CANNABIS SATIVA.
ABDOMEN.
► Hypochondria.
► Painful hard swelling of the right hypochondrium, [11]. [Liver found diseased, post mortem.] ► *Dull sticking in the left side, just below the ribs, when breathing
and when not, [3]. ►
Beating as with a hammer in the left side below the lowest ribs, extending towards the back,
[3]. ► Umbilical.
► Several mornings, from eight to ten, sensation below
the navel as if he had taken cold, with movings in the abdomen, though without diarrhœa, [1]. ► Pain on the left
side near the navel, and also posteriorly near the spine, as if the parts were pinched and
compressed by pincers, [3]. ►
Griping just above the navel (after eating), [3]. ► Pain in the right side near the navel like a beating from
within outward, [3]. ►
General Abdomen. [180.] ►
[Sacklike swelling of the abdomen without swelling of the legs or feet], [11]. [Subject of S. 322, found on post-mortem to be due to spinal
incurvation; this occurred eight days before death.] ►
Complete loss of tone of the intestines; even the strongest cathartics in the largest doses
did not suffice to overcome it, [17]. ► Shaking of the intestines in the abdomen, on violent motion
of the arms, as if the intestines were quite loose, [2].
► Movings in the abdomen, followed by dull stitches in
the left side extending to the ear, [3]. ► Incarcerated flatus in the upper and lower abdomen, lasting
until evening, with colic pains, [9]. ► Noisy passage of flatus in the morning, [15]. ► Pain in the abdomen,
cutting; did not stop after rubbing, and only diminished after drinking cold water, [15a]. ► Slight pain
always before stool, as if before the menses, [15a]. ► Fulness of the abdomen, which compelled deep breathing, [1]. ► Pinching in the
abdomen as if to stool (after half an hour), [15]. [190.] ► Griping in the whole
abdomen, [3]. ►
Colic-like pains in the upper abdomen, followed by diarrhœa-like stool and smarting pain in
the anus, [9]. ► A
stitch from within outward in the sides of the abdomen, [2].
► Dull stitches in both sides of the abdomen in the
evening, in bed, they then extend up the back and stitch in like manner between the
shoulder-blades, and again extend downward along the sides of the abdomen, [3]. ► Transient pinching stitches
in the abdomen, [3]. ►
All the intestines pain as if bruised, [2]. ► [The abdomen and chest are painful externally], [11]. [As. S. 132.] ►
Anxious throbbing in the upper abdomen like a strong pulsation, [3]. ► Shivering in the abdomen as
from the moving of cold water in it (after eight minutes), [6].
► Sharp shocks in the sides of the abdomen just below the
ribs, [3]. [200.] ► *Painful jerks in the abdomen, moving from one place to
another, as if something living were in it, accompanied
by drawing from the left hip-bone across to the right and thence into the knee; still
however the pain remained in the hip, where it seemed like a tearing, pushing pain, [3]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac
Regions. ► Griping in the lower abdomen and
cutting in the loins, [3]. ►
Tickling sensation in the parietes of the lower abdomen (after half an hour), [6]. ► Sensitive shocks above the
left groin, [3]. ►
Pain and pressing outward in the abdominal ring as if the parts would suppurate, [2].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► *A pressing
in the rectum and sacral region as if the intestines were sinking down and would be pressed
out while sitting, [2]. ► Sticking in the rectum, with a kind of contraction of the
sphincter; often during the day, especially when walking (first day), [15]. ► *Constrictive pain in the
anus, together with a sensation as if the thighs were drawn together, so that she was
obliged to close them, [3]. ► Sensation in the anus as if something trickled out on to the
skin which was cold, [2]. ►
Urgency to stool after dinner; later, itching in the rectum with slight stitches in it, [15]. [210.] ► Woke up at 6 with desire to stool; went twice but only passed
very much noisy flatus; urgency to stool continued. After taking a cup of coffee and smoking
a pipe the sensation of disagreeable urgency ceased, and a somewhat hard stool succeeded;
but nausea and inclination to vomit set in, that was only allayed by keeping quiet, [15]. ► Urgency to stool;
tenesmus and urinating continued, so that he could hardly walk. After coffee and a pipe of
tobacco some evacuation of crumbling stool, and decrease of the symptoms, but he was soon
obliged to vomit up the coffee, which was strongly mixed with mucus, [15].
STOOL.
► The usually
regular stool appears irregularly, sometimes mornings, sometimes afternoons, sometimes
evenings, usually with a kind of tenesmus; only a little is evacuated by straining, and a
sensation of tenesmus remains after it. Sometimes he is suddenly urged to stool, and
forcibly evacuates a pappy or rather liquid substance with relief, [15]. ► Stool sometimes like
diarrhœa, sometimes hard, [15a]. ► Stool quite thin and yellowish; she thought it was flatus but
passed this stool, [15a]. ►
Stool scanty, crumbling, with passage of flatus, [15].
► The usual stool for the first five days; for the next
two days it was completely suppressed, [3].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Kidneys.
► *Drawing pain in the region of the kidney extending into
the inguinal glands, with anxious nauseous sensation in the pit of the stomach, [1]. ► Pain in the region
of the kidneys as if ulcerated, when touched and when touched and when not, [2]. ► Urethra. ► Orifice of the urethra somewhat inflamed, painful, and
somewhat hard to the touch, [15]. [220.] ► Painless mucous
discharge from the urethra (a beginning of gonorrhœa?), [1].
► Painless discharge of clear, transparent mucus from the
urethra, violent erections, [2]. ►
Watery mucous discharge from the urethra, [4]. ► The orifice of the urethra was agglutinated by moisture, with
could be seen by pressing it out, [5]. ►► *Pain extending from the orifice of the urethra backward,
burning-biting, posteriorly more sticking, while urinating, [1]. ►► *The urethra feels
inflamed and sore to touch along its whole length; during erections, tensive pain,
[1]. ►► *Burning
while urinating, but especially just after urinating, [1]. ► Burning while urinating,
but especially afterward; worse in the evening, [1]. ► *Burning along the whole urethra, though only at the commencement
and end of urinating, [4]. ► While urinating, at first burning from the glans backward;
after urinating, a biting pain, [1]. [230.] ► Simple, but violent
burning in the forepart of the urethra, while passing urine, [1].
► *When not urinating, some burning pain in the forepart of
the urethra, which compels him to urinate almost constantly, even when there is no more
urine to pass, [1]. ►
Burning in the orifice of the urethra, while urinating, [1].
► *Pressure as if to urinate, especially in the forepart of
the urethra, when not urinating, [1]. ► Cutting pain in the forepart of the urethra, when urinating, [2]. ► *Stitches along the
urethra, when not urinating, [1]. ► Stitching in the end of the urethra, which is repeated
several times, but not on urinating, [18]. ► Burning stitches in the posterior portion of the urethra,
while urinating (after ten hours), [6]. ► *Jerking stitches in the posterior portion of the urethra, when
standing, [1]. ►
Itching-tickling stitches in the forepart of the urethra, [9].
[240.] ► *Tearing as if
in the fibres of the urethra in the form of a zigzag, [5]. ► Sticking-biting pain on
urinating; biting when not urinating, [1]. ► Very fine sticking-pricking in the forepart of the orifice of
the urethra, when not urinating, [2]. ► Itching in the urethra, [15].
► *Urging to urinate with pressive pain, [1]. ► Frequent desire to
urinate, with pressure and urgency, occasionally some burning; with the urine, especially
mornings, quite whey-like and turbid, [15]. ► Micturition. ► *The stream
of urine was forked, [1]. ► Less passage of urine than usual, [15a]. ► Enuresis; he is obliged
to urinate frequently at short intervals, and passes a large quantity of watery urine
(immediately), [3]. ►
[Difficulty in urinating; paralysis of the bladder (the urethra had at first to be evacuated
by the catheter, but afterwards this could not be done, became clogged by mucus and pus)], [11]. [In subject S. 180, eight days before death, after
paraplegia had lasted some time.] ► Urine. [250.] ► White turbid urine, [1]. ► Urine red and
turbid, [1]. ►
Urine full of fibres, as of mucus, with pus, [4].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Male.
► Coldness in the genitals, with warmth in the rest of
the body (on the same day, and lasting three days), [5].
► *The whole penis was swollen, without marked erections,
[4]. ► Erections
while coughing, followed by pain in the urethra, [1]. ► Frequent erections during the day, only when sitting, not
when walking, [1]. ►
*Frequent erections, followed by stitches in the urethra, [1]. ► Mornings, in bed, excessive
erections without desire, and a cutting-sticking in the orifice of the urethra, [15]. ► He had an embrace
in the evening without desire, followed at night by excessive and painful erections that
roused him from sleep, [15]. [260.]
► Pain on the right side near the penis, like piercing
shocks, during rest and motion, [3]. ► Very indifferent to sexual intercourse during the day, but
after an embrace in the evening excessive erections followed in the morning, and again
frequently during the day, especially during the forenoon, [15].
► No proper erection during an embrace in the morning,
especially towards the last; scarcely perceives the ejaculation, [15]. ► *The whole penis is painful,
as if sore or burnt, when walking (he was obliged to have it suspended), [4]. ► Swelling of the
prostate gland, [1]. ►
Moisture about the corona glandis, [4]. ► The skin of the glans is covered with bright red spots of the
size of a pea, brighter than the glans itself, [4]. ► *The glans itself is dark-red, as dark as the prepuce, [4]. ► Swelling of the
glans and penis; a kind of insensible erection, [2]. ► Swelling of the frænum and the prepuce, especially were it
unites with the frænum, [5]. [270.]
► The whole prepuce is dark-red, hot, and inflamed, [4]. ► Swelling of the
right side and lower portion of the prepuce, [4]. ► Constant burning of the whole prepuce and glans for four
days; applications of cold water caused smarting, [4].
► Corrosive burning and sticking in the outer parts of
the prepuce and the urethra, in the region of the corona glandis, [2]. ► Smarting on the border and
inner side of the prepuce, [4]. ►
The margin of the prepuce is sore, [4]. ► An itching beneath the prepuce and on the frænum, with some
redness and moisture behind the corona glandis, [5]. ► Agreeable itching on the border of the prepuce and in the
orifice of the urethra, [9]. ►
Disagreeable itching on the right side of the prepuce near the anterior margin, more
internally, but becoming agreeable during and after scratching, [4]. ► *A pressive sensation in the
testicles when standing, a dragging in them, [1].
[280.] ► A worrying
sensation in the left testicle; the epididymis and spermatic cord seem to swell and divide
into various small lumps like soft beans, and to fill out the somewhat drooping scrotum.
This worrying pain is felt only when walking (first day, afternoon), [15]. ► A tensive pain in the
spermatic cord, and contraction of the scrotum, with a contractive sensation in it when
standing, [1]. ►
*It excites sexual desire in men and animals, [10]. ► Aversion to coition, [4].
► Female. ►
Miscarriage at the eighth month, with frightful convulsions, [12].
[From lying all day on fresh hemp, preceded by S. 45.] ►
Needle-like stitches in the right side of the mons veneris, [9].
► Leucorrhœa, as usual, before the menses, [15a]. ► She experiences
much pleasure during an embrace, [15a]. ► An itching-sticking in the vagina, and a good deal of
leucorrhœa after an embrace, [15a]. ► Very profuse menstruation (from external applications), [12]. [290.] ► [The sexual desire was excited but sterility caused], [13]. [See “Authorities.”] ►
Some desire during the morning sleep, but no pleasure during an embrace, [15a]. ► Sexual excitement without
desire; afterwards very much out of sorts, with aversion to sexual intercourse, [15a].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Trachea.
► *In the morning, tough mucus in the lower portion of the
trachea, which cannot be dislodged by coughing and hawking; he makes great exertions, but
only loosens a little, and even this does not come into the mouth, but he is obliged to
swallow it; after hawking and coughing a scraping sensation remains in the trachea, as if it
were raw and sore; finally the mucus loosens itself, and he is obliged to hawk it up
repeatedly, [3]. ►
Towards the seventh day, the previously tenacious mucus is easily loosened in the morning,
and the difficulty of breathing, which she had felt up to this if time (as if a load were
lying upon the chest), was immediately relieved, [3]. ► Voice. ► The voice is
raised, with unusual anxiety and complaint of pain in the back, [2]. ► [Voice changed, more like a
clangor than the human voice], [11]. [Local effect.] ► Voice frequently inaudible, [16].
► Cough. ►
Cough, [18]. ►
[Constant cough], [14]. [Local effect.] [300.] ► Dry, very violent
cough, [12]. ► *A
hacking cough arises at times from the pit of the throat, with which a cold salty fluid is
felt deep down in the throat, [7]. ► [Expiration causes cough], [11].
[See note to S. 311.] ► Respiration. ► [Respiration very much impeded], [11]. [Part of S. 311.] ►
[Difficult inspiration, without expectoration], [11].
[Subject of S. 312; being tired with carrying a burden, he had Ss. 321, 449, and came into
the hospital with this dyspnœa; died of phrenitis; see Hahnemann’s note to S. 1.] ► [Dyspnœa], [14]. ► Oppression of breathing, and pressive pain over whole chest, [16]. ► *Oppression of
breathing, from tensive-pressive pains in the middle of the sternum, which was also sore to
touch, together with sleepiness, [1]. ► Oppressed breathing; he feels anxiety in the chest, with
stitches between the shoulder-blades; is obliged to sit down, which relieves it; increased
after dinner (after ten days), [15]. ► Breathing was difficult; a weight seemed to lie upon her
chest, [3]. [310.]
► [Difficult breathing on lying down], [11]. [See note S. 163.] ►
[Orthopnœa; he was only able to breathe with the neck stretched upward, with whistling in
the trachea and with great distension of the abdomen], [11].
[A man convalescing from an acute fever, after irregularities in food and drink and long
handling of hemp, had this with Ss. 303, 132, 137, 196, and 302.]
CHEST.
► [Inflammation of
the chest and lungs six or seven times), [11]. [Local
effect.] ► [Inflammation of the lungs, with delirium], [11]. [As S. 312.] ►
[Inflammation of the lungs, with vomiting of green, bilious substances], [11]. [As S. 312.] ► *The chest feels
oppressed, with a sensation of apprehension in the throat; she is obliged to breathe deeply,
[3]. ► Cutting
across the external parietes of the chest, [2]. ► Stitches in the external parietes of the chest, [2]. ► Chest rough,
scratchy, and dry, [15]. ►
Early in the morning, a sensation of scraping in the chest as from salt; she is obliged to
hawk to loosen something, which she swallows, because it is not raised into the mouth, [3]. [320.] ► The male nipple becomes inflamed, itches, and is painful to
the touch; beside the nipple a mattery pimple, that heals without opening, with the nipple, [15]. ► [Pain like needle
stitches in the left nipple], [11]. [See note to S.
304.] ► Front. ►
[An elevation and a nodule on the ensiform cartilage, which for two years had remained
painless, afterwards caused difficulty in breathing], [11].
[See not to S. 180.] ► Violent pinching under the sternum
in the lower portion of the chest, which does not hinder breathing; it was relieved on
bending backward, and was most violent on bending forward, when it was worse on inspiration,
[3]. ► *A digging
beneath the upper part of the sternum, without oppression of the breath, [3]. ► A sensation of
hammering beneath one of the cartilages of the ribs, near the sternum, [3]. ► Sides. ► A tensive confusion of the left half of the chest, with
slight jerkings, palpitation, and anxiety, [3]. ► Drawing pain in the left lowest ribs, [2]. ► A pushing, as with
intermitting dull stitches, a kind of pressing inward in the left side of the chest, without
oppression of breathing, [3]. ►
Pushings or beatings in both sides of the chest, which frequently return and arrest the
breathing; they are most painful in the region of the heart, [1].
[330.] ►
Burning-sticking pain in the left side near the ensiform cartilage, [9]. ► Throbbing against the ribs
in the left side, [3].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Præcordium.
► Pain in the region of the heart, [11]. [See note to S. 163.] ► Heart’s
Action. ► Pulsations of the heart felt below
the natural limits, [11]. [See note to S. 163.] ► *On moving the body and on stooping, a few violent beatings at the
heart, as if it would fall out, together with a warm sensation about the heart
(after forty-eight hours), [1]. ►
Sudden, violent palpitation, [16]. ► Pulse. ► Very small
pulse, [11]. [See note to S. 163.] ► Slow, scarcely perceptible pulse, [6].
NECK AND BACK.
► Neck.
► Drawing in the neck, extending upward into the cervical
vertebræ, [2]. ►
Drawing from the neck to the ear, more like a pinching, externally, [3]. [340.] ►
Painful pressure in the cervical muscles above the throat, [3].
► Stitches in the lowest portion of the neck, as with a
knife, [2]. ► Back.
► The pain in the back frequently arrested breathing, [2]. ► Dorsal. ► Burning beneath the right shoulder-blade, [2]. ► An itching fine stitch in
the right side near the shoulder-blade, which disappears after scratching, [3]. ► (In the lower dorsal
vertebræ a heavy pressure and fine sticking pain (lasting fifty days), which sometimes
extended down to the loins or towards the shoulder-blades), [11].
[See note to S. 180.] ► Lumbar. ► Pain in the middle of the back, as if one were pinched with
pincers, which extends towards the abdomen, [2]. ► Slow, intermitting, dull stitches in the left side of the
back, beneath the lowest ribs, [3]. ► Severe pain in the small of the small of the back, especially
aggravated after the slightest exertion, and obliging him to sit down and rest, [17]. ► Sacral. ► Pressure on the coccyx, as with a dull point, [3]. [350.] ►
Pain on the left side near the coccyx in the bone, as if some hard body pressed forcible
against this part, [3].® 2000
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