# Cannabis Sativa

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Cann-s. seems to affe ct especially the urinary and sexual organs. Acute and chronic 
gonorrhea, especially when the patient walks with the legs apart. Sexual excitement  in both the sexes. 
Threatened miscarriage from too frequent sexual intercourse or complicated with gonorrhea . Vaginitis. 
Characteristic sensations as of dropping water. Choking in swallowing, things go down the wrong way. Great 
fatigue from having spoken or written. Feels exhausted after a short walk. Feet feel heavy on go ing upstairs. 
Acute drawing and contractive, pressive pains with sensation of paralysis. Drawing pains in regions of kidneys 
extending into inguinal glands with anxious sensation of nausea at epigastrium.  
Tetanus, chiefly in the upper limbs and in the trunk. Paralysis with tingling of the affec ted part. Unendurable 
fine stitching over whole body, as from a thousand needle points, at night, when sweating from warm covering, 
better uncovering.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from fresh air. Better cold water. Better rest. Worse from urinating. Worse after a meal. 
Worse coffee, liquorortobacco. Worse darkness. Worse at night. Worse after midnight. Worse open air, and 
heat. Worse from exercise, exertion. Worse talking. Worse walking. Worse going upstairs. Worse touch. Worse 
lying down.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Confusion of thought and speech.
- Stuttering and stammering.
- Embarrassed speech, at one time 
words are wanting, at another the voicefails.
- Veryforgetful cannot finish the sentence.
- Vanishing of 
thoughts, want of words.
- Wavering speech, hasty, incoherent.
- Speech stops with anxiety and agony on 
account of pain in the back.
- Many errors in writing.
- Ideas seem to stand still, he stares in front of him is absorbed in higher thoughts, but in unconscious of them.
- Time seems too long.
- Thinks everything is unreal, as if in a dream.
- Voices including her own, seem to come 
from a distance, her own voice s-^ ems strange, as if it were somebody else 
speaking.
- Clairvoyance.
- Loquacity.
- Laughs immoderately, at mere trifles.
- Laughs and weeps.
- Ecstatic, heav enly.
- Fixed ideas.
- Mania, 
sometimes happy, sometimes serious or furious.
- Sadness and indifference.
- Irresolution and uncertainty.
- Moaning and crying.
- Disposition to be easily frightened or irritated.
- Fear of going to bed.
- Abdomen - Pain as 
from a bruise in the intestines.
- Hard and painful swelling of the liver region.
- Cramp-like pains in the epigastrium.
- Sensation of soreness.
- Shuddering sensation, as if cold water were running through abdomen.
- Painful jerks.
- Shaking of the intestines, as if they were detached, when the arms are moved.
- Shocks and pressure towards 
 
 
the outside in the regions of the groins.
- Pulsation of abdomen from within outward.
- Confusion of thought and speech.
- Stuttering and stammering.
- Embarrassed speech, at one time 
words are wanting, at another the voicefails.
- Veryforgetful cannot finish the sentence.
- Vanishing of 
thoughts, want of words.
- Wavering speech, hasty, incoherent.
- Speech stops with anxiety and agony on 
account of pain in the back.
- Many errors in writing.
- Ideas seem to stand still, he stares in front of him is absorbed in higher thoughts, but in unconscious of them.
- Time seems too long.
- Thinks everything is unreal, as if in a dream.
- Voices including her own, seem to come 
from a distance, her own voice s-^ ems strange, as if it were somebody else 
speaking.
- Clairvoyance.
- Loquacity.
- Laughs immoderately, at mere trifles.
- Laughs and weeps.
- Ecstatic, heav enly.
- Fixed ideas.
- Mania, 
sometimes happy, sometimes serious or furious.
- Sadness and indifference.
- Irresolution and uncertainty.
- Moaning and crying.
- Disposition to be easily frightened or irritated.
- Fear of going to bed.
- Abdomen - Pain as 
from a bruise in the intestines.
- Hard and painful swelling of the liver region.
- Cramp-like pains in the epigastrium.
- Sensation of soreness.
- Shuddering sensation, as if cold water were running through abdomen.
- Painful jerks.
- Shaking of the intestines, as if they were detached, when the arms are moved.
- Shocks and pressure towards 
 
 
the outside in the regions of the groins.
- Pulsation of abdomen from within outward.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, sensation of dropping wa ter on head.
- Attacks of vertigo on walking or when standing for 
some time to such an extent as to cause falling.
- Sensation as if intoxicated.
- COMMENTS - In Cann-i., the drug state is often the etiology, but Cann-s stands on its own.
- Closely related to 
Med.
- And Thuj., will often follow Med.
- Boericke said that lemon juice antidotes Cann -s.
- Strong affinity for the genital area and infections.
- High sex drive (Med.).
- Acute gonorrhea remedy, with 
spaciness and a history of drug use.
- Yellow-green discharges.
- Urethral symptoms with burning and smarting (Canth.
- has more tenesmus).
- Mucus in urine, burning on 
urination.
- The bladder feels full.
- Non -specific urethritis.
- Pain in right kidney.
- Cramps of any kind.
- The urethra 
is very sensitive to touch and pressure, the patient cannot bear the legs close together.
- Urethral caruncle.
- Phimosis.
- Dry mouth, craves sweets, thirst for cold water.
- Hypoglycemia.
- Sensitive to stimulants.
- Limbs feel weak and 
heavy.
- Glaucoma.
- Cataract and opacities of the cornea, g onorrhea of the eyes.
- Eyeballs aches, pressure in 
back of the eyes.
- Sudden changes from agitation to restless to calm.
- Distortion in perception, spacey, bad memory.
- Better with 
fresh, open air and cold water on their face.

### Head
- Headache, as if there were a stone pressing upon it.
- Sensation of a heav y weight on the vertex.
- Pressure and tension on the temples.
- Pressure on root of nose.
- Congestion in the head, throbbings in the 
brain, cheeks red and hot with pulsation.
- Sensation at the scalp, as if something were creeping on it and as if 
drops of cold water were falling on the head.
- Headache, as if there were a stone pressing upon it.
- Sensation of a heav y weight on the vertex.
- Pressure and tension on the temples.
- Pressure on root of nose.
- Congestion in the head, throbbings in the 
brain, cheeks red and hot with pulsation.
- Sensation at the scalp, as if something were creeping on it and as if 
drops of cold water were falling on the head.

### Eyes
- Glaucoma.
- Pressure from back of eyes, forward.
- Eyeballs ache.
- Cataract from ne rvous disturbances, 
abuse of alcohol and tobacco, patient feels deeply approaching blindness.
- Gonorrheal oph thalmia.
- Opacity 
of cornea.
- Scrofulous eye troubles (Sulph., Calc.).
- Cramp-like pulling in the eyes.
- Misty sight.
- Weakness and 
confusion of sight, on viewing objects either distant or near.
- Appearance of a circle of whitish flames before 
the eyes.

### Ears
- Throbbing and pressure in the ears, that disappears when one is stooping and reappearing when raising 
the head again.
- Hears voices, bells, music.
- Buzzing in the ears and sensation as if a skin were before them.

### Face
- Paleness of the face.
- Heat of the face and redness of the cheeks.
- Tingling, itching and smarting in the 
face, as if from salt.
- Twitching of the muscles of the face.

### Mouth
- Grinding of teeth in sleep.
- Dryness of the mouth  with viscid saliva and  absence of thirst.
- Saliva, 
white, thick, 
frothy.
- Eruption on the border of the lips.
- Nose - Swelling of the nose with copper- like redness.
- Stupefying pressure on the root of the nose.
- Heat and 
 
 
dryness of the nose.
- Nosebleed, preceded by a sensation of burning in the nose.

### Throat
- Cannot control voice.
- Loss of voice.
- Accumulation of tenacious mucus in the larynx with scraping and 
difficulty of breathing.

### Chest
- Weight on chest, rattling wheezing breathing.
- Shootings in the bottom of the chest, especially on 
breathing, speaking or during movement.
- Great anxiety of heart.
- Painful tension in the heart with palpitations of the heart and anxiety.
- Beatings 
of the heart, which are felt lower than their ordinary place.
- Pulse weak, slow and scarcely perceptible.
- Pericarditis.
- Inflammation of the heart.
- Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart.
- Kidneys - Inflamed sensation with soreness to touch.
- Acute gonorrhea,  urethra sensitive, walks with the 
legs apart.
- Kidney colic and pains.
- Pain in kidney, while laughing.
- Painful urging.
- Must strain to urinate, has to 
wait for some time before the urine flows, dribbles after flow ceases.
- Scanty burning urine passed drop by 
drop.
- Urination in split stream.
- Burning while urinating, extending to bladder.
- Urine scalding wit h 
spasmodic closure of sphincter.
- Stitches, zigzag pain along urethra.
- Urethral caruncle (Eucal.), phi mosis.
- Stoppage of urethra by mucus and pus.
- Discharge of yellow, watery mucus from the urethra (gonorrhea).Urine, 
turbid, white or reddish and as if mix ed with blood and pus.
- Incontinence of urine.
- Ejection of a kidney stone 
on urinating.
- Retained urine with constipation.
- Suffocative attacks.
- Humid asthma.
- Difficulty in breathing and palpitations, then must stand up.
- As 
if there were a weight on the chest, with wheezing and rattling in the bronchials.
- Difficulty of respiration with 
uneasiness in the throat, worse lying down.
- Rattling breathing .
- Inflammation of the lungs, with greenish 
vomiting and delirium.
- Cough with green viscid, bloody, expectoration.
- Cough, violent and dry.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Empty risings.
- Regurgitation of acrid substances of a bitter sourness.
- Attack of violent cramps in 
the stomach.
- Nausea with inclination for food.
- Vomiting with sensation of strangulation from the epigastrium to 
the throat.
- Vomiting of green bile.
- Pain in the stomach, on being touched, as if i t were ulcerated, better by 
eating.
- Aching, pinchings and cuttings in the epigastrium and in the upper part of the stomach.
- Temperature - Typhoid fevers, where strangury exists.
- Shuddering, shivering with thirst.
- Uneasiness and 
external cold.
- Coldness of t he body with heat in the face.
- Heat only in the face.
- Burning heat over the whole 
body at night.
- Desires sweets and cold drinks.
- Every article of food is extremely palatable.
- Aversion to meat, of 
which she was fond.

### Urinary & Genital
- Sexual desire increased.
- Priapism.
- Strong sexual desire or aversion to sex.
- Erections without amorous 
thoughts.
- Erections with tensive pains.
- Acute gonorrhea.
- Itching and inflammatory swelling of the prepuce, 
glans and penis with deep red ness and phimosis.
- The penis feels sore and burnt when walking, walks with 
legs apart.
- Cold genitals.
- Dragging, aching in the t estes and tension in the spermatic cord, when standing 
upright.
- Swelling of the prostate gland.
- Acute gonorrhea.
- Threatened abortion, complicated with gonorrhea or on account of frequent 
sexual inter course.
- Leucorrhea.
- Infantile leucorrhea.
- Amenorrhea, also with constipation.
- Profuse 
menstruation.
- Miscarriage with convulsions.
- Great sexual excitement with infertility.

### Extremities
- Pain in the limbs, worse deep breathing.
- Pain, as from a bruise in the shoulder and forearm during 
movement.
- Entire paralysis of lower limbs.
- Cramps in the thighs, the calves of the legs and the hams.
- Weakness, staggering and pains of the knees.
- Displacement of the patella on going up the stairs.
- Pulsation 
and stretching pain in the feet and in the joints of the foot, as after a  long walk.
- Spasmodic contraction of the 
Achilles tendon with violent pains.
- Cramps in the hands and the fingers.
- Sudden paralytic weakness of the 
hand with trembling on laying hold of an object and inability to hold it firmly.

### Neck & Back
- Pains in the back, which impede speech and suspend respiration.
- Shooting pains between the shoulder 
blades.
- Pressure towards the outside in the sacral region and coccyx.

### Skin
- At night, pricking and sensation of burning over the whole skin, as if from boiling water .

### Sleep
- Sleepy, but cannot sleep.
- Frightful or erotic dreams.
- Dreams of the dead.
- Sensation of greater fatigue 
on waking in the morning, then when going to bed in the evening.
- Sleepy during the day.

### Generalities
- As if hot water were poured over h im.
- As if drops of cold water were falling on the head, 
from anus, or from heart.
- As if pinched with pincers in back.
- Pressure as with a sharp point in coccyx.