,. sudden movement.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Remarkable hallucinations and imagi nations.
- Exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of 
space.
- Misperceptions of time and space.
- Time seems too lon g, seconds seem ages.
- A few miles an 
immense distance.
- Heat and cold sensations of the body.
- Loss of identity.
- Clairvoyance.
- Imagines himself in 
a room of which the 
walls gradually close in upon him.
- Double consciousness, subconscious or dual nature state.
- Absent-minded.
- Poor short-term memory.
- Poor concentration and foggy mind.
- Sudden loss of memory.
- Inability to fix his thoughts on one subject.
- Forgets what he intends to write or speak.
- Sudden loss of speech, 
begins a sentence but cannot finish it.
- Lazy but restless.
- Chronic insomnia due to over activity of the mind.
- Drug-induced spaciness, pathologically happy state.
- Full of fun, mischief and laughs.
- Uncontrollable 
laughter.
- Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles.
- Emotional excitement, rapid ch ange of moods.
- Exaltation of spirits  with excessive loquacity.
- Stammering 
and stuttering.
- Constantly theorizing.
- Fixed ideas.
- Ideas crowd upon each other.
- Lost in thoughts.
- Great agitation, anxiety and nervousness.
- Mania, must constantly move.
- Panic attac ks, paranoia.
- Anguish, 
better in the open air.
- Constant fear of becoming insane.
- Horror of darkness.
- Fear of approaching death.
- Depression, constant fear of becoming insane.
- Abdomen - Throbbing here and there.
- Rumbling in bowels at night.
- Flatulence, on r ising in morning, with headache.
- The abdomen feels swollen, 
better by belching.
- Sensation of extreme tension in abdominal vessels feel distended to bursting.
- Sensation 
as if something alive in abdomen (Thuj.).
- Remarkable hallucinations and imagi nations.
- Exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of 
space.
- Misperceptions of time and space.
- Time seems too lon g, seconds seem ages.
- A few miles an 
immense distance.
- Heat and cold sensations of the body.
- Loss of identity.
- Clairvoyance.
- Imagines himself in 
a room of which the 
walls gradually close in upon him.
- Double consciousness, subconscious or dual nature state.
- Absent-minded.
- Poor short-term memory.
- Poor concentration and foggy mind.
- Sudden loss of memory.
- Inability to fix his thoughts on one subject.
- Forgets what he intends to write or speak.
- Sudden loss of speech, 
begins a sentence but cannot finish it.
- Lazy but restless.
- Chronic insomnia due to over activity of the mind.
- Drug-induced spaciness, pathologically happy state.
- Full of fun, mischief and laughs.
- Uncontrollable 
laughter.
- Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles.
- Emotional excitement, rapid ch ange of moods.
- Exaltation of spirits  with excessive loquacity.
- Stammering 
and stuttering.
- Constantly theorizing.
- Fixed ideas.
- Ideas crowd upon each other.
- Lost in thoughts.
- Great agitation, anxiety and nervousness.
- Mania, must constantly move.
- Panic attac ks, paranoia.
- Anguish, 
better in the open air.
- Constant fear of becoming insane.
- Horror of darkness.
- Fear of approaching death.
- Depression, constant fear of becoming insane.
- Abdomen - Throbbing here and there.
- Rumbling in bowels at night.
- Flatulence, on r ising in morning, with headache.
- The abdomen feels swollen, 
better by belching.
- Sensation of extreme tension in abdominal vessels feel distended to bursting.
- Sensation 
as if something alive in abdomen (Thuj.).

### Vertigo
- Chronic vertigo, as of floating off the ground.
- Worse on rising with stunning pain in back part of head.
- Sensation as if the room were falling in pieces about her.
- COMMENTS - Cann-i.
- inhibits the higher faculties 
and stimulates the imagination to a remarkable degree.
- A major remedy for drug flashbacks, fears, phobias or 
panic attacks since a drug overdose.
- DTs.
- Clairvoyance and clairaudience.
- A condition of intense exaltation in whic h all perceptions and conceptions, all sensations and emotions are 
exaggerated to the utmost degree.
- Hypersensitivity of all the senses.
- Extreme sensitivity to noise, can hear a 
whisper in adjoining room and is irritated from it.
- Startles easily.
- Fear of loss of control.
- Sensation of levitation.
- Sensation as if in a dream.
- Vertigo on rising with stunning pain in back part of head.
- Cann-i.
- removed a vertigo in which the patient felt as if the house were falling in ruins about her.
- Starting, talking, nightmar es, during sleep.
- Grinds teeth while asleep.
- Wants to sleep but cannot (Gels.).
- Palpitations, awakens from sleep.
- Stitches in heart with oppression, better deep breathing.
- Dryness of the mouth.
- Stammering and stuttering.
- Thirst for cold water, worse warm, stuffy rooms.
- Craves 
sweets.
- Useful when treating hypoglycemia related to smoking marijuana.
- Affects the urinary and generative organs.
- History of kidney problems, cystitis, or gonorrhea.
- Constant dull 
pain in region of right kidney.
- Pains in kidneys when laughing.
- Sensation in anus as if sitting on a ball, as if 
anus and part of urethra were filled by a hard, round body.
- Frequent urination with burning pain in evening.
- Urging and straining, but cannot pass a drop.
- Burning, scalding 
or stinging in urethra before during and after urination.
- Dribbling of urine (Thuj., Sabah, Sep.).
- Urine loaded 
with slimy mucus after exposure to damp and cold.
- Backache worse during menses, which occur every two weeks and are scanty.
- Very profuse, painful, dark 
menstruation, but without clots.
- Tendency to get vaginitis.
- Catalepsy.
- Tingling of paralyzed parts.
- Paralysis of lower limbs and right arm.
- Muscle cramps and weak knees.
- Headache with flatulence, lasts until flatus can be passed up or down, throbbing of occiput.
- Scalp sore feeling, 
crawling on vertex, sensation as though skin tightly stretched over bones of face.
- Weight at occiput from which 
pains start up sides of head to temples and vertex.
- Warmth of spine extending to head.
- Sensation as of brain boiling over and lifti ng cranial arch like a lid, opening and shutting sensation.
- Shocks 
through brain on regaining consciousness.
- Guided by this symptom, Clarke removed a “noise like a crash or 
explosion during sleep.” 
Nash related the case of a woman suffering from cardiac dr opsy, who, when relieved of the latter, suddenly 
lost the power of speech.
- In answer to a question she could begin a 
sentence, but could not finish it as she could not remember what she wished to say.
- She was very impatient 
about it, would cry, but could not finish the sentence, though she could signify assent if any one did finish it for 
her.
- Cann-i.
- cured rapidly.
- In one case of overdose the observer experienced a modification of this: absolute forgetfulness of the thought, 
speech or acts of the previous moment, startled by hearing the echo of the last words of a sentence he has 
just spoken.
- Having suggested a walk to a companion and meeting him at the street door, wondered why they 
were there.
- Afterwards, he could remember everything.
- RELATIONS - Compare: (1) Cann-s., Bell., Hyos., 
Stram., Lach., Agar.
- (2) Anhalon.
- - time sense disordered, time periods enormously overestimated, thus, 
minutes seem hours.
- (3) Cann -s.
- - in extreme sensitiveness to noise.
- (4) Nit -ac.
- - to jarring and rumbling of 
wagon in street.
- (5) Coff.
- - to all sounds.
- Borax - slightest noise, fall of door latch, rumpling of paper, rustling 
of silk.
- (6) Asar.
- - to scratching of linen or silk or even the thought of it.
- (7) Levitation -Asar., Calc., Cocc., Ph-
ac., Sil., Stict., Sulph., Thuj.
- (8) Asif in adream - Ambr., Anae., Calc., Con., Cupr., Med., Rheum., Stram., 
Valer., Verat., Zinc.
- (9) Horror of darkness - Am-m., Bar-c., Calc., Carb-an., Phos., Stram., Stroph., Valer.
- (10) 
Noise like a crash or explosion in head - Aloe.

### Head
- Violent headaches and hallucina tions.
- Vertex seems to open and shut, worse noise.
- Head seems 
separated from the body.
- Feels as if top of head were opening and shutting.
- Shocks through brain (Aloe., 
Coca.).
- Involuntary shaking of head.
- Uremic headache.
- Headache with flatulence.
- Migraine attack preceded 
by unusual excitement with loquacity.
- Pain in the whole right side of the head.
- Throbbing and weight at occiput.
- Heavy pressure on the brain, forcing him to stoop.
- Dull, heavy, throbbing pain with sensation as from a blow, 
on back of head and neck.
- Violent headaches and hallucina tions.
- Vertex seems to open and shut, worse noise.
- Head seems 
separated from the body.
- Feels as if top of head were opening and shutting.
- Shocks through brain (Aloe., 
Coca.).
- Involuntary shaking of head.
- Uremic headache.
- Headache with flatulence.
- Migraine attack preceded 
by unusual excitement with loquacity.
- Pain in the whole right side of the head.
- Throbbing and weight at occiput.
- Heavy pressure on the brain, forcing him to stoop.
- Dull, heavy, throbbing pain with sensation as from a blow, 
on back of head and neck.

### Eyes
- Eyes bright and shiny.
- Injection of vessels of conjunctiva of both eyes.
- Glaucoma.
- Jerking in corner of 
the eye and eyelids.
- Fixed gaze.
- Weak vision.
- Twinkling, trembling and glimmering before the eyes.
- Letters 
run together when reading.
- Sees objects outside of visual field.
- Visual clairvoyance.

### Ears
- Aching, throbbing and fullness in both ears.
- Extreme sensitiveness to noise, very acute hearing.
- Noise 
like boiling water, buzzing and ringing.
- Periodical singing in the ears during a dreamy spell, ceasing when he 
came to himself.

### Face
- Dejected, careworn, wearied, ex hausted appearance.
- Drowsy, stupid look.
- Skin of face, especially of 
forehead and chin, feels as if drawn tight.

### Mouth
- Gritting and grinding of teeth while sleeping.
- Tongue is white, thick, frothy and sticky saliva.
- Dryness of the mouth and lips.
- Lips feel as if glued to gether.
- Every article of food is extremely palatable.
- Stammering and stuttering speech.

### Throat
- Throat is parched, accompanied by intense thirst for cold water.

### Chest
- Oppression of chest with deep, labored breathing.
- Feels suffocated, has to be fanned.
- Palpitations, awaking from sleep.
- Piercing pain with great oppression.
- Pulse very slow (Dig., Kalm., 
Apoc.).
- Pressing pain in the heart with dyspnea the whole night.
- Sensation as if drop s were falling from the 
heart.
- Stitches in the heart, accompanied by great oppression, the latter relieved by deep breathing.
- Kidneys - Dull pain in region of right kid ney.
- Pain in the kidneys when laughing.
- Bunting, aching or sharp 
stitches in the 
kidneys.
- Urging to urinate, but cannot pass a drop.
- Must wait some time before the urine flows, strain.
- The 
 
 
urine dribbles out after the stream ceases.
- Must force out the last few drops with the hand.
- Profuse, colorless 
urine, can have mucus.
- A white glairy muc us may be squeezed from the urethra.
- Burning and scalding or 
stinging pain in the urethra before, during, and after urination.
- Humid asthma.
- Chest oppressed with deep, labored breathing.
- Rough cough with scraping 
immediately under the sternum.
- Great effort to take a deep inspiration.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pain in the cardiac orifice, relieved by pressure.
- Suffocative feeling while eating.
- Distention.
- Pyloric 
spasm.
- Temperature - Loss of vital heat.
- General chilliness.
- Coldness of the face, nose and hands after dinner.
- Profuse sticky sweat, standing out in drops on his forehead.
- Increased appetite.
- Ravenous hunger.
- Craves sweets.
- Very thirsty for cold drinks.

### Urinary & Genital
- Sexual desire increased.
- Satyriasis, priapism.
- Prolonged thrill.
- Erections not caused by amorous 
thoughts.
- Violent painful erections.
- Backache after sexual intercourse.
- Oozing of white, glairy mucus from 
glans.
- Chordee.
- Sensation of  swelling in perineum or near anus, as if sitting on a ball.
- Penis relaxed and 
shrunken.
- Itching in the glans penis.
- Sharp pricking like needles in urethra, so severe as to send a thrill to 
cheeks and hands.
- Gonor rhea without pain with a very profuse yel lowish-white discharge.
- Feeling as if 
discharge in urethra.
- Menses with violent uterine colic with dysuria.
- Menses profuse,  dark, painful, without clots.
- Backache during menses.
- Spasmodic uterine pains return ing like labor pains, great agitation and 
sleeplessness.
- Sexual desire increased in infertile women or with dysmenor rhea.
- Infertility (Bor., Sep.).
- Threatened miscarriage in eighth month, burning on urination with purulent discharge.

### Extremities
- Muscle  spasms  or  cramps,  with  stiffness  or  twitching,  resembling  dystonia  or.
- fibromyalgia, worse with stress, fatigue, or cold.
- Neuralgic pains in muscles or joints, with burning or aching, resembling myofascial.
- pain syndrome, aggravated by mental strain or exertion.
- Tremors or shakiness, particularly in the hands, resembling essential tremor, worse.
- with anxiety or stimulants.
- Weakness or heaviness in limbs, with a sensation of fatigue, worse after exertion or.
- mental overload.
- Systemic:.
- Chronic fatigue or nervous exhaustion, with a sensation of depletion, resembling.
- chronic fatigue syndrome or neurasthenia, worse after mental or physical exertion.
- Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp weather and a desire for warmth or.
- dry conditions.
- Profuse,  cold,  or  clammy  sweating,  particularly  during  anxiety,  pain,  or  sleep.
- episodes, worse at night or in stressful conditions.
- Tendency to palpitations or irregular heartbeat, resembling paroxysmal tachycardia,.
- worse with anxiety or stimulants.

### Neck & Back
- Backache, worse during menses, which occur every two weeks and are scanty.
- Warmth in spine 
extending to head.
- Torticollis, chin drawn to the sternum.
- Pain across shoulders and spine, must stoop, 
cannot walk erect.
- Breasts - Stitches extending from both nipples through chest.

### Skin
- Chronic fatigue or nervous exhaustion, with a sensation of depletion, resembling.
- chronic fatigue syndrome or neurasthenia, worse after mental or physical exertion.
- Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp weather and a desire for warmth or.
- dry conditions.
- Profuse,  cold,  or  clammy  sweating,  particularly  during  anxiety,  pain,  or  sleep.
- episodes, worse at night or in stressful conditions.
- Tendency to palpitations or irregular heartbeat, resembling paroxysmal tachycardia,.
- worse with anxiety or stimulants.

### Sleep
- Sleepy but cannot sleep.
- Chronic insomnia.
- Excessive sleepiness, sound sleep with melancholy 
dreams.
- Jerking of the limbs while sleeping, causing him to awake.
- Talks during sleeps.
- Gritting t eeth during 
sleep.
- Catalepsy.
- Nightmares every night as soon as he falls asleep.
- Dreams are prophetic, of dead bodies, 
danger and perils to be encountered.
- Erotic dreams with erection and profuse seminal emission.