Cannabis sativa

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

Hemp

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General

Seems to affect especially the urinary, sexual, and respiratory organs. It has characteristic sensations as of dropping water. Great fatigue, as from over- exertion; weary after meals. Choking in swallowing; things go down the wrong way. Stuttering. Confusion of thought and speech. Wavering speech. Wavering speech, hasty, incoherent.

Modalities

Worse, lying down; going upstairs.

Head

Lectophobia. Vertigo; sensation of dropping water on head. Pressure on root of nose.

Eyes

Opacity of cornea. Cataract from nervous disturbances, abuse of alcohol and tobacco; patient feels deeply approaching blindness. Misty sight. Pressure from back of eyes, forward. Gonorrhœal ophthalmia. Eyeballs ache. Scrofulous eye troubles (Sulph; Calc).

Urinary

Retained, with obstinate constipation. Painful urging. Micturition in split stream. Stitches in urethra. Inflamed sensation, with soreness to touch. Burning while urinating, extending to bladder. Urine scalding, with spasmodic closure of sphincter. Gonorrhœa, acute stage; urethra very sensitive. Walks with legs apart. Dragging in testicles. Zigzag pain along urethra. Sexual overexcitement. Urethral caruncle (Eucalypt), phimosis. Stoppage of urethra by mucus and pus.

Female

Amenorrhœa when physical powers have been overtaxed, also with constipation.

Respiratory

Oppression of breathing and palpitation; must stand up. Weight on chest; rattling wheezing breathing. Cough, with green viscid, also bloody, expectoration.

Heart

Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart. Painful strokes and tension with palpitation. Pericarditis.

Extremities

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.

Sleep

Frightful dreams. More tired in morning. Sleepy during day.

Relationships

Antidotes: Camph; Lemon juice. Compare: Hedysarum-Brazilian Burdock––(Gonorrhœa and inflammation of penis); Canth; Apis; Copaiva; Thuj; Kal nit.

Dose

Tincture to third attenuation. In stuttering the 30th.

What the other books say about Cannabis sativa

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Cannabis sativa in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Cannabis sativa in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Cannabis sativa — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/cannabis-sativa. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.